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Blackpool Football Club Stadium,Seasiders Way,Blackpool,FY1 6JJ
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Interesting call for inquiry into Oyston, Pendry and Hall by Slog:
Stuart Hall has been branded an ‘opportunistic predator’ after admitting his crimes and may face jailThe ex-BBC North West newsreader last month admitted 14 counts of sex abuse on women and girls as young as nine.
On 5th May 2013 the Daily Star printed the headline ‘Stuart Hall was part of a Paedophile Group including a House of Lords Member‘
http://dux-bellorum.blogspot.com/2014/11/exaro-tim-pendry-lord-thomas-pendry.html
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
I think Hall is playing the fall guy for that MP turned peer who helped him with his filthy business.
‘his mates, including an MP who is now a Peer, she claims, helped Hall with his filthy hobby ‘ Who is that Peer ? !
I’m still waiting for MP-turned-Peer Tom Pendry to condemn Stuart Hall for rape.
The reference to a Peer/MP that disappeared from an Indie article within minutes. But which Peer helped Stuart Hall?
What did Tameside Council know about Stuart Hall’s raping of girls and are they aware of which MP/peer assisted him over decades?
Was the case of rape against Stuart Hall allowed to rest to protect a Labour MP/peer? @JReynoldsMP
Stuart Hall – Another Cover-up Is Happening Before Your Eyes
Can one private radio station in West Yorkshire have had associations with so many paedos and rapists? Is is really a coincidence?
Oyston homes in on Spain
23 November 2003
THE former chairman of Blackpool football club, one-time media baron and convicted rapist Owen Oyston has teamed up with a Labour peer to run a Spanish estate-agent.
Oyston, jailed for raping a 16-year-old model, has bought the firm in Marbella on the Costa del Sol. Since his release he has consistently protested his innocence.
The company, which specialises in selling luxury properties around the fashionable resort has been renamed Oyston Steel, and while Oyston is not one of the seven directors named at Companies House, he is the sole owner of the business.
The directors include Lord Pendry, the former Stalybridge and Hyde MP who once served as shadow sports minister. Pendry has been one of Oyston’s loyal supporters and in 1995 he accused two Conservative politicians of masterminding a dirty tricks campaign against him.
www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/article30569.ece
Millionaire rapist invited to a gala dinner by Labour
14 July 2007
A convicted rapist attended a fundraising dinner for the Labour Party this week, alongside Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and a string of celebrities.
Owen Oyston, who served three-and-a-half years in jail for attacking a 16-year-old girl, was invited by party chiefs to the £1,000-ahead event at Wembley Stadium.
The disgraced multi-millionaire businessman was filmed at the gala on Thursday which aimed to raise £500,000 to help plug the £20million hole in Labour’s finances.
Also on the guest list were Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468264/Millionaire-rapist-invited-gala-dinner-Labour.html
Neil Kinnock close friends with Owen Oyston
www.independent.co.uk/news/jokes-and-deals-as-philanderer-heads-for-jail-1348682.html
www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/lob34-03.htm
Millionaire Owen Oyston was accused of being a multiple rapist who helped run a sex ring. …four rapes, three indecent assaults and conspiracy to procure women for sex.
At the same time , model agency Peter Martin questioned about 19 alleged rapes and a conspiracy to procure young models for sex with others.
One time a close friend of Neil Kinnock, the former Labour leader, Owen Oyston (friends with Stuart Hall and Lord Pendry) was once one of the party’s biggest individual backers.
Franco the Magician is pictured with Lord Pendry at a recent charity function on behalf of the British Polio Foundation held in London
francomagic.co.uk/close_up_magic.htm
http://dux-bellorum.blogspot.com/2014/11/exaro-tim-pendry-lord-thomas-pendry.html
Tim Pendry is the Founder and Director of EXARO News.
Stuart Hall was convicted and jailed in 2013 for a string of serious sexual assaults on young girls one of whom was only 9 years old at the time she was attacked.
The Independent Newspaper reported about a letter from one of Stuart Hall’s victim’s:
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| Two local politicians and One convicted Paedophile |
Later he was elevated to the House of Lords when he became Lord Pendry of Stalybridge.
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| Lord Pendry and Hall on ‘It’s a knockout’ |
Wonder why Gin Goblin rushed to defend Stuart Hall, best buddy of Owen Oyston, financier of Denby’s Pennine Radio
Barbara Hewson protects paedo Stuart Hall. Hall is very close friend of Owen Oyston, the man who invested in her uncle’s Radio Pennine
Am I putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5 or did Hewson rush to Hall’s defence because he was a member of Denby’s set?
Hadn’t realised Daniel Janner was involved in Oyston and Martin and cross-examiner in Kevin O’Dowd rape trial.
187fleetstreet.com/index.php?pr=profile&ba_id=139&pa_id=6 …
Lord Janner’s family to ‘undermine’ sex abuse inquiry strand into their father after being given formal role in investigation
The family of Lord Janner yesterday vowed to ‘undermine from within’ the Government’s beleaguered child sex abuse inquiry after being given a formal role in the investigation.
1 February 2017
The family were granted core participant status which gives them access to documents and to have lawyers attend the inquiry’s hearings.
Claims that Daniel Janner was home when Greville brought child abuse victim home
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Has Denial Janner not noticed that there are at least 33 other victims of his father making similar claims? Has he forgotten that the CPS said several opportunities were missed to bring Bugger Janner to justice?
Anna Raccoon – supporter of Proctor et al
June 5 2017
AnnaClevelandRaccoon @AnnaRaccoon2017
That would mean spending precious time on it – and there are many good people, Laura Janner, Harvey Proctor, Kato Harris,who have repaid my support of them with nothing but kindness and continued support.
The deathbed candidate: The cancer-sufferer standing against Jeremy Corbyn in his own backyard
- Cancer sufferer Susanne Cameron-Blackie is standing in the General Election
- The 68-year-old political blogger wants to use her dying days to fight Labour
- Ms Cameron-Blackie will challenge Jeremy Corbyn for his seat in Islingto
Jeremy Corbyn claims the NHS isn’t safe in Tory hands. But the truth is, it’s not safe under Labour, either. The crisis that is threatening to destroy it gets deeper every day for reasons Corbyn hasn’t started to think about – and that’s why I’m running against him.’
Susanne Cameron-Blackie, better known as the political blogger Anna Raccoon, is speaking in her cottage kitchen, blessed with a stunning view across the Norfolk Broads. She is in a hospital bed, propped up by pillows. It is likely to be her death bed, her last resting place before the cancer that has ravaged her body finally claims her.
Yet it is from here that she will register this week as an independent candidate to fight Corbyn for his parliamentary seat in Islington North.
Susanne does not know whether she will survive until Election Day on June 8. But she is determined to use every moment she has left to fight Corbyn
On a bedside table are some of the drugs keeping at bay the agony caused by the cancer which has spread through much of her body: Fentanyl, a clinical form of heroin, and the animal tranquilliser ketamine. A team of nurses visits every day.
Susanne does not know whether she will survive until Election Day on June 8. But she is determined to use every moment she has left to fight Corbyn.
‘I may be the first parliamentary candidate forced to lie down, rather than stand, for office. But I’m determined to do something useful with what’s left of my life.
‘I’m taking on Corbyn in his political comfort zone. He talks about shaping the future. As things stand, the future for the NHS is to vanish up its own backside because of the money going on lawyers and damages.’
Her campaign is based on the urgent need for sweeping reform of the personal injury legal system, to safeguard the NHS from the crippling and ever-increasing burden of medical negligence lawsuits.
Last year, NHS Resolution, the body which handles such claims, revealed that cases arising from incidents up to the middle of 2016 are set to soak up a staggering £56 billion in lawyers’ fees and damages by the time they are settled – half NHS England’s annual budget.
Susanne, 68, has battled her illness, leiomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer, for six years. After almost killing her several times, it has now attacked her spine, rendering her immobile.
Susanne Nundy is the name used by British Libertarian blogger, Anna Raccoon, more popularly known for her posts about the Madeleine McCann and Hollie Greig stories
Nundy and Greg Watkins are alleged to have co-managed a disinformation campaign around the Hollie Greig case
Why did ‘Susanne Nundy’ or whoever she is – use the email address courtofprotection.co.uk?
The Court of Protection as it exists now, was set up by Jack Straw and New Labour in 2005 (created under the Mental Capacity Act 2005).
In the Inexorable choices‘ post Nundy says she was in office in 2003 (just as Blair ditched the office of Lord Chancellor) and yet in an email she sent me yesterday, Raccoon insists she had resigned the office in 2000 . But even Chris Carter, her replacement in 2004, insists she was working at this time.
Interestingly the email address alleged to have ‘outed’ Anna Raccoon (and I use the term cautiously) was left on a website for Old Scholars at St Christopher’s School in Letchworth, Hertfordshire – an old and respected boarding school set up by Beatrice Ensor – a close friend of Fabian Socialist and Freemason, Annie Besant and sponsored by Helena Blavtasky’s Theosophical Society.
I’m also finding it difficult to reconcile Susanne Nundy’s celebrated ‘Libertarian’ ideals with the idea of her working with such a crudely draconian, insidious and cheerfully Orwellian institution as the Court of Protection. I’ve seen her attempts to address this fairly awkward little paradox in her blog. She says it wasn’t an invention of ‘Nu Labour’ and Jack Straw – but that’s just being pedantic.
It had existed in one form or another for years, but New Labour extended its powers and its reach exponentially in 2005 (whilst simultaneously incapacitating the power of carers and relatives). It was rebranded, relaunched. According to a Daily Telegraph report, the Court of Protection’s expansion had been controversial’ not only for its extensive powers but also for the fact that almost all of its hearings take place in private‘.
Barbara Hewson, was a Court of Protection specialist
Susanne Nundy (Anna Raccoon) was Lord Chancellor’s Visitor for Wales. She worked in conjunction with the Court of Protection and the Public Trustee.
Moore Laine sounds like Anna Racoon who’s real name is Susanne Nundy but who uses her maiden name of Suzanne Cameron-Blackie
She uses a lot of names and works for M15. Her and her little group are specialist child abuse debunkers.
Raccoon attending Duncroft is not a surprise as I am told it was used to recruit highly intelligent but very seriously disturbed girls for work in the intelligence services.
http://parker-joseph.com/pjcjournal/2011/04/16/anna-raccoon-taken-at-face-value/
Crushed: Susanne, pictured above in her 20s, was a victim of medical negligence in 1973 when she was given a hysterectomy at the Westminster Hospital when she was admitted for a ‘dilation and curettage’, a minor operation used to deal with heavy periods
But she shows no sign of giving up. ‘No politician has ever tackled this issue, least of all Corbyn,’ she says. ‘All Labour talks about is the amount of money going in through the NHS’s front door – ignoring the haemorrhaging out the back.’
Just how pressing the issue is was brought home to Susanne last month. After spending days in the cancer high-dependency unit at the Norwich and Norfolk Hospital, she had been prescribed the Fentanyl and ketamine, but an error by a nurse meant she was given a tiny dose of a much weaker drug – a prescription meant for another patient.
She shudders at the memory. ‘I can’t even begin to describe the pain I was in,’ she says. ‘It was a descent into hell.’ No wonder: a scan revealed that the erosion of one of her vertebrae had left her spinal cord exposed.
But for Susanne, worse was to come. ‘Excruciating as it was, the mistake was recognised and put right. But afterwards, I had a visit from someone in the hospital’s legal department. She wanted to know if had I engaged a lawyer, and was I planning to sue?
‘I was flabbergasted. Why? What would be the point? I know why the mistake was made: because the nurses in that unit are rushed off their feet. If I were to sue, the only thing that would change would be my husband’s bank account in several years, long after I’m gone.
‘If I sued, I would be taking away yet more money from the NHS, so making it more likely that a future patient would endure a similar ordeal. This is the point Corbyn and Labour don’t get. They say they are socialists, yet they’re doing nothing about a system which treats the NHS as if it were a manufacturer making faulty products, instead of a provider of a vital social good.’
It wasn’t the first time Susanne had become a victim of medical negligence. In 1973, for reasons never explained, she was given a hysterectomy at the Westminster Hospital when she was admitted for a ‘dilation and curettage’, a minor operation used to deal with heavy periods.
‘I was only 23 – it left me psychologically crushed. Yet 45 years ago, people didn’t think of suing the NHS. One thing I do know is money would have made no difference. I picked myself up and moved on.’
It was not until she was in her 50s that she went to Aberystwyth University and obtained a double first in law. But by this time, she had spent years working for the Lord Chancellor’s department as an investigator for the Court of Protection, the tribunal which decides when people cannot administer their affairs through physical or mental incapacity.
‘As I thought about what had happened at the Norwich and Norfolk, I realised that through my work, I had witnessed some of the system’s worst abuses – in cases where incapacitated people were suing for medical negligence and getting enormous settlements. Then Mrs May announced the Election. I knew this was my chance.’
Among the most crucial reforms, she says, is the repeal of a 1948 law which means, bizarrely, that when patients sue the NHS, their damages are calculated on the basis they will pay for private healthcare for the rest of their lives – even though many will continue to be treated in the public sector, at public cost.
‘I saw this time and again,’ Susanne says. ‘Someone would get a huge settlement, but not fork out a penny on care. Meanwhile big awards, running into millions, are assessed on the basis that the beneficiary will live for several decades. But if they die a few years later, nothing goes back to the NHS. They can leave it to their relatives or a dogs’ home. This has to change.’
However, the biggest change she wants is more fundamental: an end to the legal lottery that means two patients with identical needs will be treated differently – one receiving millions, and the other nothing. ‘Take, for example, a cerebral palsy patient. The case will probably come down to something in the medical notes that a lawyer can argue means the midwife was absent for 19 minutes. These claims aren’t based on need, but on a narrow, legal definition of fault.
‘So they drag on for years. And it means a doctor or a hospital can never say sorry, which is all many patients want – because to do so will mean admitting liability.’
The last time the Government appointed a commission to examine this situation in 1978, it recommended a ‘no fault’ system be investigated.
Tomorrow, armed with the necessary ten local resident signatures and a campaign address in Mr Corbyn’s constituency, Susanne’s candidacy will be registered with the returning officer.
‘Just imagine: if some of the billions going to law firms and left legacies could be put into patient care, what a difference that would make. I will fight to my dying breath to make people – including Jeremy Corbyn – recognise this fact.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4480714/Cancer-sufferer-standing-against-Jeremy-Corbyn.html
Jimmy Savile’s Duncroft school victims set to sue Barnardo’s and Mind
One woman claims she was abused between 1976 and 1980 when it was run by Barnardo’s and three others say they were molested between 1973 and 1976 when Mind ran the school.
Victims from Duncroft previously described how Savile sexually assaulted them after being allowed to stay overnight by the headmistress.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-saviles-duncroft-school-victims-1884599
More here on Barnardo’s
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2012/10/monarch-jfk-jimmy-savile-barnardos.html
Child abuse ‘cover-up’ claims after Barnardo’s admits systematically destroying files
June 3 2017
CHILDREN’S charity Barnardo’s systematically destroyed records at its residential care homes where child sex abuse occurred over three decades – but claimed to victims that files had been lost in a flood.
The organisation’s solicitor made the shock admission to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry. Victims of abuse say they have been left “distressed” by the revelation that the charity had a policy of disposing of files when they shut care homes where abuse happened in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Groups representing survivors have accused Barnardo’s of “covering their tracks”
Barnardo’s close links with royalty started when our work began in 1867, and still continues today with Her Majesty the Queen as our patron and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall as our President. In fact, Barnardo’s has had a royal patron since 1902 and royal presidents from 1923.
There have been a variety of royal events over the centuries ranging from 100 children attending George V’s silver jubilee in 1935, to royal visits to many of our projects and the opportunity for many children Barnardo’s has worked with over the decades to meet our royal supporters.
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/our_history/barnardos_and_royalty.htm
Cassandra Cogno @CassandraCogno May 26
Was this research on Duncroft & Savile allegations ever published? It’s closed now and received almost £50k
^ Research related to the blog of former Duncroft School resident (known as the blogger Anna Raccoon) who denied that Jimmy Savile had been at Duncroft when she was there – despite claims by her roommate who said she had been assaulted by Jimmy Savile.
Anna Raccoon has since described how she noticed that a woman who roomed with her in the Wedgewood Dormitory at Duncroft in 1965 was claiming online to have been assaulted by Jimmy Savile in the dormitory when she was 15 years old:
How could I have been so unobservant as to not notice such a comment-worthy event as a major celebrity galloping around the building unescorted? There had to be some mistake in the reporting. Or maybe in my maths? I rechecked all my fingers, yep I was definitely there in 1965. Except for one month at the end of the year – but I was back four months later.
Here’s some of her “work”
from raccoon….2013/03/12
What have we here? An entry in the Metropolitan Police Services Paedophile Intelligence Unit from 1964. In a book also dated 1981. So these matters were taken seriously enough in 1964 to warrant an independent unit, eh? Or backdated in 1981?
“BATTERSEA BRIDGE ROAD, (WA) – 4 older girls & youth named [name] (? Homosexual) live at – Jimmy SAVILLE (sic) well known disc jockey frequents –used by absconders from DUNCROFT APP SCHOOL”.
Wow, that’s odd. 1964, just the time when I was first an absconder from Duncroft – and living in Battersea Bridge Road!
In a house rented by four older girls, who ran the fan club for The Animals, and one of the girls was Don Arden’s secretary and frequently on Top of the Pops… couldn’t be the same house could it?
Notorious Don Arden father of Sharon Osbourne.
Behind the glitz of Top Of The Pops were serious, sometimes villainous men like Arden making mountains of money which they were determined to hang on to. He would beat the other guy, he would say, by “fair means or foul”.
…charged with the kidnapping, blackmail, torture and the assault of the former employee.
Amazingly, he got off.
Don also became involved with the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan. When Reagan became President, Don was invited to the White House.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-470663/The-Monster-Rock–Why-Sharon-Osbournes-dad-feared-man-music.html)
Anna Raccoon
My only connection with those girls was that my then boyfriend, Joss, knew them, and they had agreed that I could temporarily sleep on their sofa – which I did.
One of the girls, Dawn Voice-Cooper, was secretary to Don Arden, at the time the largest promoter of rock bands in London. We stayed friends for the next ten years, until she moved to Spain.
I am aware that there had been two Duncroft girls, before my time – ie several years older than me, who had become prostitutes after they left
Had I managed to miss being mauled by Savile yet again?
I think I now hold the world record for managing to be in the most places where Savile is alleged to have abused and never even managed to meet him, never mind been abused by him.
“DUNCROFT APP SCHOOL – Absconders – Vice Ring.
[Name] ….living on (sic) immoral earnings of [names of two females identified as DUNCROFT girls].2 yrs imp.[Name]…Charged with [name] as above, also further charged with harbouring [female‟s name] – failed to appear…on 20/10/64 having estreated his bail & thought to be in Holland.
[Name], [address]. At CCC (Central Criminal Court) on 5/11/1964. Charged with living on (sic) earnings & procuring [two female names]. Found NOT GUILTY. No connection with [name and name] above, but all DUNCROFT girls.
The address (sic) used by [name and name] were [address given]. All men were coloured. [Name of female] (ex-Duncroft) introduced the girls to the men concerned.”
Anna Raccoon some some years after Duncroft school
“All men were coloured.” Nope, must have been another group of Duncroft girls, the house I was living in was definitely not being used as a brothel, nor were there any coloured men anywhere near it. Odd that we never bumped into each other though – perhaps they were much older than I.
‘Urgent Invite’: Securing a data set on allegations of sexual abuse made against the former disc jockey, Jimmy Savile
Lead Research Organisation: University of Edinburgh
http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/FD6C5739-124D-4DFC-BEDF-AE43DEC139AC …
Anna Raccoon aka Susanne Cameron-Blackie of Duncroft School/Royal Family link
Susanne Cameron-Blackie will be carrying on the family tradition on June 8th – I can do this, and I will.
Anna Raccoon @AnnaRaccoon2017
Little known facts. Ms Raccoon’s Aunt stood for election in Breckfield ward Liverpool City Council in May 1952.
Margery Grace Blackie CVO (4 February 1898 – 24 August 1981) was a British doctor who later changed to homeopathy and became homeopath to Queen Elizabeth II
Margery Grace Blackie was born at Redbourn, Hertfordshire, on 4 February 1898, the youngest of ten children of Robert Blackie (c.1852–1936), who was independently wealthy, and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1941), daughter of Rowland Rees, the civil engineer and Mayor of Brighton. Her uncle, by marriage, was James Compton-Burnett, a noted Homeopathic Doctor. His daughter, the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett was a first cousin.[1] In 1911 the family moved to London, and she was educated at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls in Acton.[1]
She studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women, and qualified as a doctor in 1923
In 1955 she had her first meeting with Her Majesty the Queen, who was to become her patient fourteen years later. (1969)
Until her death in 2002, at the ripe old age of 101, Her Majesty the Queen Mother, was the principal royal patron of the British Homeopathic Association. The Duke of Gloucester, formerly Prince Richard, remains royal patron of the association.
Princess Alice, the late Duchess of Gloucester, was the patron of the Blackie Foundation Trust established in honor of Dr. Margery Blackie, the former royal homeopathic physician who served from 1969 until 1980.
At present, Princess Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy, is patron to the Blackie Foundation Trust, and Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, serves as one of the vice-presidents of this organization.
http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-royal-medicine-monarchs-longtime.html
Blackie Foundation Trust
June 16, 2014
With the longstanding love of homeopathy among the super-rich, it is notable that
Blackie Foundation Trust Founded in 1971
one of the three founding trustees of the Blackie Foundation Trust was one of Margery’s former wealthy patients, Robin Holland-Martin — an investment banker who was at the time a Partner at Cazenove and Company (now J.P. Morgan Cazenove).
Robin Holland-Martin still remains as the President of Margery’s homeopathic venture.
Context:
Susanne Cameron-Blackie’s aunt Margery Blackie Foundation Trust Founded in 1971
Hornby Playland happened 1970-1975
Robin Holland-Martin of Blackie Trust Foundation served part-time at the Conservative Party’s Central Office from 1974 to 1982
Robin Holland-Martin becoming Treasurer of the Party in 1979.
1979, Margery Blackie was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, for her services to the royal family
Robin Holland-Martin is affiliated with Newmarket Venture Capital Plc, Conservative Party, Cazenove & Co. Ltd., Royal Navy (Great Britain), Investindustrial Advisors Ltd., Service Point UK Ltd., Grapes Direct Ltd., Service Point Solutions SA, Dorling Kindersley Holdings Plc, Henderson Greenfriar Investment Trust Plc, Henderson Plc, Henderson Global Investors Group, Paterson Products Ltd., The Fine Art Society PLC, Victoria & Albert Museum, City & Guilds of London Institute, Royal College of Art, Blackie Foundation Trust.
Follow the money..
Robin Holland-Martin of Blackie Foundation Trust
One of the three founding trustees of the Blackie Foundation Trust was one of Margery’s former wealthy patients, an investment banker who was at the time a Partner at Cazenove and Company (now J.P. Morgan Cazenove)
Cazenove
Although the firm refused to comment on its relations to the Royal Family, it was widely assumed that it is the appointed stockbroker to Her Majesty The Queen.
Garfield, Andrew (5 July 2000). “Cazenove: the Queen’s stockbroker”. The Independent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazenove_(stock_broker)
Robin Holland-Martin (right) of the Blackie Foundation Trust and Pres of Margery Blackie’s homeopathic venture.
Robin Holland-Martin of Blackie Foundation Trust served part-time at the Conservative Party’s Central Office from 1974 to 1982, becoming Treasurer of the Party in 1979.
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Robin-Holland-Martin/512963788
Normandy
Ilona Guest’s 21st Birthday Party
^ Celebrating her 21st birthday in great style on midsummer’s night, Ilona Guest held a masked ball at her mother’s stunning 18th-century chateau in Normandy. Guests of all ages, all nationalities and all sexual proclivities led to frequent cases of mistaken identity. The chatelaine, Venetia Wimborne, did not initially recognize her own son, Grant Barker, behind his golden mask; Vincent Poklewski – Koziell confused everyone by changing his mask frequently – one minute an 18th century courtier the next Coco the Clown. Thankfully, the masks were discarded after the first dance. Ilona’s usually reserved brother Ivor Wimborne gave a moving speech about how his little sister arrived in the world while he was learning to fly-fish. A spectacular electric storm gave way to rain-dancing till dawn, leaving just enough time for things to be put in order for dejeuner sur l’herbe the following day.
One typical vice president of the Blackie Foundation Trust is Enid Segall, who can also boast of being the president of the European Federation of Homeopathic Patients’ Associations.
Here Enid works closely with this Association’s secretary, Sato Liu, who recently served as the Special Projects Manager for Prince Charles’s now defunct quack outfit, the Foundation For Integrated Health, and prior to that as the executive director of the lobbying group known as the Natural Medicines Society (1988-2005).
Robin Holland-Martin of the Blackie Trust Foundation is related to Rosamund Hornby Holland-Martin of the NSPCC and she is related to Charles Hornby of the Playland paedophile Ring
The Playland Cover-Up
In 1975, Scotland Yard carried out a high-profile child abuse investigation which centred on the Playland amusement arcade near Piccadilly Circus, and involved the sexual exploitation of homeless boys. The investigation led to five convictions in September 1975. Four of the men convicted were ‘nobodies’, but one – Charles Hornby – was a pillar of the Establishment. He was a wealthy socialite, a Lloyd’s underwriter, and an old Etonian, “who on occasion had Prince Charles among his dinner guests”.
The four ‘nobodies’ later had their sentences reduced in mysterious circumstances. One of them, David Archer, alleged that Hornby was far from being the only VIP involved in the Playland scandal.
Last night Archer said he would present the police with a dossier naming the ‘millionaires and titled and influential people’ involved in the Playland affair. He added: ‘I believe there was a tremendous cover-up to protect these people.’
A clue as to the identity of one of these ‘titled and influential people’ appeared nearly a decade later with the publication of Philip Ziegler’s biography of Lord Mountbatten.
In 1975, Mountbatten was told that gossip had linked him to a homosexual scandal. He recorded in his diary: “I might have been accused of many things but hardly the act of homosexuality.”
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09:
Paedophile Lord Louis Mountbatten
Lord Louis Mountbatten former chauffeur Norman Nield exposed him
Paedophile Lord Louis Mountbatten
Edward Prince of Wales and his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten “relax” in a canvas swimming pool on board H. M. S. Renown during their 1920 Empire Tour.
Lord Louis was a great grandson of Queen Victoria and the uncle of Prince Philip (consort of Queen Elizabeth II). Mountbatten was also a promiscuous bisexual who was famously rumored to have had an affair with Edward VIII (who was Prince of Wales at the time) when he accompanied him on his Empire tours (see photo above).
The Queen. Like any human being, she is subject to the influence of those around her. While he lived, Lord Mountbatten was a persuasive counsellor, and he formulated the plan for Prince Charles’s unusually rigorous education.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/magazine/an-informal-look-at-the-royal-family.html?pagewanted=all
2001 Obituary of Rosamund Hornby Holland-Martin by Countess Mountbatten of Burma:
She was hugely active in the NSPCC’s centenary appeal in 1984, especially when, along with Princess Margaret, the society’s president
She was born Rosamund Hornby into a family with a strong history in the NSPCC. Her father, Charles Harry St John Hornby, was a member of the central executive committee (now the board of trustees)
In 1951, she married Deric Holland-Martin – he later became Admiral Sir Deric and she Lady Holland-Martin
Sir Deric was the fourth son of Robert Martin Holland-Martin.
Robin Holland-Martin is the grandson of Robert Martin Holland-Martin.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/04/guardianobituaries1
Playland 1970-1975: When protecting ‘millionaires titled and influential’ paedophile punters becomes paramount
Friend of Prince Charles, ‘wealthy socialite’ Hornby, 35, a Lloyds’ Underwriter and younger brother of the Managing Director of W.H.Smith Sir Simon Hornby had been leading a double life
Christopher Holland-Martin MP was the sixth but fifth surviving son of Robert Martin Holland, later Holland-Martin (R License 14 August 1917), and younger brother of Admiral Sir Deric Holland-Martin, who was married to Rosamund Holland-Martin.
The son of the Chairman of Martins Bank
Christopher Holland-Martin was appointed a Director of Martins Bank. He also became involved in politics and was made Joint Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1947; two years later he married Lady Anne Cavendish MBE, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Holland-Martin
Annual Conference – Volume 79 – Page 121
R. A. BUTLER, C.H., M.P. (Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party Organisation: I have been much moved by the warmth … After the terrible loss of our Treasurer, Christopher Holland–Martin, whose memory we all revere, we are very …
Back to the Blackie Foundation Trust:
The former president of the Natural Medicines Society, Lord Colwyn — who is a current patron of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers — is counted as another of the vice presidents of the Blackie Foundation Trust.(5) That said, here it is interesting to observe that although Lord Colwyn has spent much of his life doing his best to institionalise mysticism within the British health system, he has also been at the forefront of some of the scientifcally-orientated good work of the British Fluoridation Society, the latter being a group that seeks to promote flouridation; …,an intriguing anomaly that most likely owes much to Lord Colwyn’s professional training as a dentist.
” Margery Blackie’s relationship with Elizabeth II is cloaked in discretion.”
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The Blackie Foundation Trust is a charity that gives research grants and financial help to “medically qualified health care professionals”.[12]
It was founded by Blackie in 1971, when she was homeopathic physician to the Queen.[13]
In 1979, Margery Blackie was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, for her services to the royal family.[1]
Homeopathic pioneer Margery Blackie was commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on 12 October at 3pm at 18 Thurloe Street, London, SW7 where the homeopathic physician lived and worked from 1929 to 1980.
The Blue Plaque was unveiled by HRH Princess Alexandra.
HRH Princess Alexandra visits RLHH
25 November 2009
HRH Princess Alexandra visited The Royal Homœopathic Hospital on Tuesday, 25th November, in her role as Patron of The Blackie Foundation.
This is a charity founded by Dr Marjorie Blackie, a former consultant at the hospital, which supports homeopathic education and research.
This was the princess’ – herself a user of homeopathy – first visit to the Royal Homœopathic Hospital
Anna Raccoon’s aunt, Dr Margery Blackie, set up the
Blackie Foundation Trust
Blackie Foundation Trust Patron – HRH Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy – Jimmy Savile’s friend
Trustees
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Blackie_Foundation_Trust
Sir Angus Ogilvy, Princess Alexandra’s husband (left) with Jimmy Savile. All mention of the former DJ’s claims to friendship with the royal was initially omitted from police transcripts
All mention of Princess Alexandra, the youngest granddaughter of King George V and Queen Mary and the widow of Sir Angus Ogilvy, was blacked out when transcripts of the police interview were released in October.
The keep, Hedingham Castle
Since 1945, Margery shared her London home with her close friend and secretary, Musette Majendie. They spent weekends at Hedingham Castle, the 100-acre estate which had been home to Majendie’s family since 1720.[8]
Police cover up Savile’s claims to be friends with Queen’s cousin: Paedophile ‘visited school at centre of abuse allegations with Princess Alexandra’
- Paedophile mentioned first trip to school at centre of abuse claims
- He said he was with Princess Alexandra, a patron of the Duncroft school
- Made claims during police interview, the transcription of which was edited
- Information was removed by Surrey Police but has now been unveiled
‘Urgent Invite’: Securing a data set on allegations of sexual abuse made against the former disc jockey, Jimmy Savile
Lead Research Organisation: University of Edinburgh
The research proposed has potential impact across a swathe of civil society including:
1. Investigators of alleged historical abuse, e.g. Forensic and clinical psychologists; ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers; Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRS)
2. Organisations which support victims of abuse e.g. Victim Support; The Survivors Trust (TST); National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC)
3. Those supporting people accused and alleging innocence e.g. The Innocence Network UK (INUK); Falsely Accused Careers, Teachers and other professionals (FACT); Falsely Accused of Sexual Offences (FASO);
4. Defence solicitors and barristers specialising in charges of child/sex abuse;
5. Professional organisations e.g. NASUWT – the largest teachers’ union; Scottish Residential Child Care Workers Association (SRCCWA);
6. Charities and institutions affected by Savile’s legacy. e.g. The Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust; The (Leeds-based) Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust; The BBC.
7. Newspaper and broadcast media organisations e.g students on journalism courses
8. Policy makers
http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/FD6C5739-124D-4DFC-BEDF-AE43DEC139AC …
The Team
Conference Panel on Reducing False Allegations
Dr Mark Smith:
Basically Susanne got in touch with me a couple of years ago now saying that she had all this alternative story on this Savile case that she was starting to blog about and that she wanted to give it over to a good home.
So Ros, myself and a couple of my colleagues at Edinburgh actually managed to get some money from the Economic and Social Research Council to collate Susanne’s information.
pg 33
http://www.factuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/FACTion-6.1-web-version.pdf
Here’s another version:
From convicted paedophile/PIE member Tom O’Carroll:
Yes, Anna, or Susanne, is right at the heart of this story. Her wonderful, detailed, sceptical analyses of the claims against Savile have been highlighted here at Heretic TOC on several occasions, so I am sure we will all be delighted to hear that her work has won academic appreciation and government funding for a follow-up project.
In 2013 Anna Raccoon sent an email to Professor Viviene Cree at the Edinburgh University School of Social and Political Science, explaining the situation and saying she hoped the university would provide a good home for her archive. That summer the Economic and Social Research Council activated its Urgency Grants Mechanism to form a research team for the recovery and collation of documents and the information stored on Anna Raccoon’s computer in the Dordogne. The full story of the research team and its project are set out in the Lancashire Magazine’s article and is recommended reading.
False memories?
http://www.factuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/FACTion-6.1-web-version.pdf
My Sweet Landlord @MySweetLandlord
@KirkwoodSteveHi Steve. Can you tell me where to locate this resource? Thanks.
Steve Kirkwood @KirkwoodSteve
Hi there. Best to contact the lead researcher, Mark Smith. Details here:
Career History
I worked and managed in residential school and care settings and in secure accommodation over a period of almost 20 years.
http://www.socialwork.ed.ac.uk/people/academic_staff/smith_mark …
Mark is Head of Social Work and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
He spent almost 20 years as a practitioner and manager in List D schools/secure accommodation, and his PhD was essentially an oral history charting changing discourses of care in Scottish residential schools.
He has research and writing interests across a wide range of residential child care policy and practice, especially around concepts of care and upbringing. He has a particular interest in European models of social pedagogy and in applying these in a Scottish context.
Keywords: Youth crime, residential child care, Kilbrandon, social education, false allegations
c.uk/about-us/people/mr-mark-smith/
List D schools – like Bryn etc – Home Office run til they pass the buck.
How I came to be in this field
My mum and dad both went into teaching later in life and I was minded to follow them in that direction. History teachers, though, were ten-a-penny when I graduated so I worked in a bar for a while. I then responded to a job advert for a temporary residential social worker. I think the school needed some younger legs for its football team, which was run by an aging though still mad keen Head of Education. So I got taken on and as so often happens, I stayed. During my time there I took time out to do social work training at the University of Stirling, where I came across Leon Fulcher, who was Director of Social Work Education there. Fifteen years or so later Leon, who by that stage had moved to New Zealand, was responsible for putting me in touch with Thom Garfat, who has nagged me ever since to produce a monthly column for CYC-Online.
Favourite cyc experience
I’ve had a few. In 1990 a couple of colleagues and myself took a group of boys to the World cup in Italy. Overall that probably rates as my favourite experience. I wrote about it in one of my CYC-Online columns: see http://www.cyc-net.org/cycol-0608-smith.html
I was brought up and remain a Catholic and have encountered enough good priests along the way to keep me clinging to the Church’s social teaching if not always other aspects of Catholicism.
The De La Salle Brothers, with whom I worked for 8 years provided my formative experiences in child and youth care. Frank Rochford, the Head of Education and part-time football team manager mentioned above, was the wisest boss and colleague. Eddie McCabe and Onanda Randall, both sadly now dead, are the most charismatic figures I have come across – they touched lives.
Leon Fulcher introduced me to the literature on child and youth care and has been immensely supportive ever since. Through Leon I have become part of the wider child and youth care community. I remember one memorable night in Ireland drinking Guinness with Leon, Thom Garfat and Jack Phelan and a group of Irish practitioners.
I have been blessed with intelligent and supportive colleagues wherever I have worked.
Students on the MSc in Residential child care at the University of Strathclyde helped me form or reinforce my views on residential care.
http://www.cyc-net.org/people/people-smith.html
Some of his publications
Smith, M. (2003), ‘Boys to Men: Exploring Masculinity in Child and Youth Care’, Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 16 (4): 12-2
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_work/smith_mark
Panicking over the past – Opinion piece by Mark Smith
2007 – Mark Smith/Ray Wyre quoted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6927500.stm
You could try him on Twitter – not sure how much he’s on it tho! @MarkSmi90524217
My Sweet Landlord @MySweetLandlord
Great. I’ll give it a try. Can you remember when the project was completed?
Steve Kirkwood @KirkwoodSteve
I think it concluded in 2015.
Mark Smith’s twitter:
Wiltshire Police is acting like a public relations tool for David Ickehttp://barristerblogger.com/2017/02/23/wilthsire-police-acting-like-public-relations-tool-david-icke/ … via @barristerblog
By focusing on #Savile, what were we NOT looking at? Great blog post by @VivCree@ClaptonGary & Mark Smith
Cui Bono – the c r o w n family?
University of Edinburgh – Royal Family Chancellors
Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal
HRH The Princess Royal has held the position of Chancellor of the University since March 2011.
She succeeds HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who stepped down from the role in 2010, having held it since 1953.
Royal Cover Up – Duncroft School
The royal family tried to censor police documents related to Duncroft.
You know all those people going after Survivors? They all knew each other. From way back. Makes ya think doesn’t it?
Advisors to FACT 2014 Hewson, Jervis, Furedi, Mark Smith
http://www.factuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/FACT-Advisory-Group-2014.pdf …
Margaret Jervis aka Clare Jervis
She was journalist for Social Work Today in the 80’s and early 90’s.
A contemporary of Peter Righton
After Peter Righton’s home was raided in 1992, Social Work Today printed this short report.
LazerLight @Lazer_Light23
It’s a strange article in that it fails to mention Righton’s long association with Social Work Today and the dozens of columns that he wrote for the magazine.
From Anna Raccoon 2014
Ozzie Man – “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
annaraccoon.co.uk/2014/11/…/ozzie-man-look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair/
Nov 5, 2014 – A sorely missed commentator on this blog is Margaret Jervis who had a …. Folk like Peter Righton, doyen of the UK Social Work Establishment …
Margaret Jervis:
The Let Our Voices Emerge (LOVE) group and British False Memory Society criticised the commission and claimed the scale of alleged abuse in Ireland was incredulous and caused irreversible damage to those accused.
The claims sparked fury among abuse victims who branded it an outrageous attack against all Irish people.
The Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) held a protest against the two groups as they met in Dublin and angrily hit out at claims they had conjured up defective and exaggerated memories.
Margaret Jervis, legal advisor to the False Memory Society, linked Ireland’s large number of outstanding child abuse complaints to the Government’s “open-ended” compensation scheme and its definitions of abuse.
She described the therapy system as “a machine for manufacturing false allegations.”
LOVE promotes a positive image of religious orders in children’s homes and works to protect innocent people accused of abuse.
Founder member Florence Horsman-Hogan said people were being given incentives to exaggerate and fabricate claims of abuse.
“We believe around 30% of abuse allegations in Ireland are false…”
Ms Jervis infuriated genuine victims when she said: “The Irish are great storytellers and many, it seems, are making extreme allegations.
“The further you go back in years with allegations of abuse, the taller the stories become.”
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/child-abuse-victims-accused-of-false-claims-134754.html
“Agenda, bias, call it what you will, Margaret, but you are a professional CSA refuter, paid to help deny CSA claims.
I’ve been reading many of your articles and they all, unsurprisingly, have the same theme, dogged denial or discreditation of CSA. Cleveland was a particular interest, many now consider to be a Psyop.
Spin and propaganda is rife in the world of CSA, particularly VIP abuse.”
https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/the-cps-and-the-michael-le-vell-trial/
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo:
Did BigEars urge Savile to get involved with the Cleveland scandal? See what it was all about? If so, why? And with what intention?
Did a local vicar in Cleveland write to BigEars telling of children taken away from parents and asking for his help?
What did BigEars, Ball’s ‘loyal friend’, know about his perverted ways and did he help to keep Ball in the country?
But we now know that Couldn’t-Carey was involved in pulling strings. And I bet BigEars was as well!
So the Gin Goblin met up with Savile’s cousin who has boxes of savile’s correspondence.
https://twitter.com/AnnaRaccoon2017/status/868485020708732928 …
Who vetted evidence for Clarke Osbourne in the Cleveland case, Gin Goblin (Hewson) ? I hear many boxes were returned to McKenna so they needed help!
Now why on Earth would a barrister subjected to such humiliating posts by Darren Laverty rush to his defence? She’s not that selfless!
If Darren Laverty was never sexually abused as a minor, could @InquiryCSA explain on what grounds he was given core participant status?
How many IICSA core participants are moles feeding out information to the bullies on Twitter who constantly target CSA survivors?
Clare Jervis @mscjervis
Former staff journalist for Social Work Today
http://www.richardwebster.net/shieldfieldhowdidithappen.html
Richard Webster in 2002 with mention of Margaret Jervis and British False Memory Society.
Mr McKelvie was a child protection manager in Hereford and Worcester and worked on the conviction of paedophile Peter Righton -a former consultant to the National Children’s Bureau.
Righton, who is now dead, was also a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), before he was convicted of importing child pornography.
…Mr McKelvie said the evidence went further than just Righton and claimed he told police in 2012 there were seven boxes of potential evidence being stored by West Mercia Police. He said the evidence included letters between Righton and other alleged paedophiles.
He said: “I believe that there is strong evidence, and an awful lot of information that can be converted into evidence if it is investigated properly, that there’s been an extremely powerful elite among the highest levels of the political classes for as long as I have been alive – I’m 65 now.
“We are looking at the Lords, we are looking at the Commons, we are looking at the judiciary, we are looking at all institutions where there will be a small percentage of paedophiles and a slightly larger percentage of people who have known about it but have felt that in terms of their own self-interest and self-preservation and for political party reasons it’s been safer for them to cover it up rather than deal with it.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mps-named-again-and-again-on-child-abuse-line-g0xtb23pdjt
Anthony John Wixted @TrojanManifesto
Andrew Soper trial: Alleged child abuse victim claims paedophile ring operated from Ealing Catholic school:
https://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/andrew-soper-trial-alleged-child-13783458 …
Paedophile Rings / Soper / St Benedict’s / Stacey
Dame Alun Roberts@ciabado
https://ianpace.wordpress.com/tag/social-work-today/ … Interesting read on Social Work Today and Islington connections.
ONE What is it about Islington, that den of iniquity? Here’s an attempt to join a few dots …
TWO Nick Stacey, a Director of Social Services, instructed his staff not to report alleged paedophiles within Kent Social Services.
THREE Stacey was very close to Peter Righton. Stacey, formerly a vicar, was based in Maidstone, where Righton also lived for a time.
FOUR They cemented their friendship via Social Work Today and were on a steering ctte to train those working with disturbed young people.
SIX When Liz Davies blew the whistle on Islington, Rea Price quickly legged it to become CEO of NCB, also based in Islington.
SEVEN Also close to Righton and Stacey was Chris Andrews, Chair of BASW and another force within SWT alongside Margaret Claire Jervis.
Read here how Andrews rushed to the defence of paedophile Peter Righton:
EIGHT Margaret Claire Jervis went on to become Barbara Hewson’s close friend and fellow activist in the false allegations campaign.
NINE When Righton was arrested in 1992, Chris Andrews, who spoke for BASW, was one of the first to jump to Righton’s defence.
TEN Incredible correspondence between Chris Andrews and Tom O’Carroll reveals Andrews in his official capacity representing social workers
Here is the nasty Tom O’Carroll in correspondence with Andrews.
So Chris Andrews, GenSec of BASW and close associate of Hewson buddy Claire Jervis, was in contact with PIE and O’Carroll. Well, well, well!
Here again is Jervis associate Andrews writing to O’Carroll, boadly agreeing with PIE:
ELEVEN In it, he supports PIE’s aims and asks to become a subscriber to their magazine , Magpie.
TWELVE Magpie made no attempt to disguise its aims, even containing pages of adverts for paedophiles to link up and share chiildren.
Complimentary tickets to PIE event from convicted paedo Tom O’Carroll to Chris Andrews of BASW, colleague of Hewson friend Claire Jervis.
I wonder how close Jervis herself was to Righton and PIE?
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Margaret Claire Jervis said the EGH list was fake
From press officer with BASW when it was cuddling up to PIE to legal adviser with survivor-bashing False Memory Society…
HRH Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
NEW BLOG POST:
ISLINGTON: The connections to PIE:
CONNECTION 1: REV NICOLAS STACEY
CONNECTION 2: PETER RIGHTON
CONNECTION 3: JOHN REA PRICE
CONNECTION 4: CHRIS ANDREWS
CONNECTION 5: MARGARET CLAIRE JERVIS
More here
https://scepticpeg.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/islington-the-connections-leading-to-pie/ … Inspired by @ciabaudo tweets
Anna Raccoon
Cleveland – Savile was there. Who sent him? Ha! Your little chum told me fuckers! False allegations my left foot! Lost the passwords, Liar
Cleveland, two nonces in family? –
Bet you didn’t know that! Boxes of proof. Cleveland CSA. Now let me think – who was it that was involved in Cleveland? It’ll come to me...
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Who vetted evidence for Clarke Osbourne in the Cleveland case, Gin Goblin? I hear many boxes were returned to McKenna so they needed help!
I’m told many boxes were returned containing too-hot-to-handle letters, including correspondence between Savile and BigEars re Cleveland.
Cleveland? Oh yes, you’ve been laying a false trail from
Wonder where all Jimmy Savile’s diaries have gone? Why was Savile in Cleveland?
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
The diaries are vital evidence and could lead to other potential abusers that are alive.
Indeed, they were vital to his movements. Did police retrieve them from his secretary’s garage? Or were they given back to the family?
Diaries last seen in Savile Documentary when his Stoke Mandeville Secretary took them home to her garage. Where are they now?
Would the founding director of Radio Pennine, Richard Denby, have known Jimmy Savile, a man with strong links to several radio stations?
Sir Richard Denby’s niece Barbara Hewson allegedly met up with Jimmy Savile’s niece Amanda McKenna (who was named in Jimmy Savile’s will.
AnnaStillHereRaccoon @AnnaRaccoon2017
who they are so when they try to write about JK they will have the same treatment I’ve had. Not hide behind false names. They call him ‘Sir’ Same as Savile. They had meeting up in Leeds. Amanda, Johnny, Hewson, rabbit don’t know about moor or jervis, can’t remember.
Very interesting that @AnnaRaccoon2017 is not retracting her claim that the Gin Goblin (Barbara Hewson) met with Amanda McKenna, Savile’s niece, in Leeds!
Equally interesting that the Gin Goblin has NOT denied that this meeting took place.
Jerry Sadowitz performance from 1987 where he describes Jimmy Savile as a danger to children…
‘There have been serious allegations of child abuse in Cleveland. To my mind there is only one way to find out whether this is true or not and that’s to . . . CALL IN JIMMY SAVILE! You can’t afford to f* about! Bring in an expert!* Am I right? A friend of mine reckons Jimmy Savile is a paedophile. Rubbish — he’s a child-bender! That’s why he does all the f**** charity work: it’s to gain public sympathy for when his f***** case comes up.’
That show was called Total Abuse. And it was. Unrepeatable jokes about Princess Diana, Terry Waite, Norman Tebbit, Nelson Mandela.
One presumes he had heard the rumours and was bold enough to put them out there. The point is, what about the rest of them?
If Sadowitz, a fringe comic with no connections to TV or radio at the time, had heard enough to joke about Savile in 1987, it is fair to presume his more famous contemporaries knew, too. This would include people who have done some serious moralising in the media of late.
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Mmmh. So Anna Raccoon remembers a meeting in Leeds attended by Savile niece and brother and – wait – Barbara Hewson? No wonder she’s jittery
LazerLight @Lazer_Light23
How could Amanda review the cases, wasn’t she a beneficiary of the will?
HRH Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
Is this implying that names of those who accused Savile of abuse were passed to the family? By whom?
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Weren’t lawyers involved?
HRH Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
I don’t know but either way, that’s surely a serious breach of data protection?
LazerLight @Lazer_Light23
According to Anna they offered to review, but we don’t know they were permitted. Assuming the ‘boxes’ of Savile stuff were properly redacted by Osbourne?
Anna Raccoon , Savile WAS at Cleveland
Anna Raccoon @AnnaRaccoon2017
Anna Raccoon Retweeted Anna Raccoon
See? I can taunt too. Can’t get you to swap places in this bed, pity. Used me, then turned on me. You’ll pay. @HOLLIEGREIGJUST good man!
Anna Raccoon added,
Cleveland – Savile was there. Who sent him? Ha! Your little chum told me fuckers! ‘False allegations’ my left foot! Lost the passwords, Liar
Hobbs and Wynn – csa experts
Northern Regional Health Authority barred Dr Higgs from child abuse work in their region. She has never apologised. “I reached my clinical diagnosis after very careful thought and I would do the same today,” is what she said then. Although this week she refused to comment further, Dr Higgs made it clear she has not changed her views.
The Anal Dilation Theory practised by as not her idea however, she just became the most infamous practioner.…the Daily Mail report about a girl called Jodie .
The girl was referred to the community paediatrics department at the city’s St James’s University Hospital on the following Thursday… The hospital has a busy child protection team, overseen by the paediatric consultant Dr Christopher Hobbs. Significantly, he is an original pioneer of the RAD technique in this country.
In June 1986, just a year before the Cleveland controversy broke, Dr Hobbs and his colleague Jane Wynne introduced young Marietta Higgs to this new way of diagnosing child molestation during a Leeds’ medical conference.
A paper written in Leeds by the two premier experts (Hobbs & Wyatt) contains no mention of Jimmy Savile
…the doctors evidently being privy to all the police information from the years 1985-1987, when a “Paedophile Ring” was declared to exist in South Leeds – a claim made by experts in the field and backed up by the police at the time.
(yet) there was no mention by anyone of Leeds native, (Jimmy Savile) known by sight to one and all – especially all those folks who worked in the hospitals he worked in, like Dr. Hobbs, and Dr Wynne.
Leon Brittan and the Leeds child abuse dossier
Leon Brittan and the Leeds child abuse dossier
In February 1985, the Yorkshire Evening Post revealed that ‘a horrifying dossier on child prostitution in Leeds – involving girls as young as nine – has been compiled by shocked social services chiefs‘.
‘As many as 60 under-age girls are known to have been involved in illegal sex activities…in the south Leeds area‘
‘Eight of the girls involved had been taken into the care of the local authority at some stage and six of them were still in care today‘
Councillor Bernard Atha, the chairman of the city’s social services committee, said he was ‘horrified by the magnitude of the problem’, which he believed was the largest case of its kind in the country.
The MP for Leeds South, Merlyn Rees, obviously agreed with Councillor Atha’s assessment of the scale of the problem, as four days later the Yorkshire Evening Post reported that he was to write to the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan.
Mr Rees said “It is very worrying and obviously something needs to be done. This could be just the tip of the iceberg and I want the Home Secretary to investigate“.
So, what did Leon Brittan do about it?
There were no statements read by him in Parliament, and unless a government initiative to crack down on child abuse was launched in secret, it seems Mr. Brittan did nothing.
A news report from June 1985 said that “three new cases of paid sex involving under-age children were being investigated” – so the problem obviously hadn’t been solved. 120 girls had been questioned, but there’s nothing in the report about the ringleaders who were sexually exploiting children being arrested.
Perhaps Bernard Atha, who is still a Leeds councillor, can shed some light on this?
Yorkshire Evening Post, 14th February 1985
So Leon Brittan lied about British Aerospace, didn’t remember the Dickens’ dossier and did not act on information regarding these poor girls in South Leeds.
Yorkshire Evening Post, 18th February 1985
Daily Express, 24th June 1985
This was clearly a national problem, as the following year Geoffrey Dickens exposed a ‘child brothel’ involving up to 40 children that was being run on a North London council estate. This was swiftly covered up and Dickens was told he must apologise to the residents that he had insulted. More
In November 1983, Geoffrey Dickens gave the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, a dossier on the Paedophile Information Exchange, who wanted the age of consent reduced to 4 years old, and allegations of child sexual abuse by Buckingham Palace staff. In January 1984, Dickens gave Brittan a second dossier detailing sexual abuse at a children’s home, and naming prominent paedophiles including a television executive. More
It appears that Brittan failed to act on the contents of both dossiers. Nothing was done to help the children who were being abused, and nothing was done to bring the abusers to justice. Tom Watson MP tabled a written PMQ to the current Home Secretary, Theresa May, on 25th February 2013, asking for the whereabouts of the dossiers. Nearly 5 months have passed and there’s still no reply from Theresa May… More
This is what Labour Cllr Atha had to say about Savile, his friend over several decades, a week after his death: “A number of us (Councillors) will consider what we ought to do to commemorate a person who was an outstanding personality, a very nice, decent person who had an enormous impact on our cultural life, including the world of pop music. He was quite exceptional, yet he was a local Leeds lad and always insisted on that.” uPSD can trace no outcome of Cllr Atha’s enquiries into the paedophile ring and neither have West Yorkshire Police. It is also worth noting that Cllr Les Carter, also of Leeds and a 40 year colleague of Mr Atha, was Vice Chair, and then Chair, of a West Yorkshire Police Authority that was in total denial about police paedophilia within its ranks. Cllr Carter was also the Chair of the Safer Leeds Board that engaged Savile to promote the Talking Signs campaign referred to above.
http://www.upsd.co.uk/operation-newgreen-savile-report/
The Yorkshire Post made one thing clear, when Dr. Wynne died a few years ago. She was an expert:
THE paediatrician Jane Wynne, who has died aged 64, was an internationally known authority on child abuse, working in Leeds with her contemporary Christopher Hobbs. The lives of both were for a time blighted by the notorious Cleveland child abuse scandal of 1987, but it was perceptions of guilt by association rather than any direct involvement of theirs which accounted for it.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/community/obituaries/jane-wynne-1-2295677
Jane became a council member of the NSPCC and joined its Board of Trustees; she also worked in the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. With others, she and Christopher Hobbs were instrumental in establishing the Child Protection Special Interest Group and the British Association for Community Child Health. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health eventually accepted that dealing with child abuse was a matter for all paediatricians, who needed to be aware of correct management and practice. For her work with abused children, in 1994 Jane received an honorary doctorate from Leeds Metropolitan University and in 2003 she was made an honorary trustee
So Jimmy Savile would have known these doctors, Hobbs and Wynne who trained Dr Marietta Higgs – all involved in the Cleveland case via Leeds General Infirmary
Wynne, Leeds pioneer in the field of child abuse….
THE paediatrician Jane Wynne, who has died aged 64, was an internationally known authority on child abuse, working in Leeds with her contemporary Christopher Hobbs. The lives of both were for a time blighted by the notorious Cleveland child abuse scandal of 1987, but it was perceptions of guilt by association rather than any direct involvement of theirs which accounted for it. The Cleveland case centred on a paediatrician who diagnosed 121 cases of suspected child abuse on Teesside. Eventually 96 of them were dismissed by the courts. The affair resulted in a public inquiry conducted by Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss which found Jane and Christopher Hobbs blameless.
After marrying Dr Simon Currie in 1976, she moved back to Leeds as lecturer in the university’s department of paediatrics. There she ran clinics for handicapped children and joined Michael Buchanan, senior lecturer, in the field of child abuse in which he had been a pioneer.
In 1984, she was appointed a consultant community paediatrician attached to Leeds General Infirmary, but also attending St James’s Hospital.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/jane-wynne-1-2295677
Professor Alistair Hall, senior consultant cardiologist at Leeds General Infirmary and St James’s Hospital, said: “I am 100 per cent in agreement that the wonderful Sir Jimmy should be made Freeman of the City.
“Despite his fame he still volunteers at the hospital and the list of good work and fundraising he has done is too long to list. “He has supported a lot of cardiology research and helped with The Family Heart Study and toured on the big red bus across the UK. He has helped us to fundraise to buy a special scanner and only recently donated a large amount of money to fund scholarships for junior doctors.” The senior cardiologist, who carried out Sir Jimmy’s quadruple heart bypass operation a decade ago, said the broadcaster and sportsman was an amazing person who fully deserved to be honoured publicall
BN 68 – Ministry of Health and successors: Inquiry into Child Abuse in Cleveland 1987: Report and Papers
BN 68/87 1987 Jan 01-1987 Dec 31 Day 69 – 10.12.1987: Eric Bryan [Brian] Roycroft (Newcastle Social Services); Peter Newell (Children’s Legal Centre)
Day 70 – 14.12.1987: Dr Ralph Underwager (Institute for Psychological Therapies, Minneapolis); Susan Amphlett (Parents Against Injustice)
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C10939116
The Butler-Sloss inquiry into the Cleveland case heard evidence from an American ‘child abuse expert’ called Ralph Underwager. He spoke out on behalf of the ‘falsely accused’ parents and many of his recommendations made their way into the Butler-Sloss report. The Butler-Sloss report, as Frank Cook pointed out, went on to influence both Children’s Act and also the subsequent handling of countless child abuse inquiries.
A few years later, Ralph Underwager was exposed by an interview he gave to a European paedophile magazine called Paidika, in which he said child sexual abuse was “God’s Will”.
Here are some extracts from the interview, which can be found here:
Underwager: Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love….Paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness they can say, “I believe this is in fact part of God’s will
The Cleveland Scandal – The Inquiry lasted 74 days, from mid-August 1987 until the end of January 1988
Alun:
So the Gin Goblin (Hewson) met up with Savile’s (niece Amanda?) who has boxes of savile’s correspondence
LazerLight @Lazer_Light23
Ah, got it! The Bin Goblin was never a close friend of @AnnaRaccoon2017 after all! Don’t we know!
LazerLight @Lazer_Light23
Gosh, and didn’t she only last month, travel up to Norfolk, with gifts and sit at her bedside? Lot of trouble for a ‘non friend’.
Alun
She was her biggest cheerleader by far. She must be frantically scared of what Anna knows and has passed onto others. Watch this space!
Savile would have known the doctors (Hobbs and Wynne) involved with the Cleveland case as they worked at LGI, Leeds General infirmary
Jimmy Savile’s secretary Janet Rowe at 10:16 in the video is, showing Savile’s files… there is a personal letter from Prince Charles, as well as an annotated newspaper article about the Cleveland case – the headline reads
“Marietta Higgs at centre of new sex abuse scandal”
alun:
Cleveland
I’m told many boxes were returned containing too-hot-to-handle letters, including correspondence between Savile and BigEars re Cleveland.
Cleveland Area
Cleveland: Unspeakable TruthsThe headline summed it up: “Is this the film that should never have been made ?”. Just as telling was that the article under it – in the TV Times – was the only national press coverage of the film. Ten years after the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis not a single newspaper reported on a documentary which told – for the first time – the truth about what had happened to the children at the heart of a “scandal” which had gripped and divided the entire country. Not for nothing was the film called “Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths”. For those too young to recall it – and for those who still do – it’s worth recalling the events as they unfolded. In the spring of 1987, 121 children from the (then) county of Cleveland – an area of some 583 square km and including the economically depressed towns of Hartlepool, Redcar and Middlesbrough – were taken into temporary local authority care on suspicion of having been sexually abused. Many – in fact the majority – of the children were very young: most were pre-pubescent and in some cases so young (or developmentally delayed) as to be pre-verbal. This was not just the biggest sexual abuse case Britain had then encountered but the very first involving multiple victims and multiple perpetrators. Others – Rochdale, Orkney, Broxtowe – would follow on in quick succession, but Cleveland was the first and it set the template. Newspaper coverage that spring led readers to believe that the children had been “snatched” from their parents as the result of a new and untested physical diagnosis – Reflex Anal Dilatation. The press – led by the Daily Mail – reported that two paediatricians, Dr Marietta Higgs and Dr Geoffrey Wyatt, who had recently arrived at Middlesbrough General Hospital had begun using RAD to diagnose sexual abuse on children who had been brought to the hospital for petty and unrelated problems – “a child with a sore finger” became the familiar trope of these stories. Worse, or so the papers claimed, RAD involved looking up inside children’s bottoms and was a new and “experimental” technique. Cleveland’s senior police surgeon – a local GP called Alistair Irvine, made a series of statements to the media in which he damned both RAD and Drs Higgs and Wyatt. He was backed by local MP Stuart Bell who gave a succession of highly inflammatory interviews to local television stations. The media response was swift and overwhelming. Reporters from national newspapers, radio and television descended on Middlesbrough. The Daily Mail alone sent seven. And what were these journalists looking for ? One thing and one thing only – “innocent parents” wrongly parted from their children. And these parents – aided by Stuart Bell who had become their self-appointed champion – quickly told (and frequently sold) their stories. In a matter of weeks Cleveland went from being a small local story to a national “scandal”. All the papers and broadcasters repeated the parents claims and Stuart Bell’s allegations, and viciously attacked the paediatricians. They, along with Cleveland Council’s most senior child abuse advisor Sue Richardson, were ordered by their employers not to give any interviews or make any comment to the media. The Tory government set up a judicial enquiry under Lord Justice (Elizabeth) Butler Sloss. The enquiry sat for a year, heard evidence from parents, social services, police, doctors, nurses and – without any apparent unease – from a champion of paedophile rights, Ralph Underwager. It cost £5 million. But there was one very odd aspect to the enquiry. Its remit from Whitehall prohibited it from asking – let alone answering – the most important question of all: how many of the 121 children at the centre of the crisis had been abused ? By the time the enquiry report was close to publication I had made a high-profile documentary (and written a book) about child pornography. I approached Marietta Higgs to ask if she would, on the day of publication, be interviewed by me for ITN News. After a week of negotiation it was agreed that she would do one television interview (with me), one radio interview for Woman’s Hour and speak to one newspaper (The Guardian). I was freelance and arranged to do the interview at the studios of Tyne Tees, ITV’s franchise in the north-east. It would be quicker to feed the piece down to ITN from Newcastle than to film it and bike the tape down to London. I read the Butler Sloss report from cover to cover. I was – given the prevailing public story – surprised to see that it did not suggest anywhere that Drs Higgs and Wyatt had wrongly diagnosed the 121 children, nor that RAD had been the sole medical evidence in most cases. The report also made clear that no child was recorded as a suspected victim of sexual abuse on medical evidence alone: Butler-Sloss had heard a wealth of testimony from social services indicating that in the vast majority of cases, there were serious concerns about the children’s welfare long before they were seen at Middlesbrough General Hospital. The report did criticise the doctors for the problems their diagnoses caused at the hospital which had been overwhelmed. It placed restrictions on them working on child abuse cases. But it reserved its most serious and stinging criticism for Stuart Bell MP, who it found had made false ad inflammatory statements about the parents, the children and the doctors – and refused to correct them even when presented with the evidence. It also strongly criticised Alastair Irvine, the police surgeon who had been instrumental in sparking the crisis. The headlines that afternoon (and the next morning) were extraordinary: they bore no resemblance to the findings of the report. “Sack Her” [Marietta Higgs] was one of the more moderate. I interviewed Dr Higgs – calmly and politely for half an hour. I put to her all the criticism in the report and the complaints made by the parents. She answered honestly and frankly. While the tape was being fed to London, I was approached by Tyne Tees news journalists and by the news anchor. The former screamed at me that I had “let Higgs off the hook”; the anchor threatened to beat me up. ITN ran the interview that evening. Eight years later I was working at Yorkshire Television’s documentaries department – the best place in the world to make serious and important films. I had produced one such film two years earlier about a major child sexual abuse network in the United States [Conspiracy of Silence – there are references on this site to this] which had been pulled by its funder, The Discovery Channel. Perhaps that should have warned me. I happened to meet Sue Richardson at a child abuse conference during the summer of 1996. In passing she mentioned that she was very concerned about what had happened to the Cleveland children. For the next six months I quietly spoke to as many people involved in the crisis as I could. A picture quickly emerged: many – probably most – of the 121 children had been returned to their parents, even where there was clear evidence of sexual abuse. In an alarming number of cases there was a convicted sex offender living in the house – one of the trigger factors for Sue Richardson’s initial concerns. The court system had broken down under the weight of hostile news reporting: one judge refused to allow evidence “relating to children’s bottoms” in his court room. Children had been sent back to parents about whom there was a lengthy history of concern. And then there was RAD itself. It turned out that this was not some new and experimental technique, as alleged by the police surgeon and Stuart Bell, but was more than 100 years old and was formally included in the Association of Police Surgeons’ own manual as a diagnostic tool raising suspicions of sexual abuse and requiring further enquiries if it was observed. Late in 1997, with the wholehearted agreement of Yorkshire Television’s Head of Documentaries, I pitched the idea for a documentary about Cleveland to Channel 4. It agreed to commission the film and we went into production: Channel 4 was to pay to Yorkshire TV the sum of £150,00 to produce it and a first instalment was transferred to the company’s coffers. We also advertised for parents who had been caught up in the crisis. Only two came forward: a mother whose children had been sexually abused by their father (he was convicted of the abuse) and ho had tried – in vain – to get her story heard by reporters back in 1987, and a couple whose children had been among the first to be taken into care. We were also contacted by a young woman from the area who had been sexually abused by her father at the time but who was not part of the 121 taken into care. At some point a large brown parcel arrived for us at Yorkshire TV’s studios. Anonymously-sent, it contained all the social service evidence relating to the 121 children which had been presented in camera to Butler-Sloss. This posed a dilemma: although the children’s identities had been hidden by code letters in these documents, simply by receiving them – let alone broadcasting their contents -we were committing a serious offence. Yet the evidence in the documents clearly answered the question Butler-Sloss had been forced to duck: had these children been abused ? The papers showed that the children had long histories of involvement with social services and painstakingly documented injuries. In many cases a convicted paedophile was living in their houses, and many had made very convincing disclosures of sexual activity with adults. In the end, and with Yorkshire TV’s backing, we decided they were too important to throw away. Happily, Chanel 4 was then a far more serious broadcaster than it is now. Within days it had brokered a deal whereby my own production company would make the film; I would take leave of absence from Yorkshire TV to do so, and – under pain of having its lucrative daytime Countdown quiz-programme terminated by Channel 4 – Yorkshire TV would then take me back on a longer contract. The row even made the front page of the industry’s trade magazine. But our troubles were nothing compared to those of Drs Higgs and Wyatt or Sue Richardson. The health authorities for whom the paediatricians worked refused them permission to be interviewed, and Sue Richardson was informed by her then employer – a child welfare charity – that if she appeared in it she would be dismissed. She resigned instead – and her interview was vital in conveying the truth about Cleveland. Two telling sections of the film summed up the entire crisis. The first was a section which showed file footage of one of the Cleveland parents making an emotional appeal on a breakfast television programme: in it – and egged on by host Anne Diamond – he said he had never abused his children and demanded they be allowed home. Yet the truth was that he had been convicted of buggering his children – sometimes in front of his wife: apparently that truth was ignored by Ms Diamond and her team. The second was the discovery that in the wake of the Butler-Sloss enquiry, the Department of Health ordered all records of all the children as a group to be destroyed. When we asked for an explanation, the Department refused to comment. by Tim Tate – Producer/Director of Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths
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Middlesbrough diocese:
Pedophile priest, Father Joseph O’Brien
A SENIOR staff member sacked from a Roman Catholic children’s home for sexually abusing boys went on to become a priest in the same diocese
Father Joseph O’Brien, who served as a priest in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, for 15 years, had previously been dismissed for abusing a number of boys at the St William’s children’s home in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire.
The case casts another shadow over the Roman Catholic Church, which has been the subject of a series of accusations that it harboured priests who abused children.
It also poses questions for Humberside Police, which was made aware of Father O’Brien’s actions but did not interview or arrest him when his history was flagged up in a formal witness statement in 2002. Father O’Brien died in January last year.
He was sacked from his position as deputy principal at St William’s in 1965 and escorted from the building. At that time, Father O’Brien was a member of the De La Salle Brotherhood, a Catholic lay order which ran the home, and was known as Brother Ambrose O’Brien.
The dismissal was formally reported to the board of managers at the home, which was part of the Middlesbrough Diocese.
But in 1972, while still a member of the De La Salle Brotherhood, he asked the then Bishop of Middlesbrough, the late Bishop John McClean, if he could train to become a priest.
The diocese has told the Yorkshire Post that the bishop sought a reference from De La Salle but was not told why Father O’Brien had been sacked from St William’s.
De La Salle has confirmed it did not in its reference say why the then Brother Ambrose O’Brien was sacked. But the brotherhood also pointed out the diocese held recorded evidence of the dismissal.
He was consequently able to train at Ushaw College in Durham and was ordained in 1975.
Father O’Brien went on to serve at churches in Middlesbrough before moving to North Yorkshire, and had a 15-year spell at All Saints in Thirsk, from where he retired in 1998.
When he died last year, aged 87, the diocese held a funeral Mass attended by the current bishop – Bishop Terry Drainey – and 20 other priests.
The diocese published details of the Mass on its website, including the homily, but there was no reference to Father O’Brien’s dismissal from St William’s.
The Yorkshire Post can also reveal that Humberside Police, which has previously been censured by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) over failings in its investigation into St William’s, was told about Father O’Brien’s sacking, along with suggestions that he might have gone on to abuse other children while a priest.
A witness statement provided on January 23, 2002 by Noel Hartnett, who was himself the subject of investigation but cleared of any wrongdoing, directly identified Father O’Brien as a perpetrator. Mr Hartnett, a former Brother at the home, informed two detectives why Father O’Brien was sacked and told them that he himself was present when the home’s principal carried out the dismissal.
He also told them a priest in the diocese had approached him during the early 1990s for information on Father O’Brien because the priest had heard of allegations of more recent abuse. Mr Hartnett told police the priest said he was compiling a dossier to send to the bishop.
The priest, who has since retired and is into his 80s, denied the existence of any dossier
Stuart Bell was at Dolphin Square
And her husband, a judge in KENYA
News of the World 17 July 1988
“The News of the World carried an article about Butler-Sloss’s husband.
Under the front-page headlines “Cleveland Judge Sex Scandal” and “Dame’s randy spouse frolics with vice girls” was an article reporting that he was a judge in Kenya and was ‘associating’ with prostitutes.”
http://www.c-g.org.uk/issues/shame/debs/content.htm
Asked who instigated the Cleveland inquiry in 2003 Lady Butler-Sloss replied: “I think it was my brother actually as Lord Chancellor.”
A recently discovered article from Capital Gay magazine reveals how libel threats were used to silence newspapers who reported on the Elm Guest House paedophile ring. The Attorney General, Sir Michael Havers, would personally investigate complaints from lawyers representing Elm Guest House.
Sir Michael Havers
Sir Michael Havers played a leading role in theSir Peter Hayman cover-up, and told Geoffrey Dickens not to name the paedophile diplomat in Parliament. Havers argued that Hayman should have retained his anonymity, and didn’t think the British public needed to know that powerful Establishment figures abused children.
Scotland Yard denied the allegations made by the Daily Express that the guest house’s visitor list included three MPs and a member of Buckingham Palace staff. A spokesman for Elm Guest House told Capital Gay “these were professional business people. We are talking about barristers, doctors, a couple of priests and a vicar”.
We now know that these “professional people” were almost certainly all child abusers. One of the barristers who visited Elm Guest House was Colin Peters QC, who was later jailed for his part in “Britain’s biggest child sex ring” which had over 150 victims. One of the priests who visited the guest house was Father Tony McSweeney, who was arrested by Operation Fernbridge in January.
It’s clear that Scotland Yard, Sir Michael Havers, and the Elm Guest House lawyers were all following the same script. It’s easy to blame the press for their part in the cover-up, but they were up against the most senior police and law officers in the country.
The most striking thing about the article is the strenuous denial of any link to the murder/disappearance of Vishal Mehrotra and Martin Allen, both of whom disappeared not far from Rocks Lane bewtween 1979 and 1981. Vishal Mehrotra went missing on the night of the Royal Wedding in 1981, when the Elm Guest House paedophiles were having a ‘Kings and Queens party’.
Scotland Yard had earlier confirmed to the Express that they were investigating connections between the missing boys and Elm Guest House. “Scotland Yard is expected to reopen files on the murder of one boy and he disappearance of another in their investigation into a VIP homosexual vice network in London.” Full article
Just a couple of months later these connections were “absolute rubbish”…
https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/category/elm-guest-house/page/5/
Murder link to Margaret Thatcher aide accused of raping teenage boy
Exclusive: Police are examining whether Sir Peter Morrison could have been linked to the mysterious death of young Vishal Mehrotra in 1981
Sir Peter Morrison, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party who died in 1995, was a known child molester but was never charged with any crime during his lifetime.
Now police are examining whether the MP for Chester could have had any link to the unsolved murder of eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra in 1981.
Last week a 46-year-old man told the Telegraph that Morrison raped him when he was 14, and claimed Scotland Yard covered it up.
Four months after Vishal’s remains were found, police raided the Elm Guest House and questioned dozens of men, reportedly including at least 30 prominent public figures and businessmen.
Mehrotra said: “This guesthouse was right next to where Vishal disappeared. There were predatory people there who were taking young boys and abusing them. It seems to me that it all adds up, so I can’t understand why the police have again failed to get in contact with me. I think the revelations of [Jimmy] Savile and others in recent months have opened up a Pandora’s box.
First account of sexual assault at Elm Guest House by Peter Morrison. Didn’t Met say recently no witnesses?
and from the same twitter sleuth
Peter Morrison met boy in Harting, West Sussex, Summer 1982. Vishal Mehrotra’s body found Rogate, 3 miles away, Feb 1982.
Vishal Mehrotra’s body found at Durford Abbey Farm, 3 Miles from Rogate. Less than 3 miles from Harting.
MP for nearby Petersfield in 1982 was Michael Mates. Of Dolphin Square fame.
Michael Mates lived at Durford Mill, Harting. Mehrotra body found Durford Abbey Farm
Red Circle Durford Abbey Farm – Mehrotra. Orange Circle Durford Mill – Mates. 200 metres!
(Michael Mates, 902 Hawkins House, Dolphin Square. Nicholas Fairbairn, 705 Hawkins House, Dolphin Square.)
Nicholas Fairbairn and Michael Mates visit Rhodesia together. Nicholas Fairbairn had affair with Charles Morrison’s secretary. It got messy, and Michael Mates helped clean up
http://m.theargus.co.uk/news/national/11614236._Cover_up__fear_over_boy_s_murder/
Was Thatcher pressurised to make a work-shy, drunk, loose-lipped, red-faced paedosadist her PPS? Just wondering!
Why did Thatcher commit political suicide by making a drunken, lazy paedosadist her Personal Private Secretary? Was he the best available?
Sir Peter Morrison organised a small Conservative dining group. Leon Brittan was a member.
Other members…Sir George Young, Alan Clark, Tim Renton (supporter of paedophile Bishop Ball)…
my sweet landlord:
Sir Peter Morrison was at Eton with @JWPAitken, and best man at his wedding. Hope is he called by #CSAInquiry.
Sir Peter Morrison was at Eton with @JWPAitken, and best man at his wedding. Hope is he called by #CSAInquiry.
As PPS to Sir Peter Morrison 1985-90 @IanTwinn will presumably have already given a statement to Operation Fernbridge? If not, why not?
Ian Twinn
1985-1990
Parliamentary private secretary Peter Morrison, DTI, Energy
Margaret Thatcher with Ian Twinn 1983
People linked to Cleveland …Leon Brittan (MP for Cleveland & Whitby), Butler Sloss, her brother Michael Havers, Jimmy Savile, Jaconelli, Wilf Proudfoot
Leon Brittan
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Baroness Sloss was appointed to Cleveland abuse inquiry by brother Michael Havers
The retired judge leading the Westminster abuse probe has revealed she was appointed to run a previous sex abuse inquiry by her late brother, Lord Havers, when he was Lord Chancellor.
Baroness Butler-Sloss has been under scrutiny over her suitability to investigate claims of a child-sex ring at Westminster because of a potential conflict of interest over her Establishment connections.
Yesterday, it was claimed she had kept allegations about a bishop out of a report on a paedophile scandal because she “cared about the church”.
Now, she faces fresh criticism over her admission of the key role of Lord Havers in the Cleveland child sex abuse inquiry in 1987 which she led.
Asked who instigated the Cleveland inquiry in 2003 Lady Butler-Sloss replied: “I think it was my brother actually as Lord Chancellor.”
Tory child abuse whistleblower: ‘Margaret Thatcher knew all about underage sex ring among ministers’
Former activist Anthony Gilberthorpe says he sent Thatcher a 40-page dossier in 1989 accusing Cabinet members of abusing underage boys
Anthony Gilberthorpe says he sent her a 40-page dossier in 1989 accusing Cabinet members of abusing underage boys at drug-fuelled conference parties.
Mr Gilberthorpe, who claims he was ordered to recruit boys for the ministers, says he posted the “graphic” allegations to Mrs Thatcher after befriending her.
Mr Gilberthorpe, who was a young Tory hopeful when he was asked to recruit for the parties, said: “I outlined exactly what I had witnessed and informed her I intended to expose it.
“I had met Mrs Thatcher on several occasions and even presented her with a birthday cake in 1983. I believed she had to know.”
He said that being overlooked for the safe Tory seat of Gloucester in April 1986 made up his mind to shop the ministers. “I believe I was stitched up and it gave me an insight into the treacherous nature of the party,” he added.
“It was one of the reasons I decided reveal what I’d witnessed. I made it very clear to Mrs Thatcher most trusted ministers had been at these parties with boys who were between 15 and 16.
“I also told her of the amount of illegal drugs like cocaine that were consumed.
“I underlined the names of Keith Joseph, Rhodes Boyson and one MP still serving today. I also said I had seen Michael Havers at a party in Blackpool held at the hotel pool in 1983.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-child-abuse-whistleblower-margaret-3849172
Former Attorney General Sir Michael Havers is today accused of passing on state secrets to a rent boy in the aftermath of a sordid sex party in Westminster.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-conservative-mp-revealed-secrets-4030872
Martin Walkerdine @mwalkerdine
YORKSHIRE RIPPER PETER SUTCLIFFE LINKED TO TWO UNSOLVED MURDERS IN SWEDEN IN THE 1980
The Yorkshire Ripper and the unsolved Swedish murders
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_ripper_and_the_swedish_murders …
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Who were the Ripper’s defence team, Martin?
Martin Walkerdine @mwalkerdine
James Chadwin QC was Sutcliffe’s Counsel.
Micheal Havers was prosecution.
Chadwin also defended Arkwright. https://www.southyorkshiretimes.co.uk/news/wath-murderer-arkwright-too-dangerous-for-release-1-614989 …
“Prosecutor” Havers
The need for an inquiry was taken up in the House of Commons by Yorkshire MPs, who also attacked the Attorney-General, Sir Michael Havers, for his role in the prosecution. Sir Michael opened the 15-day trial by telling the judge, Sir Justice Boreham, he did not believe that Sutcliffe was guilty of murder. He told the judge he accepted the view of doctors who diagnosed Sutcliffe as a schizophrenic.
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1981/may/23/1
Michael Havers, brother of child abuse inquiry judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was accused of ‘cover up’
Late brother of Baroness Butler-Sloss, judge in charge of Westminster child abuse inquiry, was attorney general who refused to prosecute paedophile spy Sir Peter Hayman
Stuart Bell listed on Elm Guest House list
The name “Stuart Bell” appears on the Elm House documents, though it is not clear if it refers to the late MP for Middlesbrough.
He chose to resign his post after the Cleveland child abuse scandal which occupied two years of his life, after making unsubstantiated accusations of ‘clinical error’ against local paediatricians and child sexual abuse specialists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Bell
He then played a pivotal role in the passage of the Children Act which, he said, replaced “confusing, unfair” laws. Sir Stuart helped draft the new law and was instrumental in its passage.
he was appointed Second Church Estates Commissioner to handle relations between church and state.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/stuart-bell—miners-son-3669656
Neil Kinnock brought Bell on to the front bench as a Northern Ireland spokesman.
By his mid-30s miner’s son Stuart Bell, , was a millionaire international lawyer and a Name at Lloyd’s with homes and offices in Paris and London, and had written his first novel. The book was a raunchy semi-autobiographical story of little literary merit…
Intent on becoming “a writer” he relocated to Paris, where he worked as a clerk in a law firm among whose clients was the European office of Walt Disney.
With such a prestigious client he quickly found others, including Hewlett Packard and General Motors, and started to specialise in the lucrative area of European trade and international tariffs. His success was speedy and he expanded to offices in the exclusive Avenue Montaigne, premises that had been the wartime headquarters of American Forces (complete with an “Oval Office”).
Although he had borrowed a house in the constituency from his Daily Mirror friend while contesting Hexham, and as a city councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne (1981-83), his jet-setting pursuit of politics soon started to eat into his fortune. First he had to sacrifice his magnificent country home (swimming pool, tennis court) in Chantilly, outside Paris, then his young mistress, and finally his senior partnership in a firm that employed more than a dozen lawyers, and along with it his apartment (Eiffel Tower view) in Avenue Montaigne. Until his election, when he became entitled to an MP’s salary of £15,308, he was reduced to seeking work as a barrister on the Northern Circuit.
Malcolm Bell, son of Middlesbrough MP Stuart Bell, stole blank cheques from the office of George Galloway MP while working for his father as a House of Commons researcher.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1766321.stm
Wilf Proudfoot was Member of Parliament for Cleveland, his secretary, Christine Holman (the future Christine Hamilton)
Radio 270 was also attacked in Parliament. Mr Proudfoot had previously been a Conservative MP and, as someone with an interest in politics, offered late night airtime on his station to various politicians. Harvey Proctor, a student at the University of York and Chairman of the University Conservative Association, was invited to produce a number of half-hour political programmes for Radio 270. Right-wing Tory MP Patrick Wall took part in one show during which he spoke in favour of recognising the illegal Smith regime in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Government MPs were incensed but Mr Proudfoot defended his actions by saying that Labour representatives had been offered equal time, but had turned it down. The political broadcasts continued. Harvey Proctor later became an MP himself, representing Basildon from 1979 to 1983 and Billericay from 1983 to 1987, before a sex scandal ended his Parliamentary career.
Heath’s autobio covers the fact that he used Young Conservatives for ‘information gathering and propoganda’ assistance.
http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/270b.htm
Radio 270’s office was run by Maggie Lucas (now Maggie White) and, DJ Noel Miller’s then wife, Carole. Maggie casts her mind back:
Maggie Lucas.
“I had previously worked for (Managing Director) Wilf Proudfoot when he was Member of Parliament for Cleveland and this was how I came to work for 270 some months after it went to air. In the interest of economy the office had moved into the large family room at the Proudfoots’ Scarborough home, adjacent to the purpose-built offices of the Proudfoot Supermarkets.
Savile and Cleveland – Saltburn
Saltburn fixed it for Jimmy.
Sir Jimmy replied and said: “Saltburn, Teddy’s Nook and the Kellys was my first taste of the grand life. Such space inside and out, such views.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Saltburn+fixed+it+for+Jimmy.-a0271520091
The Cottage, Teddys Nook, Marine Parade, Saltburn-by-the-sea, Cleveland
It was JS’ cousins (the Kelly family) who rented ‘The Cottage’ in Saltburn – and he was a frequent visitor apparently. It is actually a mini-mansion in spite of its modest name. The Cottage is nick-named ‘Teddy Nook’ because in the 1870s Lillie Langtry entertained the future Edward VII there.
Lillie Langtry
She was also known for herrelationships with noblemen, including the Prince of Wales, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Prince Louis of Battenberg.
Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related to members of the British Royal Family.
He married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and was the father of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who also served as First Sea Lord from 1954 to 1959. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, is his grandson.
In April 1879, Langtry had a short affair with Prince Louis of Battenberg
Lillie Langtry allegedly bore him an illegitimate daughter, Jeanne Marie
In June 1880, she became pregnant. Her husband was not the father; she led Prince Louis to believe that he was.
Prince Louis’ son, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, had always maintained that his father was the father of Jeanne Marie.[23]
Langtry’s father was Rector and Dean of Jersey he nevertheless earned an unsavoury reputation as a ‘ladies man’ fathering illegitimate children by various of his parishioners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillie_Langtry
Langtry was a regular in high society- and counted Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle as close friends
Langtry became an American citizen in 1897 and died in Monte Carlo in 1929 aged 75.
She is rumoured to have been the inspiration for the character of Irene Adler in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tale A Scandal In Bohemia.
AMONG the women who were to succeed Lillie as the antidote to Bertie’s boredom was the voluptuous Mrs Alice Keppel, daughter of a baronet, whose husband’s forbearance was rewarded by membership of the Royal Victorian Order.
Our own Prince of Wales, Bertie’s great-great grandson, is not a serial philanderer – for would not the tabloids tell us? – but it is a neat symmetry that Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles, cited by Princess Diana as the third person in her unhappy marriage, should be Alice Keppel’s great-granddaughter
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7134029.Teddy_s_Nook_and_a_royal_dalliance/
Teddy Nook
http://northeasthistorytour.blogspot.com/2012/01/teddys-nook-nz666216.html
Sir Jimmy Savile, who died in October aged 84, had a strong link to Saltburn, in particular to the large villa overlooking the pier known as Teddy’s Nook. He praised his friendship with the family who owned the house to his success in his career. It was owned in the 1930s by Bill Kelly, of Middlesbrough stockbrokers Stancliffe’s, and his wife was Jimmy’s aunt Meg. Jimmy, who then lived in a workaday part of Leeds, used to visit Teddy’s Nook and enjoyed holidays with his cousins, as the Kelly’s had a large family. Mike Morrissey, of Saltburn, discovered the link when Jimmy replied to a letter he wrote to him via St James’s Hospital, Leeds, where Jimmy worked as a volunteer. “Saltburn, Teddy’s Nook and the Kelly’s was my first taste of the grand life. Such space, inside and out, such views,” wrote the larger-than-life celebrity, charity fund-raiser, and marathon runner. “Auntie Meg was my mother’s sister. By a fluke she married someone called Kelly, the same as her maiden name. “Coming from a low-income family (in those days were were called `poor’) the Kelly household had a great effect on me. “One of my first pre-teen feelings was `If it’s possible for them, surely it must be possible for me.’ “And so it proved, but my bit of success would have been impossible had I not seen it at Saltburn first. All my cousins were quite super and all in all it was a magic experience in a magic place.” The PS to his letter was: “I often sneak into town disguised as Robert de Niro.” Mike wrote to Sir Jimmy because he was researching Teddy’s Nook for a talk he gave to Saltburn and District Retired Men’s Forum in about 1995. “I’ve always felt his memory of the Kelly family and its effect on his career was remarkable,” said Mike. “His letter was written on the other side of my note to him. He signed it with a smily face in the loop of the “J” in his signature. Great!”
http://www.funeralsearch.co.uk/sirjimmy2.php?page=24
Teddy’s Nook – It was also the family home of Audrey Collins MBE, who served as Mayor of Saltburn and chair of the South Tees Health Authority. Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital has named a teaching unit in her honour.
Audrey Collins MBE lived at the nook from 1960-87
https://issuu.com/seasalt/docs/tott_june2017
Audrey Collins who lived in the same house that Savile visited, and who was fond of Leon Brittan
What do they know – Cleveland
Day 3 – 13.8.1987: Christopher Payne (Cleveland Constabulary); Audrey Collins, Regina Shakespeare and Ian Donaldson …
The Cleveland Report:by Judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
The parents generally praised the South Tees Health Authority
Audrey Collins pg 56 –
She was a keen supporter of Leon Brittan…”a wonderful MP for Saltburn”
Cleveland police refused to investigate signs of anal abuse and publicly condemned doctors and social services for intervening. The Government (Butler Sloss’ brother Michael Havers) called in a judge, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, to sort it out.
Contrary to myth, her report did not dispute doctors’ clinical findings of anal abuse.
In Cumbria, as in Cleveland, the police not only did nothing, they did it with determination – they ignored the abuse alarm raised by the forensic pathologist and resisted a mandatory Serious Case Review.
The “gang”
REPORT by Barbara Hewson : Campaigning organisation FACT (Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers)’s Spring Conference on Wrongful Accusations of Abuse was held on May 30th, under the aegis of Cardiff Law School.
The day concluded with a panel discussion and Q & A involving me, the criminal barrister and blogger Matthew Scott (here), Dr Mark Smith of Edinburgh University, former Duncroft resident Susanne Cameron-Blackie (who blogs as ‘Anna Raccoon’), and leading criminal defence solicitor, Chris Saltrese. The subject was how to reduce false allegations.
http://thejusticegap.com/2015/06/the-misery-of-false-allegations/
Comments:
Only just seeing this today ! Good reporting Barbara (Hewson) especially the stories about Police ‘trawling’ for ‘victims’, appalling.
My only gripe would be that neither Mark Smith or ‘Anna Raccoon’ appear to have mentioned the University research project relating to the Savile claims.Much talkof ‘post Savile’ but, he, or rather, his loved ones, have had to endure three years of, what many now believe are ‘false’ claims repeated in the media on an almost daily beside.
Several bloggers including myself have been investigating the Savile claims for more than two years. A fact noted here –
‘So began a three year unofficial investigation into the Duncroft allegations that had sparked the 2012 nationwide Savile Scandal.
Cameron-Blackie collated further information gathered by three other blogging investigators known as Moor Larkin, Rabbitaway and The Rockphiles.’
Here’s the link the more folk know the better. Shame no-one bothered to mention it on the day !
http://thejusticegap.com/2015/06/the-misery-of-false-allegations/
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http://hardcastleintel.blogspot.co.u…r-labeled.html Mister Hardcastle, it transpires, is quite a fan of Anna Racoon aka Susanne Nundy, who has been described on various internet forums as an MI5 disinformation agent. He gives her a hearty recommendation on his website. Apparently convicted paedophile Jonathan King is also a fan of Mister Hardcastle’s articles and has brought them to the attention of Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian :- https://twitter.com/KingOfHits/statu…28016389713920 Make of that what you will. |
Social work professor denies he is an ‘apologist for child abusers
A PROFESSOR of social work who previously ran secure units for children in Edinburgh where youngsters were sexually abused has claimed the evidence against child abusers can be “flimsy” and he hasn’t come across a case yet where he has been convinced of guilt.
Mark Smith also admitted that when he heard the details of some charges he has thought, “I’ve done that”. The University of Dundee academic previously managed council care homes for traumatised young girls in Edinburgh, including St Katharine’s home.
One former carer at St Katharine’s, Gordon Collins, took advantage of his position of trust to groom, molest and rape teenagers between 1995 and 2006 at the home. He was jailed last year for the historical abuse of four girls. Another man, Kevin Glancy, was jailed in 2008 for possessing 239 pictures and 70 video clips of child abuse.
Smith wrote an article entitled “Criminalising everyday care” for a legal news website about miscarriages of justice.
One campaign group which supports survivors of abuse has described Smith as “an apologist for child abusers”. Smith’s former employer, City of Edinburgh Council, distanced themselves from Smith and insisted all convictions against its former employees are “safe”.
Smith has defended his article, claiming he has not tried to deny “genuine abuses”. His current employer, the University of Dundee, also defended the academic’s right to “freedom of speech”.
Smith said in his article he had “come uncomfortably close to cases of historical abuse over the past dozen or so years” and had given evidence to both prosecution and defence and been a witness in cases where he has “worked directly with the accused”.
He wrote: “I have not come across a case yet where I have been convinced of guilt. In fact I have been horrified by the flimsiness, indeed the banality, of the evidence that finds its way to court. Not only that, I found myself thinking on hearing of some charges: “I’ve done that”.
Smith, who participated in a Scottish Government review of secure accommodation for young people in 2005, goes on to say the prosecution of historical child abuse cases “owes very little to evidence of actual abuse but is driven by shifting attitudes and assumptions about how to care for children”.
Citing the case of a former colleague who was convicted of abusing boys at a residential school where they both worked in the 1980s – and who Smith said was wrongfully convicted – Smith said when staff showered with young boys “cold water may have been thrown about – bodies flicked with rolled-up towels” and insisted “all of this was done in fun – I don’t believe for a minute that any boy was traumatised”.
Smith said it’s not only “the odd bad apple” who may face prosecution, adding that he fears every carer who worked in a residential setting “risks becoming caught in the cross hairs” of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
Abuse survivor David Whelan, of campaign group Former Boys and Girls Abused (FBGA), was targeted by paedophile John Porteous who was jailed in 2002 for historical sex offences against boys. He said: “Mark Smith fails to recognise that many people were actually convicted of crimes in a court of law. His article is an attempt to discredit genuine victims. I would go as far as to say he’s an apologist for child abusers.
“He’s excusing behaviour that wasn’t normal, such as carers showering with children. When adults did do this they had a propensity to abuse children. In my own case my abuser John Porteous used to shower with the boys. Mark Smith seems to suggest this wasn’t a sexually-motivated act.”
Janine Rennie of Wellbeing Scotland, an organisation that supports survivors of abuse, said she was “extremely angry” by Smith’s claim that he is unconvinced of the guilt of convicted child abusers.
She said: “Of 1,500 case files we have there’s not one we’d assess in the same way he has. I am concerned that this social work lecturer doesn’t see the significance of child abuse or understand how difficult it is for survivors to talk about their experiences. It takes a huge amount of courage for a survivor to come forward, so these entirely inappropriate views are very dangerous and could discourage people from speaking to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry or indeed the police.”
Abuse survivor Dave Sharp, founder of SAFE (Seek and Find Everyone Abused in Childhood) was beaten and raped by a Christian Brother in a shower room at St Ninian’s school in Fife. He said: “People who make these kinds of comments which play down abuse must be scrutinised.”
A senior source at City of Edinburgh Council said the local authority does not share Smith’s views and they have “no doubt about the safety of convictions” of former residential care staff.
A spokesman for the council added: “The views expressed in no way represent the views of the council and we would refute them. We are co-operating fully with the current Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry. We work closely with Police Scotland and our partner agencies to investigate any allegations of abuse, whether current or historical.”
A spokesman for the University of Dundee said: “One of the core principles of academic freedom is freedom of speech and we support that for all of our academics.”
Smith told the Sunday Herald: “The question I have addressed in my article, which was first published more than four months ago, is one that is of considerable debate – whether the application of modern standards to behaviour that occurred decades ago and in a time of different cultural norms means people are at risk of being unfairly prosecuted or demonised.
“In doing this I have not made reference to specific cases. What I have said is descriptive of practices at the time, which were commonplace and open.
“This is not an attempt in any way to deny genuine abuses that took place or make apologies for truly awful behaviour.
“Of course we do not want to discourage victims of abuse to come forward.
“But we also have to be extremely careful we are not making abusers of people who took part in innocent practices, which is the essence of my article.
“I would stress that I speak on the basis of decades of experience in the area of residential care and claims of abuse.”
Comments:
Sack him and keep him away from children for the rest of his life.
I have worked in child protection cases for a quarter of a century and this man appalls. Whoever has the power to do so please protect children from this loathsome apologist for abusers.
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Here’s a convicted paedophile (Jonathan King) praising research by the Jimmy-Savile-Is-A-Saint brigade trying to whitewash a paedophile who snuffed it before he could be convicted:
Securing a data set on allegations of sexual abuse made against former disc jockey, Jimmy Savile
Dr Mark Smith, Dr Steve Kirkwood and Dr Ros Burnett, The University of Oxford
This project, awarded under an ESRC call for ‘Urgent’ research, aims to secure data that might otherwise be lost, relating to allegations made against the former DJ, Jimmy Savile. The initiative for the project came from a lawyer and writer who is a former resident of Duncroft School (from whence the initial allegations against Savile emanate), and whose blogging activity under the name of ‘Anna Raccoon’ has generated a substantial body of related correspondence and contacts which provide and could lead to information not yet in the public domain. We aim to collate and archive Anna Raccoon’s blog posts, comments on these and to interview key staff and former residents from Duncroft School. The data gathered will be digitally archived and made available to other researchers. It is likely to be of interest to social and cultural historians, criminologists, lawyers and social workers amongst others.
The research team consists of Mark Smith and Steve Kirkwood from Social Work, Clare Llewellyn from Informatics and Ros Burnett, a criminologist from the University of Oxford.
Alan Rusbridger & convicted paedophile Tom O’Carroll
2013
Below is a comment left on this blog by the source of Tom Watson’s PMQ about “a powerful political paedophile ring”. It raises many questions about why The Guardian are still not covering the national scandal of children procured from care homes being abused by rich and poweful paedophiles, while at the same time giving a platform to paedophile activist Tom O’Carroll. When reading this bear in mind that Tom O’Carroll has a conviction for possession of a collection of 50,000 images and films of children as young as 6 being raped and tortured. This was not mentioned in The Guardian’s coverage.
I feel obliged to share with you my correspondence with Alan Rusbridger on the matter and let your followers come to their own conclusions
On January 3rd Jon Henley wrote an article in the Guardian entitled ” Paedophilia : bringing dark desires to light ”
I wrote to the Editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, the following :-
I was a Guardian reader for over 40 years until you made the decision to publish an article described by Tom O’Carroll on his website as ” the first I have ever seen in a mainstream media outlet giving significant coverage to research suggesting that paedophilia is not intrinsically harmful.That was superb, confirming my long held view that Alan Rusbridger is the best ever editor of the world’s greatest English – language newspaper. ”
O’Carroll goes in to great detail on his website about the actual process by which you and Jon Henley made contact with him – what a disgrace you are, allowing this man to view it as a great triumph for him because that is exactly how I viewed it despite your pathetic attempt to justify publishing the article and Henley’s response to Tom Watson MP. ( see Tom Watson’s blog )
Tom O’Carroll is a clever but very dangerous and evil man.
I am as qualified as anyone after 37 years working in child protection and specialising for many years in the investigation of child sexual abuse and the investigation of highly organised rings to know the full extent of the harm done to children and young people by predatory paedophiles like O’Carroll
I am the person who contacted Tom Watson which led to his PMQ on October 24th last year. Before Christmas I agreed to be interviewed by one of your most senior journalists – that now feels like a big mistake given your coverage of O’Carroll’s views and what came across to me as an attempt to find positives in what is one of the most heinious crimes in any society.
( I provided the Guardian with all the information I passed to Tom Watson but not one word of it has appeared in print by them to date )
You should be heading a campaign to close down sites like O’Carroll’s and I strongly believe he should be arrested for the content alone. The almost total lack of coverage by the British media of the events leading up to the setting up of Operation Fernbridge, despite the availability of numerous potential stories that are not sub judice linked to high level historic abuse, is exceptionally worrying.
Paedophiles like Savile, Peter Morrison, Cyril Smith, Sir Peter Hayman were so confident of establishment support they didn’t need to operate in secret they could be as indiscreet as they wished knowing that even if they came to the attention of the Police nothing would come of it and the full weight of the Attorney General and The Director of Public Prosecutions and their underlings would be brought in to play ” in the public interest ”
In what way was ” our ” collective national security protected by the security services when they covered up Cyril Smith’s systematic abuse of children ? ”
The vast majority of the population of this country know that national security when used in these circumstances has absolutely nothing to do with ” our ” collective security but everything to do with being a cover for sustaining the power of the wealthy and privileged.
Your newspaper and you and Jon Henley in particular have very badly let that vast majority down – after Savile we had the opportunity for this to be a watershed moment but the backlash started by the allegedly mistaken identity of a certain individual has gathered momentum and if I had been told that the Guardian would be in the vanguard of that backlash I would never have believed it ”
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger
This is the reply I received from Alan Rusbridger :-
” Thanks for your letter.
I thought Jon Henley wrote an intelligent piece about the mixed academic and medical opinion on paedophilia.
I did not take it to be in any way a defence of child sexual abuse or paedophilia.
I think it desirable, not irresponsible, to write seriously about in-depth research into this disturbing area of life.
I was interested to read about how thinking had changed over time and to hear from a range of experts who deal with offenders
It was,to my mind, a calm and informative piece.
Tom O’Carroll’s speculation as to the genesis of the piece is wide of the mark. We did briefly meet at the Guardian’s readers’ week-end earlier last year. But this had no connection with Jon Henley’s piece.
You will be aware that the Guardian was responsible for exposing the case of mistaken identity to which you refer in your final paragraph. I don’t accept that the paper is in the ” vanguard” of any ” backlash ” after the unmasking of Savile. Our article about Lord McAlpine was of a peice with the intelligent approach that Henley showed in his own article.This is, I accept, a difficult subject and the Gurdian will continue to cover it thoroughly and calmly ”
I contacted Alan Rusbridger a week ago to advise him that I intended to post our respective views on your website
I have not received a response so must assume he has no objection
https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/alan-rusbridger-convicted-paedophile-tom-ocarroll/
http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/jailed-for-vile-child-porn-stash-1-945543
In November 1985, Rusbridger had a brief stint as a Royal reporter following the Prince and Princess of Wales around Melbourne, Australia.
https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/diana-princess-of-wales/charles-amazed-lady-dis-yes/
He is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation,[23]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Rusbridger
Set in a wooded and pastoral countryside, Ditchley lies twelve miles north of Oxford, and within easy reach of Heathrow Airport and Central London. The original owners, the Lee Family, had hosted English monarchs there since the days of Queen Elizabeth I. The use of the house as an international conference centre aptly reflects its history and its transatlantic heritage. Built in the eighteenth century, this residence has served as the site of a number of distinguished international meetings, most notably during World War II when it occasionally became the weekend retreat of Sir Winston Churchill.
http://www.ditchley.co.uk/the-foundations
Like the similar Bilderberg meetings, discussions are private and non-attributable.
Ditchley Foundation:
Shami Chakrabarti, CBE. Director of Liberty/NCCL
Baroness Virginia Bottomley – Formerly Secretary of State for Health and for National Heritage.
Malcolm Rifkind
Jack STRAW
Lord HURD
Michael HOWARD
Lord CARRINGTON
David CAMERON.
Rt Hon. Dominic GRIEVE,
http://www.ditchley.co.uk/the-foundations/the-ditchley-foundation/honorary-governors
Ralph Underwager and the Cleveland child abuse inquiry
Most people’s memory of the Cleveland child abuse scandal in 1987 would be of a nationionwide media storm involving ‘falsely accused’ parents whose children had been taken away by over-zealous social workers who had misdiagnosed child sexual abuse.
But the truth was much darker. The majority of the children had been sexually abused and many were subsequently made to return to the homes they were abused in. The Department of Health “actively withheld and concealed” evidence from an independent panel which showed that 93 of the 121 Cleveland children had been found by the courts to be at risk of abuse.
In 1989, the Department of Health destroyed all records relating to the children. Within two years of the original controversy, many of the children had been re-referred to social services.
Frank Cook, Labour MP for Stockton on Tees, said: “I’m astonished and dumbfounded. Had we known what I have only just now learnt, then it would have made a major difference to the Children’s Act and to attitudes to abuse”.
The Butler-Sloss inquiry into the Cleveland case heard evidence from an American ‘child abuse expert’ called Ralph Underwager. He spoke out on behalf of the ‘falsely accused’ parents and many of his recommendations made their way into the Butler-Sloss report. The Butler-Sloss report, as Frank Cook pointed out, went on to influence both Children’s Act and also the subsequent handling of countless child abuse inquiries.
A few years later, Ralph Underwager was exposed by an interview he gave to a European paedophile magazine called Paidika, in which he said child sexual abuse was “God’s Will”.
Here are some extracts from the interview, which can be found here:
Underwager: Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love….Paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness they can say, “I believe this is in fact part of God’s will
Elizabeth Butler Sloss and Camilla
Cleveland Police investigating ’20 to 30′ historic child sexual abuse cases
Force confirm that they are looking into “historic cases” in the wake of coverage of high profile sexual abuse cases
2014
Retired senior judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was named as the chairwoman of a wide-ranging review into historical child sex abuse.
Baroness Butler-Sloss led the Cleveland child abuse inquiry in the late 1980s.
However after pressure because of her family links with the case – including a call from former Redcar MP and solicitor general Vera Baird to stand down – the former judge confirmed she would withdraw from the post.
Butler-Sloss had faced intense criticism because her brother, the late Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general during the 1980s when reports of child abuse were allegedly not examined properly.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/report_on_abuse_of_children_in_c#incoming-969186
As LBTH’s Prescott, Davies & Starling prosecuted, why secrecy?Islington produced part their1995 Report.|
@PaulConnolly11https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/158173/response/382362/attach/4/The%20White%20Report%20redacted.pdf …
Islington Council orders new inquiry into ex-mayor’s alleged pro-paedophile past
21 September 2017
The proposed inquiry will explore evidence that the councillor who oversaw social services as Islington’s horrific abuse scandal came to light in the early 1990s had been a member of a pro-paedophile organisation.
The Gazette reported earlier this year on ex-councillor Sandy Marks’ alleged links to a clandestine group called Fallen Angels, which was supportive of paedophilia and lobbied for paedophile rights.
She denies these allegations.
Now a top barrister has said the Gazette’s investigation calls into question the validity of an earlier independent report into child abuse at Islington’s care homes, the White Report
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Nettie Pollard PIE Member #70, Barry Prothero, former PIE Chairman Tom O’Carroll, Fallen Angels Tim Brown, Sandy Marks and Adrian Fulford
Adrian Fulford – an adviser to the Queen
Lord Justice Fulford backed paedophile campaign
Islington
27 July 2017
Town hall takes step toward reopening investigation…but survivors’ groups urge caution
Islington Council has appointed a pair of top lawyers to examine evidence linking former mayor Sandy Marks to a pro-paedophile campaign group in the early 1980s, and whether a government inquiry into the rape and assault of children over at least three decades could have been skewed.
James Goudie QC and Holly Stout have been asked to advise the council whether or not this newspaper’s investigation “could reasonably be said to call in question the integrity of the White Report” – the Department of Health’s 1995 probe that found no evidence of organised child abuse, but heavily criticised the council’s response to the allegations.
Dr Davies greeted the lawyers’ appointment with caution, pointing out Mr Goudie QC – a deputy high court judge – is acting for Lambeth Council over its own kids’ abuse scandal. Lambeth admitted liability last year for the abuse that took place at the Shirley Oaks home, but survivors were dismayed this week to discover the council – under Mr Goudie QC’s direction – would administer the payout scheme itself instead of appointing an independent panel as is usual.
In addition, eligibility criteria for receiving payouts mean many survivors will miss out, according to a spokesperson for Lambeth survivors’ group Shirley Oaks Survivors’ Association.
As survivors, SOSA is appalled that this man is being selected.”
Dr Davies said: “We were hoping for a QC with a criminal law background, or children’s law – [Mr Goudie’s] background is public administration, which made us think he’s been brought in to defend the council.”
She also questioned the terms of reference, saying: “We wouldn’t have phrased it like that.
“‘Call into question the integrity of the White Report’? We didn’t think it had much integrity. We’ve been criticising it [for years].
“I was the social worker who said 61 children were victims of a network of abuse and [yet] the White Report said there was no evidence of a network. That completely undermined all the work I was doing.”
Dr Davies said she would have preferred the lawyers to examine not just the White Report, and the 13 internal Islington Council probes that led up to it, but the period afterwards at the town hall.
And she said it was vital that the lawyers interviewed social workers and councillors from the time rather than simply carrying out a “paper exercise” – an area in which she believes the White Report failed.
Both Mr Goudie QC and Ms Stout are from the 11 King’s Bench Walk chambers in the City.
Islington’s pro-paedophile activists’ network: Roger Moody and Sandy Marks
n March 1991 Roger Moody, pro-paedophile rights campaigner and paedophile political activist, wrote to the Islington Gazette (address given as Liverpool Road, N1), identifying himself “as a youth worker who until recently worked in a school-based youth project”.
Was Roger Moody employed in Islington as a youth worker based within a school? Which school was he working within? Was Islington Council his employer?
Within 18 months of Moody losing his job, the Evening Standard exposed the extent to which Islington’s children’s homes had been infiltrated by paedophiles, pornographers and pimps.
The third meeting of the Conspiracy Against Public Morals committee (PIE’s legal defence publicists, strategists and fundraisers) gathered on 11 September 1979.
Six months’ previously in April 1979 Moody had been acquitted of 4 counts of indecent assault and 1 count of attempted buggery on a 10 year old boy — with the help of a character witness statement from an MP read out in court for his defence.
CAPM attendees included NCCL’s former and future Gay Rights Officers, Nettie (PIE Member No 70) Pollard and Barry Prothero, PIE Chairman and defendant Tom O’Carroll, Fallen Angels Tim Brown and Sandy Marks (future Islington councillor and Chair of Social Services Committee) and Adrian Fulford (now Lord Justice Adrian Fulford — Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales).
Was Roger Moody the Roger in attendance at the CAPM committee alongside Sandy Marks? If so, was Sandy Marks aware Roger Moody, as an out and proud self-proclaimed paedophile worked with children in Islington and continued to do so until at least 1991? If aware of Moody’s views on the positive benefits paedophiles bring to the social welfare of children when working in child-care roles, did Sandy Marks take any steps once serving on the Social Services Committee from 1982 to ensure Roger Moody’s ability to work with children was curtailed?
Roger Moody c. 1970-71, youth worker for Bemerton Adventure Playground, Copenhagen Street, Barnsbury
James Goudie QC and Holly Stout’s recent report for Islington Council recommends further independent investigation into Sandy Marks and her role in the 1995 White Report, and states that evidence should be examined as to “the nature, extent and duration of Sandy Marks’ involvement in Fallen Angels, and any other pro-paedophile groups;”
Two other pro-paedophile groups with links to Islington were Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and Paedophile Action for Liberation (PAL), both of which Roger Moody contributed to meetings and newsletters of, hoping to shape their thinking along more radical socialist revolutionary lines.
The extent to which all of these pro-paedophile lobbying groups, including Fallen Angels, were able to gain influence and traction in a council which its own Chief Executive declared “vulnerable to lobbying groups”(1) is the wider context in which to examine Sandy Marks’ conduct, associations and actions, influencers and influence. Therefore Goudie QC’s inclusionary language is to be welcomed. Whether Islington Council listens remains to be seen.
Cassandra Cogno @CassandraCogno:
Did Sandy Marks work in Rising Free bookshop?
Rising Free Bookshop was a distributer of alternative books and pamphlets based in Kings Cross. It was listed in the 1975 book Alternative England and Wales as follows:
Dear Sandy,
Our paths once crossed at the Rising Free Bookshop a long time ago, but it is also a long time since I exposed the Islington child abuse scandal in 1992. I have, ever since, lived and breathed the ongoing issues which that raised. Even recently, various survivors have come forward to me and I have continued to learn about the vast extent of harm that they experienced. There has never been a survivors group in Islington for the victims of the abuse and so I still remain a contact point for those who come forward. I have been trying to assist some of them in locating their files but sadly it seems most files went missing at the time of the exposé in the early 90s.
Sandy Marks chaired the London Borough’s Childrens Regional Planning Committee during the early 90s.
The well worn Times article below provides the police view in 1993 that wealthy businessmen were under surveillance who were linked to a sex ring abusing young people living in children’s homes in the London Borough of Islington which had been a magnet for ‘child molesters’. In this Times article, Sandy Marks is cited as pledging to sack senior staff if the government proved they had acted unprofessionally. There were some changes made in social services management after the Inquiries. Very few abusers were also convicted and some are now deceased but I hope that there will soon be a police-led investigation of the information we have from the 90s and also of the information from all the survivors and witnesses who have now come forward to Islington Survivors Network.
I am struggling to understand why my professional work was so despised at the time leaving me in great difficulty in trying to protect the children.
https://lizdavies.net/2017/05/12/sandy-marks-in-2014-i-asked-for-a-dialogue/ …
if so when bcse Paedophile Action for Liberation’s PO Box address became a PO Box at Rising Free before they folded
https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/426 … see pic of their newsletter header
Paedophile Parallels & Inflatable Boys
February 1977 PAL officially became subsumed into PIE – PIE took over their membership list
Islington Councils’ “flop” choice of “top” lawyer
Islington Council said it was “shocked and concerned” and promised to set up an inquiry led by a “top” lawyer to examine new evidence relating to a former mayor, Sandy Marks, pro-paedophile past.
Yet they have chosen a lawyer James Goudie [5] who is acting for Lambeth Council over its own child rape scandal see Islington Council takes step toward reopening kids’ abuse investigation…but survivors’ groups aren’t happy[6]
James Goudie QC
If that was not bad enough, child abuse campaigners have long thought that the networks in the two boroughs were connected eg 2013 Were Islington and Lambeth paedophile rings connected? [2]
How can a lawyer possibly investigate the abuse network on one hand and yet also have acted for a culpable party of the abuse network on the other? How can he be seen to be impartial and fair or independent?
Further to that, in this case he is acting for both simultaneously. It is a cut and dried conflict of interest. Goudie should choose to resign. He cannot possibly continue with this conflict of interest. Victims and survivors will not be able to trust him knowing the job he is doing now.
On the offchance that even with his insider knowledge of Lambeth abuse, Goudie does not realise this conflict of interest, I have sent this article to him.
How can the Council leader Watts possibly pretend Goudie is “independent”? He promised “we will appoint an independent QC to examine the evidence…” [4] He is not independent. Simple, choose again.
The terms of reference – what a mess. Everyone knows that Inquiries have many times in the past been deliberately limited by their terms of reference.
The Council appears to be trying to pass off as the parameters of the investigation “to advise the council whether or not this newspaper’s investigation “could reasonably be said to call in question the integrity of the White Report”” [6]
This is not only far too narrow, but is actually absurd. Setting up an inquiry into whether a relatively quick and small but revealing investigation, essentially about 1 person, could reasonably be said to question the integrity of an already discredited Report?
What if the answer is Yes, which already is quite clear, what then? What a waste of time, but perhaps that is the intention?
The terms of reference of the inquiry should be to find out the truth of what happened, to find out the facts.
Sandy Marks was Mayor and Social Services Committee Chair but she also chaired the London Boroughs Regional Planning Committee between 1991-5 which made decisions about putting children into secure units.
However Sandy Marks is just one person who was politically influential at the time. There are many others that need to be looked at.
John Rea Price for example was the Director of Social Services for a long time, 1972-92. He must have some comment to make about this scandal which took place during his time in Islington. Surely he can be helpful to survivors now and reveal what he knows?
There was abuse in 22 Islington homes and foster placements over 40 years with many abusers and facilitators. To have an inquiry into one mayor would appear to be not only failing the children for which Islington Council had a Duty of Care, but also negligent.
It is surely time that the Inquiries of the 1990’s must be revisited as part of a police led investigation.
This decision has been botched by Islington in an arrogant, ignorant and crass manner.
Councillor Watts “stressed the council today is a “very different organisation” and said child protection is a top priority.”
It does not seem to be.
https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/islington-councils-flop-choice-of-top-lawyer/
Lambeth Council without Chief Exec after Leader Lib Peck reverses decision for independent panel for Shirley Oaks sex abuse victims
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
If there’s one thing the Coon and her Islington buddies ought to be challenging Corbyn on, it’s this and not the NHS
A blind eye to child abuse: Whistleblowers warned Labour leadership favourite Jeremy Corbyn of paedophiles preying on children on his doorstep – but claim he did NOTHING
- Social workers warned Corbyn that child abuse was rife in his Islington constituency in 1992
- ‘We’d been seeing so many 12 to 15-year-olds who were being sexually exploited, we could hardly believe it,’ Liz Davies, one of the five social workers, recalled this week
- Corbyn never wrote to Davies, or telephoned, to acknowledge their meeting, or thank her for seeking to blow the whistle
PIE’s founder, Peter Righton (above) – a prominent social worker later prosecuted for importing child pornography from Holland – was put in charge of training courses on which council staff learned how to care for vulnerable children.
Righton, who had a flat in the borough (as did PIE’s one-time key member, his friend Morris Fraser) once boasted: ‘Every Islington care home manager knows I like boys from 12’
Mr Corbyn was joined in front of the memorial by former mayor Sandy Marks and London Assembly Labour member for Islington Jennette Arnold.
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Yes, but why did the Islington Gazette let child rapist Roger Moody have a column to attack Geoffrey Dickens ?
Self-styled ‘paedophile activist’ Roger Moody
Did the leader of Plaid Cymru give a ‘glowing’ character reference to a paedophile peace activist in 1979?
Timing of Islington/ Sandy Marks story:
It’s also significant …the Corbyn/Islington connection is central.
This story seems to be surfacing just at the right time to further discredit Jeremy Corbyn pre- election – which means that therroristmay has the full dirt – as do the polticos driving her election campaign…
Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair was regularly painted as being part of a north London “Islington set”.
And asked if he was in fact part of an “Islington elite”, Mr Corbyn replied: “I am very proud to represent Islington North.
“It’s absolutely true, there are people in Islington who buy and drink cappuccino every day and I know many of them.
Lyn Cusack
Jimmy Savile sex abuse: ‘Islington is still covering up’
Two decades on from her expose of sexual abuse in children’s homes, Eileen Fairweather talks to the survivors too scared to go public
Michael Gove has asked Islington Council for details of child abuse in the Seventies and Eighties, a scandal after which it shredded every incriminating file, sacked whistleblowers and smeared victims as mentally ill.
The man’s messages to the little girl sounded sweet. He reminded her that he was the friendly volunteer from the hospital, said he missed his poppet and hoped she’d write back. I found his messages online in a forum abroad for sick children. I don’t know if the child replied to him, and cannot now check, because the disease that hospitalised her has killed her. But I desperately hoped she never answered – this cheery guy is an alleged serial child rapist.
This has been claimed by three traumatised women who once lived in a now-notorious Islington children’s home. The man was allowed to take them for “outings” to the park and an Islington worker’s nearby flat. There he allegedly abused them while the others were forced to watch. The youngest was five. The man is also suspected of procuring little girls from the home for Jimmy Savile.
Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, announced in the Commons last month that the Metropolitan Police has identified 21 special schools and children’s homes in which Savile preyed on youngsters. Mr Gove named most, but said that the Islington home’s identity is unknown. I know its name, and suspect that Islington Council guesses it. Mr Gove trustingly asked the north-London council, exposed in the 1990s for employing paedophiles, pimps and child pornographers at all 12 of its children’s homes, to identify it. But how can Islington be trusted to uncover its own cover-up?
The supposed mystery stems from a much larger cover-up by the then-Labour authority to protect the liberty of the evil and the reputations of the ambitious. Children – including dying little girls – are still in danger because few of the scores of perverts who infiltrated Islington’s care system between the Seventies and the Nineties have been brought to justice.
Instead, Islington shredded every incriminating file, sacked whistleblowers and smeared victims as mentally ill.
I worked on the London Evening Standard investigation that first exposed the Islington scandal. Along with a colleague, Stewart Payne, I spent three months in 1992 secretly interviewing terrified whistleblowing staff, parents and children before the newspaper published a damning investigation. It was promptly attacked by then-council leader Margaret Hodge as a “sensationalist piece of gutter journalism”. We were falsely accused of bribing children to make up their heartbreaking stories. Mrs Hodge has since apologised and explained that her officials lied to her.
But the Standard’s then editor, the late Stewart Steven, proved indomitable. He funded us to keep digging – for three long years.
The Standard’s dossiers of evidence generated 13 independent inquiries and won two British Press awards. The final, damning Ian White Report in 1995 responded to the newspaper’s 112-page dossier of evidence. Parents, children and staff reiterated to White the paper’s allegations – including that violent pimps openly collected children from the home, and were even allowed by staff to stay overnight in children’s rooms.
White, then director of Oxfordshire social services, confirmed that Islington allowed at least 26 workers facing “extremely serious allegations” to leave its employ without investigation. Staff accused of everything from rape to child prostitution had been allowed to resign, often with good references. He described Islington as a “classic study” in how paedophiles target children, aided by the council’s naive interpretation of gay rights. “Equal opportunities… became a positive disincentive for challenge to bad practice… and a great danger”.
He called for the 26 staff to be barred from childcare and investigated further, naming them in a confidential annexe. But almost none were. As the scandal raged, Islington destroyed records. Ian White confirmed that “this happened at assistant-director level”. He “found no evidence of collusion”. But he was not allowed to question Islington’s assistant director Lyn Cusack, or her staff.
Mrs Cusack was married to a local senior police officer, Detective Superintendent Don McKay. She resigned in November 1993, citing personal reasons. Days earlier, the Standard had alerted the Social Services Inspectorate to Islington losing evidence requested by three different police forces investigating child sex rings, and the linked Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
Islington was deeply influenced by and had many connection to the Paedophile Information Exchange. In the fatally naïve 1970s to mid 80s, PIE openly campaigned for sex to be legalised with children from age four, and for incest and child pornography to be legalised. The National Council for Civil Liberties – now Liberty – allowed it to affiliate and its then legal officer Harriet Harman wrote a paper effectively backing some PIE demands. The assumption in those “progressive” days was that paedophiles simply loved children and wanted to “liberate” their sexuality.
Mrs Harman, whose role has been exposed in recent media stories, has described Margaret Hodge as her best friend in Parliament. Mrs Hodge’s late husband, Henry Hodge, also an Islington Labour councillor, earlier chaired the National Council for Civil Liberties. It is unknown if they ever discussed PIE.
In 1985, Mrs Hodge announced that Islington Council would positively discriminate in favour of gay staff. It exempted self-declared gay men from background checks, and paedophiles pretending to be decent gay men cynically exploited this. It emerged that Islington deputy superintendent Michael Taylor was in PIE after he received a four-year prison sentence in July 2000 for abusing two boys at Islington’s Gisburne House in the Seventies.
PIE founding member, Peter Righton, then Britain’s top “expert” on children’s homes, had even founded a training course for residential workers. Paedophilia, he declared in one essay, was “no more bizarre than a penchant for redheads”.
At least one Islington abuse victim was placed – by a key member of the Islington abuse ring, Nick Rabet – at a special boarding school outside London with which Righton was closely involved. The victim haltingly disclosed his abuse to his Islington social worker, who was deeply concerned. But in 1989, the social worker vanished, supposedly carrying the victim’s files under his arm. When the Standard asked questions about the school, Islington denied ever sending any child there. It also lied about this to police.
The White Report said that the social worker’s disappearance should be investigated by police. But it never was. This recommendation was redacted from the censored version of the report that Islington published last year. But I still have the original and live in hope of one day tracing that social worker. My understanding is that he was “heavied” and fled abroad.
Police and social services inquiries into PIE were also abruptly shut down. This led to the senior child protection manager bravely blowing the whistle in 2012 to Tom Watson, whose PMQ about an establishment paedophile ring leading to No 10 silenced the Commons. PIE supplied children from homes to wealthy establishment figures. It was the ultimate cross-party crime, which many wanted buried.
Sue Akers was a detective inspector and head of Islington police’s Child Protection Team at the scandal’s height. I begged her to study the paper’s evidence and place a believed child brothel under surveillance. But she refused to meet me. The failure of Islington police to act on intelligence provided by a terrified 13-year-old who admitted recruiting dozens of named children for three pimps was criticised by a secret 1993 inquiry into “Boy A”. But it was suppressed. Akers became a deputy assistant commander, responsible for all Metropolitan Police child-abuse investigations.
Hodge’s successor, Derek Sawyer, ran the council between 1992 and 1994, when the abuse inquiries were set up, and became head of police and probation bodies, and chairman of the London Courts Board. In 2010, Sawyer’s partner in an international education business, Derek Slade, was imprisoned for 21 years for brutally abusing 12 boys at St George’s boarding school in Suffolk. There is no suggestion that Mr Sawyer knew his friend was a paedophile.
As the Islington scandal dragged on, many of the alleged offenders simply moved abroad to prey on even poorer children. Like Jimmy Savile – and the Joker, as I have come to think of the hospital volunteer I mentioned earlier – some accessed children through charity work.
For legal reasons we are unable to name the Joker and have concealed identifying details. The allegations against him were never examined, and it is possible that they are false or result from the confused memories of young children. The Standard was similarly unable at first to name any of the alleged child abusers on Islington’s payroll. But that changed when key ringleaders were arrested abroad. Astonishingly, so-called Third World police managed what Britain’s finest could not.
Nicholas John Rabet, former deputy superintendent of Islington’s home at 114 Grosvenor Avenue, was charged in Thailand in 2006 with abusing 30 local boys – the youngest was six – and killed himself. I was finally able to describe his role in a nationwide child pornography ring serving wealthy British paedophiles; while ex-Cambridgeshire DC Peter Cook went on the record about how police inquiries here were mysteriously closed down.
The arrest and death of fellow ringleader Bernie Bain, former superintendent of Islington’s home at 1 Elwood Street, made it possible to name him. Bain abused numerous boys in his care, including Demetrious Panton, whom Margaret Hodge secretly branded “extremely disturbed” to BBC bosses in an attempt to halt a documentary on what she knew of the scandal. Mr Panton – now a lawyer – forced her to apologise for this cruel slur in the High Court.
Bain left Islington’s employ after Mr Panton, aged 11, revealed his abuse, which the council – influenced by PIE-type thinking – decided was “consensual”. The young victim spent the Eighties writing to Hodge’s councillors protesting otherwise. But Bain was left free to become a millionaire through a mysterious travel company. After the Standard started publishing, he fled to Morocco and was imprisoned there in 1996 for abusing children. He killed himself in 2000.
Detective Chief Superintendent John Sweeney, who took over Islington police’s child protection team after the scandal was exposed, traced long-ignored victims. He told me: “When I first learnt about the homes, I thought it couldn’t possibly be that bad. But it was worse.”
In the years since the White Report of 1995, more victims and abusers have come to light. However, Islington’s wholesale destruction of key files has enabled the council to avoid responsibility. I was asked in 2009 to help a solicitor representing one of Bain’s victims, who now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Islington denied that this person was in their care as a child, and even that they ever employed Bain. The basis of their denial? They had no records for either.
Mr Panton revealed last week: “Just yesterday, I made a witness statement on behalf of someone who was also horribly abused by Bain. I knew him as a kid and his life and health have been destroyed by what happened to him. But Islington has denied any responsibility. So Islington is still covering up.”
I tracked down the Joker last autumn after I was given his details by someone who helped expose the scandal. I have known Shelley, as I shall call her, for many years and trust her forensic mind. She is concerned with protecting his three alleged victims as they remain traumatised. She knew nothing about the girls’ sufferings until Karen, the eldest, broke down and blurted out their story.
They were not yet ready, she said, to talk to the press or police. Many abuse survivors can only reveal what they suffered bit by bit – some suffer a self-protective partial amnesia. One was buggered at just five years old. I asked Shelley if it was possible she was being spun a fantasy. But she remembered the girl from care, and other details about what had occurred there.
Today Shelley has a good job, as does Karen. “Karen is very smart and sophisticated. But when she told me what happened, she fell apart. It was like she’d ripped off a scab. Afterwards she spent the day in bed, just crying.”
It is understood that, as adults in the early Noughties, two of the Joker’s alleged victims contacted the council, hoping for justice; that the council awarded them a smallish sum in compensation; and informed them the man had moved abroad and police could not find him.
Did Islington even alert police? It took me just two days to find him. I wept when I realised that he was accessing terminally ill children in an impoverished country. I discovered from his messages that the expat seemed lonely and kind. He wore funny hats to cheer up the children.
As a volunteer, he now visited them in hospital and at their homes. One unsuspecting mother said he was like a caring older relative in their time of need, and even invited him to stay. I found a photo of him at one hospital. I showed it to Shelley. She wasn’t taken in by his friendly grin: “That’s him. God, he’s ugly.”
When I learnt about the Joker, I spoke to Liz Davies, the former Islington senior social worker who blew the whistle on perverts targeting the council’s homes. Dr Davies is now Reader in Social Work at London Metropolitan University. I asked her how anyone could abuse a dying child. “Dead children can’t give evidence,” said Dr Davies. “There’s a training DVD about it. Some paedophiles target them.”
A reporter anonymously admitted last year that he had found Jimmy Savile on a mattress at the BBC with a little girl. She was bald, a cancer victim at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where Savile “volunteered”. Savile hissed that if the reporter told anyone, his career was over. The reporter stayed silent.
Karen told Shelley: “None of us talked much as kids about what was being done to us… we felt ashamed. But the other girls mentioned being required to travel in Jimmy Savile’s taxis.”
Savile’s charity projects included ferrying disadvantaged children in taxis to places like Blackpool Pleasure Beach. At least one Islington survivor recalls being taken there by his abuser.
Child protection investigators have long been aware that corrupt taxi drivers are commissioned by paedophiles to transport children: “kids on wheels”, it has been called. One taxi driver was imprisoned in 1990 for prostituting boys. The same year, the Islington Gazette proudly recorded Jimmy Savile’s visit to open the council’s new housing complex for disabled people. The story focused on the likes of a three-year-old with cerebral palsy and a paralysed woman who had been at Stoke Mandeville.
Once this story is published, Shelley and I will give police the information we have. But she and the victims do not feel able to confide in police without the protection of media coverage.
What is certain is that neither these victims nor any others have much trust in Islington Council coming clean with the name of the home where abuse took place, as requested by Mr Gove. This is because the current Islington cabinet member with responsibility for children and family services is Joe Caluori – the son-in-law of Margaret Hodge.
Mr Panton said: “Do I think it is right that Margaret Hodge’s son-in-law now has this key position? Of course not. He may be a fine councillor, but I would think it is better that he is not in this position, given the association. While the politicians of the Eighties have moved on, their influence is still highly visible. It cannot be appropriate for any inquiry into this matter to be overseen by this MP’s relative.”
Mr Panton believes that “an independent police investigation into Islington is crucial. I know many abuse survivors who have not yet contacted Islington or the police. There is a real lack of trust – it is hard to tell your story when you risk being disbelieved or attacked.”
The whistleblower Dr Davies adds: “I think there could be more than one home with Savile connections. Children from Islington’s home at 114 Grosvenor Avenue were taken to Jersey by Rabet, and Savile visited Jersey’s Haut de la Garenne home. Survivors of abuse there have described being taken to an Islington children’s home.”
So Margaret Hodges’ successor in Islington was a man who helped paedo Derek Slade obtain a new ID!
he certainly was + the man doing the helping for the PAEDO was #corbyn ELECTION AGENT UNTIL 5 YEARS AGO!
Revealed: How a close male relative of Baby P is linked to a big paedophile network
A close male relative of Baby P was feared to have recruited youngsters in care for a notorious paedophile ring, according to a secret report seen by The Mail on Sunday.
Although he is not believed to have had any contact with Baby P, his involvement in a child abuse scandal in Islington, North London, in the early Nineties raises questions on the extent of checks into Baby P’s background.
‘The family should have been subjected to forensic examination,’ said a child protection expert.
Dangerous ties: A close male relative of Baby P could have recruited children for a paedophile ring
‘Even cursory checks would have rung alarm bells. Social workers might then have removed the baby, as a paediatrician and police pleaded.’
The relative was named in reports as a victim and a feared recruiter of children for pimps.
In the early Nineties he was put in a children’s home.
At the time, all 12 of Islington’s then homes, and at least one of the boarding schools it used, had been infiltrated by paedophiles.
The relative, then a frightened 13-year-old, was under the control of three pimps – Alan, John and George – who persuaded him with money, drugs and threats to bring other children to them.
He tried in vain to blow the whistle and protect himself and other children.He gave social workers the names of others ferried from the homes to, he said, Manor Park, Tottenham, Soho and Westminster to ‘be buggered by old men’.
But none of the men were placed under surveillance or questioned.
Several social workers and managers fought hard to get help for the boy and other children targeted by the paedophiles.
Social worker Neville Mighty was deputy superintendent of Islington’s then unit at 18 Highbury Grove, where pimps slept overnight.
His boss claimed such men were simply ‘boyfriends’ and said Mighty was a prude to repress the children’s sexuality.
Mighty, who had received death threats, had named the relative in a report pleading with Islington’s then director of children’s services, Lyn Cusack, for help.
Ms Cusack, married to a senior policeman, did nothing save threaten disciplinary action because Mighty was ‘rude’. Eventually, in June 1992, Mighty was sacked.
Liz Davies, the senior Islington social worker who encouraged Mighty to go public, said: ‘We got too close. There were too many powerful people involved. Child sex, pornography and sadism are extremely lucrative industries.’
In 1994, a damning independent report criticised the failure of police and social workers to help the relative and to help protect children in care in Islington.
He was convicted of sexually assaulting one of the girls and of raping the other three. Black was also convicted of the kidnapping of a fifth girl and the attempted kidnapping of a sixth.Black is also suspected of unsolved child murders in the UK dating back to 1969 and others in the 1970s throughout Europe.At age 11, he was then sent to a children’s home in Falkirk.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Black_%28serial_killer%29Black was moved to the Red House in Musselburgh. While there, a male staff member sexually abused him. It was while Black was at Red House that he also entered Musselburgh Grammar SchoolBlack was sentenced to a year of borstal training at Polmont.[6]a well-known face on the amateur darts circuit. Darts world champion Eric Bristow knew BlackThe bodies of Maxwell, Hogg and Harper were found within 26 miles of each other, and police already believed that these three murders were linked. Detectives also thought that, because all three victims had been left long distances from where they had been taken, that the killer travelled as part of his occupation – possibly a lorry driver. The police faced great pressure to solve the crimes, as some newspapers compared them to the Moors Murders.It was one of the first inquiries to use the HOLMES computer system widely, following recommendations in the aftermath of the Yorkshire Ripper investigation.
Harmsworth Animal Hospital – Holloway
Animal hospital where Rolf Harris TV show filmed is closing down
2015-01-26
article.wn.com/view/2015/01/26/Animal_hospital_where_Rolf_Harris_TV_show_filmed_is_closing_/
Australian entertainer Harris was well known for his Animal Hospital series for the BBC which ran for a decade until 2004.
Rolf Harris dropped from Animal Clinic TV show after re-arrest over sexual offences allegations
8 Aug 2013
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rolf-harris-dropped-animal-clinic-2139820
Michelle Golding and the film “Beyond the hoodie”The estate was subject to a recent ITV documentary whereby a local MP, Ann Widdecombe, spent a night in one of the flats to highlight the supposed problem of youths causing trouble at all hours.
The youth of Andover Estate recently got together with a London film maker Michelle Golding [1] to produce a film [2] rebutting the Ann Widdecombe programme.
Young residents put across their side of the story to demonstrate that they are more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators.
The film highlights the actual reduction in crime on the estate over the last couple of years and the problem of much of the crime being committed by non-residents. It also discusses the negative impact created by the sloppy journalism of the Ann Widdecombe film. This was brought into sharp focus by the murder of a 14 year old boy in July 2007.
One of the Uk’s top rappers Skinnyman grew up on the nearby Six Acres Estate and also spent many of his younger years hanging around on Andover Estate. His highly acclaimed album Council Estate of Mind is believed to be about his upbringing in this area.
Johnny Rotten also grew up on the nearby Six Acres Estate.
On the edge of the estate on Sonderburg Road by Seven Sisters Road is Harmsworth hospital, (named and built after Sir Harold Harmsworth) an animal hospital run by the RSPCA, which was the focal point of the television reality TV series Animal Hospital, and was presented by popular TV personality Rolf Harris.
wikimapia.org/15247490/The-Andover-Estate
Council offers £25-a-week jobs to children on Widdy’s estate
According to a council report into inequality, Islington has the second highest rate of child poverty in England, with no one working in more than three quarters of the poorest households
Schoolchildren as young as 14 are to be offered adult jobs such as repairing roads and clerical work in a bid to give them a “work ethic”.
Islington council wants to pay new “junior assistants” £25 to work up to eight hours a week, which it hopes will break the cycle of unemployment in deprived areas of the borough.
A pilot scheme will begin on the Andover Estate in Finsbury Park, which suffers chronic unemployment and was branded a “dump” by former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe in 2007 when she stayed there for an ITV documentary Ann Widdecombe Vs The Hoodies. She described the estate as “very nasty, very threatening” and the youngsters living there as “thugs”.
www.standard.co.uk/news/council-offers-25aweek-jobs-to-children-on-widdys-estate-7304143.html
And Holloway Prison (Claire Rayner/Boateng/Longford Myra Hindley etc) is nearby…………………………………………………………………….Holloway Prison
HC Deb 13 May 1983 vol 42 c511W 511W§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about the exclusion of the head of the education department by the governor of Holloway prison from that institution on the grounds that he was in contact with a former inmate; and what is his policy about such contacts.§ Mr. MellorAs part of their general responsibilities for assisting prisoners in preparing for release prison education officers sometimes maintain contact with former prisoners after release. But under rule 81 of the Prison Rules they are required to make the governor aware of such contacts, and it is open to the governor to prohibit them if in the particular case he considers it advisable to do so in the interests of good order and discipline. I understand that in the case to which the hon. Member refers the governor considered it necessary to prohibit contact by the education officer with a particular prisoner and instructed him to give a formal written assurance that he would comply with that instruction. When the education officer failed to give that asssurance the governor requested his employer, the Inner London Education Authority, to withdraw him from the prison pending a formal hearing of the case as provided under his conditions of service. That hearing is due to take place on 26 May and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further at this stage.
One of his staff, who worked for him between 1980 and 1987, said: “Leon Brittan and Cyril Smith were both regular visitors to the shop. Usually they would come in via the side door, other times they would ring the bell at the front entrance and come in.“They’d straight away ask for Keith who would be coming down the stairs. “Then they would then either go up to his office for a private meeting or they’d go out for several hours.” The former worker added: “The shop had many high profile customers, including the Royals, because we were one of the few antique dealers in the world that specialised in restoring clocks, music boxes and automatons.
Isn’t it interesting that Jeremy Thorpe would have gone to live in the place gunman Stephen Govier suddenly absconded to. The very same Govier who was mates with Derek Laud and returned to live with Atkinson MP who had Thorpe’s possessions?
Martin Rosenbaum @rosenbaum6
ICYMI Revealed: the letter that stopped Jeremy Thorpe from giving evidence at his conspiracy trial, obtained from the FBI under FOI – my new blogpost http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi …
Cyril Smith of The Mercurius Masonic Lodge, No. 7507(1)This writer says Cyril Smith was member of Mercurius Lodge although gives no proof [posted with Private Eye article] – via Troy(Copied from Private Eye #1364, 18 April – 1 May 2014, page 29)……………………………………………
Wonders from a bygone ageThursday 18th March 2010
“When I was a boy,” he said, “my father was a doctor in Faringdon.“I
was invited to parties in big houses where the music boxes that were once in drawing rooms had been passed down to the nursery.“Most of my friends had music boxes, and I had that early fascination.“I’m interested in everything that moves – I always wanted to know the cause of everything.”Of such early interests, wonders may eventually be born.
Mr Harding has been many things in his life, including an engineer, a journalist, a Dominican Friar, a librarian and amember of the RAF.
He left the RAF when it seemed the powers that be were about to direct his talents toward making bigger and better atom bombs – not a prospect he relished.
He is a Freeman of the City of London and an internationally acclaimed maker and restorer of clocks, musical boxes and various other intriguing machines. There is scarcely a clock or musical box in the Victoria and Albert Museum that has not been worked on by him at some point, and the V&A also housed a special clock he was asked to build in honour of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977.
He regularly advises leading auction houses.
He and his small team at Northleach have grateful clients all over the world, from prestigious museums and galleries to private collectors with deep pockets and a taste for the exquisite and unusual.
When not busy with such matters, Mr Harding has found time for cave diving, the violin, playing in a brass band and studying ancient written languages, among other pursuits.
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Member of the British Antique Dealers Association and author of “A Code of Ethics for Restorers in Antiquarian Horology”
(1976), A Code of Ethics for Restorers in Antiquarian Horology, Keith Harding, London
Keith Harding started dealing in antiques while still an engineering student. In 1974, Harding delivered a paper, The Ethics of Conservation, to the British Horological Society, which is now an international work of reference. Three years later, on Jubilee Day 1977, the one o’clock news featured Harding and Burnett’s Silver Jubilee Polyphon. Their next big commission, a clock for an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 1982, they built The Oriel House Clock for the entrance hall of the Church Commissioners building in London.
http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/8847896.Goodbye_to_mechanical_music_maestro_Cliff_Burnett/
Vale of White Horse Lodge appears to be in Faringdon
www.hrionline.ac.uk/lane/record.php?ID=3299 ….
Vale of White Horse Lodge. Knights Templar. uk.linkedin.com/pub/keith-harding/62/908/907 …
Keith Harding moved to Northleach in 1987.
Charles Hornby lived in Shipton Moyne until 1992. 20 miles apart. Another connection.
[P18] Killer Robert Black worked at Hornsey Road Swimming Baths 1971-3. How close to Harding’s 93?
https://twitter.com/mysweetlandlord/status/602450113034887169
www.armchairdetective.org.uk/Cycle%20of%20Opportunity%20-%20Robert%20Black%201.pdf …
Looks to be less than half a mile.
Hornsey Road Public Baths 254 Hornsey Rd Keith Harding Antiques 93 Hornsey Road
In 1995 John Allen was living in Bisley, near Stroud. About 30 miles from Keith Harding in Northleach, near Cirencester.
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In 1962 as the sounds of Joe Meek and The Tornados’ Telstar descended the UK charts from five weeks at Number 1…
The interview panel for the role of Secretary to the Albany Trust was a committee of five men and one woman. Already known to most in his role as Treasurer before Grey were the familiar faces of an elderly genitourinary surgeon, a Labour inner-city MP, the Bishop of Woolwich, a published criminal psychiatrist and a young married couple in town from up North.
“My appointment was not a foregone conclusion. I was asked to wait in Kenneth Walker’s little Harley Street dining room while the committee discussed my offer. Besides Mr Walker, the others present were
Dr Neustatter (the Society’s deputy chairman Dr [Walter] Lindesay Neustatter was the Trust’s deputy chairman at the time, as well as consulting at Royal Northern Hospital and serving as Vice-President of the Medico-Legal Society. Six years previously he had delved into ‘The Mind of the Murderer’… in 1966 would give Ian Brady’s pre-sentence report and gave evidence on Brian Jones’ state of mind.), Kenneth Robinson MP, the Bishop of Woolwich (‘Honest to God’ John Robinson) and the Newalls.
Apologies for absence had been received from Jeremy Thorpe MP, Ambrose Appelbe, C.H. Rolph and Jacquetta Hawkes, although I believe that most, if not all, of these had told Kenneth Walker of their views.” [Grey Loc 1148/6001]
Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road The Great Northern Hospital was founded, at his own expense, by Dr. Sherard Freeman Statham, an assistant surgeon, who had been dismissed from University College Hospital for smacking a patient’s bottom.
Interestingly, half of the interviewing Albany Trust committee were involved in Royal Northern Hospital, located on the Holloway Road in Islington, North London.
Kenneth Walker O.B.E was an eminent consultant surgeon to the Genito-Urinary Department at Royal Northern, while Dr Neustatter was a senior psychiatrist to the department of Psychological Medicine there and Kenneth Robinson, a local Labour MP for St Pancras, served on the Hospital’s Board.
(It was Kenneth Robinson MP as Wilson’s Minister of Health who won a libel suit against the Church of Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard. In 1967, banning foreign Scientologists from entering the UK (a prohibition which remained in force until 1980). In response, L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology’s founder, had accused Wilson of being a puppet of Soviet Russia backed by an international conspiracy of psychiatrists and financiers!)
Kenneth Walker O.B.E (1882 – 1966)- In 1939 he had co-written with a pschoanalyst the book Sexual Disorders in the male. In 1945 described circumstances in which artificial insemination was taking place in UK in British Medical Journal with Dr Weisner and in the early 1920s was performing testicular grafts for ‘rejuvenation’although he very quickly saw them as impossible and denounced Voronoff’s work (based in 1920s Paris transplanting first castrated criminals’ ‘glands’ and then shavings of monkey glands into wealthy elderly men!) to the Royal College of Surgeons.
The hospital had moved grounds several times since being founded in the 1850s to end up near Union Chapel, Highbury and Islington station with a Royal Charter from 1921. It was one of the first hospitals to receive wireless radio on the wards.
Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road from 1950 – 1954 a nurse called Claire Rayner trained) worked there.
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Royal Northern
“Royal Northern. North seven …” While that may not be the most well-known of chorus chants from the height of the punk explosion, Demon Preacher’s debut single Royal Northern was nevertheless the embodiment of the era’s spirit of get up and go.
The group’s debut performance was in a church hall on the Holloway Road, and the show was attended by sundry Sex Pistols. So it seems only appropriate the group’s debut release, on its own Illegal Pressings label, in 1978 would feature a song about the Royal Northern Hospital, similarly on the Holloway Road, and stories circulating at the time about porters assisting with operations. The hospital is long gone, and so many of London’s hospitals have flats on the sitDemon Preacher itself is of particular interest to some punk archivists because it was led by Nik Wade who would go on to form Alien Sex Fiend. I don’t think any of his later songs were postcode related. And if you’re not sure about the north London postcodes ..
Albany Trust
Child murderer Myra Hindley and her establishment supporter Lord David Astor
Joy Blanchard –
With Greyhe brings a former secretary to David Astor, the founder of The Observer, Joyce Blanchard.
He works part-time for the Trust, one day a week on Saturdays sub-editing for The Observer in their offices on Fleet Street and part-time writing a book for the Steel industry for the next five-six years.
“At the advertising agency I had made friends with a temporary senior secretary, Joyce Blancahrd (known to everyone as Joy) who was then in her late forties, and had previously worked as a personal secretary to several eminent businessmen – including David Astor of the Observer. I decided to offer her the position of Office Manager at the HRLS/Albany Trust offices, and she responded enthusiastically.” [Loc 1122/6001]
https://bitsofbooksblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/1962-antonys-albany-trust-interview/
Lord David Astor Myra Hindley and David Astor: a complex relationship revealed in letters
The private letters, sent between David Astor and Myra Hindley for 20 years
When Myra Hindley became the object of David Astor’s philanthropic sympathy, the lives of the murderer and the journalist became strangely connected. It’s a story, buried in Astor’s private papers, that has never been reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/oct/28/myra-hindley-david-astor-letters
Moors murders BOMBSHELL: Jimmy Savile part of ‘paedo ring with Ian Brady and Myra Hindley’
25th June 2017
DISGRACED radio DJ Jimmy Savile has been accused of buying indecent photographs of children from evil killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Daily Star Online can exclusively reveal.
Erica Gregory – who has devoted years of her life investigating the Moors murders – believes they even formed a twisted “paedophile ring”.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Star Online, she said: “I believe they went to the BBC studio regularly to make a fuss and try to get in with Savile.
“Alongside David Smith, Brady was selling photographs of children to make money at this time – I believe Savile could have been one of his customers.
“It is well known that Savile visited them both inside. I believe they were in a ring of some sort.”
It doesn’t stop there, though.
60s Lord Boothby shares rent boys with Krays, now, Keith Vaz buys coke for rent boys, 60s Ted Heath takes kids from jersey home, May covers
Gangster Ronnie Kray and top politician Lord Boothby in 1963. Lord Boothby was close to all the top people from Churchill to Tom Driberg”The Krays had property at Bildeston where they were involved with local youth clubs and giving children donkey rides etc.”Apparently Kray had access to many London care homes and would have boys delivered to parties at DJ Alan ” fluff” Freeman’s large flat over a music shop in East London.
“There they would meet with show biz types and DJs including Jimmy Saville, JOE MEEKS and on occasion Beatles manager Brian Epstein.”
According to this source – Archives – the Krays ran a paedophile ring.
They were billeted at East House Lodge, Hadleigh, and placed on the roll of local schools.“When we was little kids we got evacuated to Suffolk, near Ipswich,” confirmed Ronnie among the hubbub of one of those Broadmoor taping sessions. “We went to a Mrs Styles’s place in Suffolk – she had a mansion there – and we stayed with her. It was the first time we ever went to the county and we got to like the country.”…he turned his mind back to carefree childhood days in Suffolk: tobogganing at Hadleigh, scrumping for apples, and playing cowboys and Indians.He also recalled the country mansion at Bildeston the twins later bought for £11,000 – reflecting that it would now be worth £1million-plus, if only they could have held on to it – and explained how they’d go on antique-buying trips while up in East Anglia.“It all adds up to a picture of the Kray twins no-one has ever seen,” says Robin McGibbon, the journalist who talked to the brothers in the 1980s and ’90s and committed their memories to tape.
Harvey Proctor referred to allegations against him as “a tissue of lies”. A phrase used by Boothby when The Mirror outed him.
Ken Clarke Secretary of Health when Savile, was put in charge of taskforce at Broadmoor, that housed the sickest and most violent offenders.
Jimmy Savile given the keys to Broadmoor under Ken Clarke New probe as grim toll of fiend’s victims rises
CABINET minister Ken Clarke was dramatically dragged into the Jimmy Savile scandal yesterday.
It emerged that BBC pervert Savile was “given the keys” to Broadmoor secure hospital around 1988 — when Mr Clarke was Health Secretary.
Mr Clarke was last night forced to defend himself, saying: “I have no recollection of ever having met Jimmy Savile and no recollection of these events.
“The Department of Health are now investigating to establish the facts.”
Why was murderous child-rapist and VIP pimp, Jimmy Savile, given the keys to high-security psychiatric hospital, Broadmoor? Was it because, as well as being able to freely abuse residents, he was also able to stay in close contact with notorious killers, Ian Brady, Ronnie Kray and Peter Sutcliffe? Most certainly, yes.
“What was involved was the systematic abuse of ten-to-twelve-year-old boys, one of whom subsequently became fairly well known as a singer.
“Another, rather less fortunate,wound up in six pieces in two suitcases…
Lady Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
Never forget poor Bernard Oliver…
UNSOLVED CRIMES
OPERATION TATTINGSTONE
THE MURDER OF BERNARD OLIVER
https://scepticpeg.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/unsolved-crimes-operation-tattingstone-bernard-oliver/
Tony Oliver was 13 when his brother Bernard was murdered In January 1967, police in Tattingstone, Suffolk, discovered a suitcase containing the mutilated body of Bernard Oliver. The dissected body of Bernard Oliver, 17, from Muswell Hill, north London, was found dumped in two suitcases on farmland in Tattingstone, near Ipswich, on 16 January 1967.
The possibility that Britten and Pears were part of Righton’s circle (and thus perhaps also to other members of PIE) does not in itself prove anything, but undoubtedly this needs to be investigated, together with the meetings in Snape Maltings. That question has certainly been asked by the Daily Mail. Last month the paper put the Savile scandal and the Britten centenary together and asked if the BBC would acknowledge Britten’s “obsession with young boys” in its plans for the centenary, which are designed to reflect the “significant part the BBC played in the Britten story”.
Camille Davis Russo @CDavisRusso
Clare Jervis has sympathy for boy-lover Benjamin Britten, composer of opera Peter Grimes, taken from poem about a sadistic fisherman who loses boys overboard. Like Ted Heath? Britten also wrote Billy Budd, another sadistic ocean-faring opera featuring sadism towards the young….
Imagine Benjamin Britten’s ‘naked boys’ Death in Venice being staged now (Britten was never accused but had close relationships with boys) which was about taboo sexual desire & restraint & you’ll see the transformational PC lie.
Lord Britten’s obsession with young boys, many of whom he invited to stay at his Suffolk home.
...various accounts chronicled by Bridcut of naked swimming and sharing of beds with boys aged as young as 11
Why we must talk about Britten’s boys…… post-Savile, we cannot ignore his obsession with children…he is known to have slept in the same bed with at least one youngster
Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana to mark 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation Her coronation in 1953 was marked by the premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana, an opera commissioned in honour of the occasion. The fact that Benjamin Britten was deeply fascinated by adolescent boys throughout his life is no secret. His sexuality loomed large in Humphrey Carpenter’s ground-breaking 1992 biography, and was the subject of a 2004 TV documentary and subsequent book, Britten’s Children. WH Auden once taunted Britten over his “attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles”. No one with even a brief acquaintance of Britten’s music can possibly miss the prominent and privileged place that music for the unbroken male voice occupies in his output.
They were billeted at East House Lodge, Hadleigh, and placed on the roll of local schools.“When we was little kids we got evacuated to Suffolk, near Ipswich,” confirmed Ronnie among the hubbub of one of those Broadmoor taping sessions. “We went to a Mrs Styles’s place in Suffolk – she had a mansion there – and we stayed with her. It was the first time we ever went to the county and we got to like the country.”…he turned his mind back to carefree childhood days in Suffolk: tobogganing at Hadleigh, scrumping for apples, and playing cowboys and Indians.He also recalled the country mansion at Bildeston the twins later bought for £11,000 – reflecting that it would now be worth £1million-plus, if only they could have held on to it – and explained how they’d go on antique-buying trips while up in East Anglia.“It all adds up to a picture of the Kray twins no-one has ever seen,” says Robin McGibbon, the journalist who talked to the brothers in the 1980s and ’90s and committed their memories to tape.
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, and Queen Mother at The Red House.
The Queen Mother and Peter Pears at the Snape Maltings Concert …
Norman Del Mar Richard Alston
Thames Publishing, Aug 3, 2000
Comments from Troyhand: …the Norman Del Mar book posted above was written by Richard Alston.
I’m supposing that this is the same Richard Alston who was Peter Righton’s roommate, described as “married” to Righton since 1974, and was headmaster of New Barns School and had a brother who was a British Ambassador to Muscat in the Middle East and was arrested last year under Operation Cayacos for historic child sexual abuse.and who was also thanked first in “Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936 : the T.S. Eliot Memorial”edited by Donald Mitchell
“Acknowledgements“I am much indebted to Richard Alston without whose dedicated editorial assistance I should have found it difficult to see this revised edition through the press… and to Peter Righton for correcting proofs…”
aangirfan.blogspot.com/2012/06/kray-twins-jersey-pedophile-rings.html
books.google.com/books?id=9mikFV-eSzkC&pg=PA17&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b1F1U9CJHPS1sASlkoDoDw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
ianpace.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/peter-righton-benjamin-britten-peter-pears-and-michael-davidson/
spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/category/suffolk/
ianpace.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/peter-righton-benjamin-britten-peter-pears-and-michael-davidson/
aangirfan.blogspot.com/2012/10/jimmy-savile-kray-twins-cliff-richards.html
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/paedophile-scandal-charles-napier-could-1430365
thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/why-was-jimmy-savile-given-the-keys-to-broadmoor/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-16217716
Paedophiles Dr Martin Reddington & Dr John Byles
Doctors were murder probe chief suspects
29 October 2004 | UPDATED: 05:22 02 March 2010
TWO doctors wanted for the death and homosexual assault of another boy were the prime suspects in the Tattingstone suitcase murder, it can be revealed today.
TWO doctors wanted for the death and homosexual assault of another boy were the prime suspects in the Tattingstone suitcase murder, it can be revealed today.
Martin Reddington and John Byles both denied any involvement in the strangling and mutilation of mentally disabled teenager Bernard Oliver in January, 1967.
But detectives investigating one of the most horrific crimes Suffolk has ever known, pinpointed the pair as suspects from an early stage in their inquiries.
And when the case was reopened, in 1977, their links were again closely scrutinised. By this time, the case against them had grown even stronger.
But, in a remarkable hole in the investigation, Dr Reddington was never interviewed in connection with the offence.
It was decided there was insufficient evidence to extradite him from Australia, where he was living in 1977.
Original documents from the massive murder probe reveal they were jointly wanted for a string of sickening crimes, including gross indecency and buggery.
And one involved the murder of a boy in London in 1973, after an apparent homosexual relationship.
The previously unrevealed evidence is able to be published today due to the new Freedom of Information Act which will become law at the beginning of next year.
However Suffolk police granted permission for the file to be opened two months early after a request by The Evening Star.
The death of the boy in London in 1973 was a crime which had striking parallels with the gruesome death of Mr Oliver, whose severed body was discovered packed into two suitcases.
Tests on the remains revealed Mr Oliver had taken part in homosexual acts prior to his death, although his friends insisted he was not gay.
Two years before Mr Oliver’s death, a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Dr Reddington for the buggery and indecent assault of males, in 1965.
But before police inquiries could be completed, he fled the country for South Africa. Despite several attempts, the warrant was never executed and his guilt neither proved nor disproved.
It was known he made a number of return visits to the United Kingdom since leaving, although no evidence was ever found to place him in Suffolk or North London in January 1967.
The strong lack of leads to back up suspicions against the pair hindered the investigation from day one.
Yet, at the same time a great deal of other circumstantial evidence was building up.
One clue was the location of Dr Reddington’s surgery in Muswell Hill, North London, which was in the direction of the street Mr Oliver was last seen walking down.
Despite every address in the area being searched, the crime scene was never established – nor was any link with Suffolk.
The only possible clue was the local knowledge of Colchester-born Dr Reddington, although Dr Byles denied any knowledge of the county when interviewed.
A private investigator in Muswell Hill provided one of the fascinating pieces of evidence in the entire investigation.
She claimed to recognise the suitcase used to discard the body parts of Mr Oliver, pointing to the distinctive P.V.A initials on its side.
She told detectives she spoke to a man in a launderette on numerous occasions and vividly remembered the suitcase being brought in containing his dirty washing.
It was her description that to an artist’s impression of the killer being released.
And when the inquiry was reopened in 1977, she picked out a photograph of Dr Reddington as one of three men she recognised as owning the suitcase.
Another other clue that caused suspicion to fall on the two doctors was the expert way in which the body was cut up.
Neatly severed into eight parts, the precise and deliberate nature of the operation meant only an expert could have carried it out.
A consultant surgeon at the then Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital decided the crime was most likely to have been committed by a doctor, surgeon or medical student.
It was someone with “knowledge of anatomy with previous experience of dismemberment”. The gory task had been “expertly accomplished”, with the exception of one joint.
The consultant explained: “One would expect the person dissecting the body, irrespective of how calm and deliberate he may have been, to show some sign of nerves, anxiety or excitement towards the end of the dissection.
“This could well be the reason for the bad workmanship on the left knee joint.”
But despite this growing weight of evidence by the late 1970s, Dr Reddington went to his grave without ever answering any questions relating to the crime. He died in May 1995, aged 63.
By now, Dr Byles had committed suicide in 1975, after being arrested and charged for an indecent assault in London, while in Australia.
He jumped bail and committed suicide before the full facts of the matter could be determined.
The 38-year-old left two suicide notes beside his body, one to Reddington, and another to Scotland Yard.
The note to police contained an apology for what he had done, but there was no direct reference to the Tattingstone murder. He was thought to have been responsible for the death of a cabin boy.
Eric Shields, a former detective sergeant with Suffolk police, was one of the officers who worked on infamous crime nearly 40 years ago.
Today he said: “The investigation was carried out in minute detail. As far as I’m concerned, it was dealt with in a highly professional manner.”
“I’m sure all the officers who worked on the Tattingstone murder are disappointed nobody has been brought to book.”
http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/doctors-were-murder-probe-chief-suspects-1-102084
The ‘Holy Trinity’ Paedophile Ring
The Holy Trinity church, Huddersfield
The case of the murder of Bernard Oliver, 17, whose dismembered body was found in two suitcases in the village of Tattingstone in Suffolk in 1967, is unsolved and because the main suspects are both now dead, it will likely remain so, but it was the identifying of those two suspects, Dr Martin Reddington and Dr John Byles, and the tracing of the history of at least some of their offending which led us to the ‘Holy Trinity Paedophile Ring’. This was a group of professionals that in 1975 stood trial at Leeds Crown Court and were found guilty of the sexual abuse of young boys including abuse within the Holy Trinity church, Huddersfield, and the trade in child sexual abuse images to Copenhagen and Amsterdam.
Dr John Byles Body is missing doctor: police The Age 22-01-75
Dr John Byles, Reverend John Poole & Raymond Varley Police seek doctor The Canberra Times 18-01-75
A VICAR appeared in court yesterday charged with raping a girl of 15.
The Reverend John Poole, 50, formervicar of St Paul’s Church, in Shipley, West Yorkshire, is alleged to have attacked the youngster in his rectory in May last year.
The father-of four is also accused of indecently assaulting her on two previous occasions.
Poole, fro
m Clayton, Bradford, was arrested on Sunday as his wife Denise, a curate, prepared to give a sermon at All Saints Church in Great Horton, Bradford.
Reverend John Poole’s wife the Revd Canon Denise Poole.
His wife wept and Poole fought back the tears as bail was granted after a 90-minute hearing. …
The Revd Denise and John Poole in Khartoum, Sudan in 2009http://www.khartoum.anglican.org/index.php?PageID=hajyousif1 …
The service was led by Canon Denise Poole, the Lord Mayor’s Chaplain, and Councillor the Reverend Paul Flowers, chaplain to the city’s branch of the RBL.
It was attended by civic dignitaries including the Queen’s representative, the Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Council leader Kris Hopkins and Bradford South MP Gerry Sutcliffe.
The service followed a parade, led by standard-bearers from veterans’ groups, forces’ cadets and Scouts, which snaked through the city streets.
Members of the 269 (West Riding) Battery inherited the Freedom of the City of Bradford, were also part of the parade from Centenary Square to the city’s war memorial.
Paedophile John Poole is finance person for the British Bible Society and he had visited Sudan in the eighties.
Sudan Church Association – John Poole (SCA Finance Manager)
http://www.sudanchurchassociation.org.uk/contact-2/
Paedophile Dr Martin Bruce Reddington Doctor on assault charge The Canberra Times 05-02-77
MEDICAL BRANCH MARTIN BRUCE REDDINGTON, M.B., B.Chir. (505363). 11th May 1957. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41111/supplement/3864 …
Mr & Mrs John Poole of British and Foreign Bible Society
Philip John Poole was employed as Secretary of The British and Foreign Bible Society.
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/philip-john-poole-5 …
The Bible Society in Sudan, which is based in the north’s capital, Khartoum.
Bible Society’s Patron is Her Majesty the Queen
https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-us/our-people/
Philip John Poole THE TELLING PLACE LIMITED & GOSPEL AND CULTURE LIMITED
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/philip-john-poole-3 …
Philip John Poole (The Bible Society) Publisher launches ‘youth Bible’ – a tale of sex and masturbation
Philip Poole, the deputy chief executive of The Bible Society, said the society “supports the way Collins is helping young people understand how the Bible can speak into their lives today”.
Philip Poole – Deputy Chief Executive Officer Bible Society
Deputy chief executive of the Bible Society, Philip Poole Bible project comes to Cirencester
Sept 11 2011
http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/9243762.Bible_project_comes_to_Cirencester/
https://twitter.com/thewakeupcall09/status/861674373035556866
Graham Ovenden was a Guest Editorial of Paidika Journal of Paedophilia in 1994
PAIDIKA NUMBER 10 WINTER 1994: Guest Editorial: Fall from Grace, by Graham Ovenden
Documents Not Likely to be Widely Available in Libraries
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Lord McAlpine sells off his Graham Ovenden ‘CHILD PORN’ collection
The Evening Standard 23-05-03
In 2013, it was revealed McAlpine had owned the artwork of convicted paedophile Graham Ovenden – artwork that depicted naked children.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/02/graham-ovenden-artist-1970s-decadence
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Peter Blake and Graham Ovenden have been criticised for their interest in painting young female models
Graham Ovenden The Obscene Publications Squad versus art 1993 (35 page booklet)
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Graham Ovenden’s books where published by Ophelia Editions founded by Lawrence Allen Stanley.
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Lawrence Allen Stanley
Graham Ovenden’s paedophile associate Lawrence Allen Stanley aka L.A. Stanaman & Larry Stanley
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/jul/24/20020724-034743-2147r/ …pic.twitter.com/AOQaIZ9n8Y
Porn lawyer charged in Brazil with child exploitation
Lawrence Allen Stanley, 47, was arrested June 8 after police in Salvador say they found more than 1,000 photographs and more than 100 videos of young girls in swimsuits and underwear.
The arrest came days after the Brazilian magazine Epocha reported that Stanley, a fugitive who has lived in Brazil since 1998, had built an international business photographing Brazilian girls and selling their photos through the Internet.At a hearing July 8, a Brazilian federal judge ordered that Stanley remain in custody until trial after receiving the report of an investigation from Rita Sanchez, head of the Center for Human Rights. Stanley faces up to four years in prison if convicted.Under the alias L.A. Stanaman, Stanley operated the “MiniModels” Web site, featuring photos of girls ages 8 to 14 in what police Officer Rui Gomes described to the Associated Press as “sensual poses.” Police said Stanley paid the girls $20 to $40 for each photo session.An official of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for information on Stanley’s case.Stanley has been identified as the owner of Alessandra’s Smile, a New York company that sells erotic material about girls. He is also the publisher of Ophelia Editions, which produces books with pedophile themes, and Uncommon Desires, a newsletter that has called itself “the voice of a politically conscious girl-love underground.”Stanley has a criminal record. He was charged with “sexual aggression” against a girl in Quebec in 1990, but Canadian officials never sought extradition. In 1998, a Dutch court convicted Stanley in absentia for sexual abuse of three children ages 7 to 10, Epocha reported. He faces a three-year prison sentence if he returns to the Netherlands. Brazil has no extradition treaty with the Netherlands.In 1989, federal authorities accused Stanley of conspiring with a client, photographer Don Marcus, to import child pornography. Marcus who fled to France to escape prosecution and is still a fugitive asked Stanley to pick up a suitcase that was found to contain child pornography. His attorney argued that Stanley did not know what was in the suitcase, and a jury acquitted him in 1993.
He has written several articles about child pornography, including one in 1987 in the Dutch pedophile journal Paidika. “Law enforcement officials have exaggerated the incidence of possession of child pornography,” Stanley said. “Only 14 percent depicted children engaged in sexual conduct with adults,” he said, referring to photos in child pornography magazines.
Those assertions were expanded by Stanley in a 1988 Playboy article, “The Child Pornography Myth,” in which he argued that pedophiles were a “small, essentially insignificant group.”
Stanley’s work was cited by Judith Levine in her recent book, “Harmful to Minors,” which several critics said promoted pedophilia. The Levine book was sold by one of Stanley’s Web sites, which praised it as an “important and compelling book” debunking “myths that adult attraction to children is a serious and pervasive threat.”
As lawyer in the mid-1990s, Stanley defended efforts by the North American Man Boy Love Association to operate as a tax-exempt group.
In 1998, U.S. Customs officials seized a large shipment of European nudist magazines addressed to Stanley’s company, Alessandra’s Smile. In 1999, a federal judge ruled the magazines obscene, but the decision was reversed by an appeals court. panel.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/jul/24/20020724-034743-2147r/
How the art world turned a blind eye to a paedophile: Painter Graham Ovenden defended by the establishment is convicted of indecency against young girls
David Hamilton suicide 2016
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Controversial British fashion photographer David Hamilton, 83, was found dead in his Parisian home Friday, emergency services sources said, just weeks after being accused of rape by several former child models.
Hamilton, known for his widely published nude images of underage girls, was found in a state of cardiac arrest an informed source said, adding there was medication near his body. He was declared dead an hour later.
Hamilton, who rose to fame in the 1970s and whose photography books have sold millions of copies, this week threatened to sue his accusers, saying he had previously been cleared of abuse.
The artist, whose work has long raised questions about where art ends and pornography begins, was at the centre of a raft of allegations after a French radio presenter accused him of raping her when she was 13.
Flavie Flament, who modelled for Hamilton almost 30 years ago, published an autobiographical novel last month in which she told of being raped by a famous photographer during a shoot.
Although she did not name Hamilton in “The Consolation”, she used his photograph of her as the book’s cover.
Flament, 42, later told French media that it was Hamilton who had raped her after three other women contacted her with near identical allegations.
Flament said Hamilton raped her in the shower of his apartment after spotting her in a nudist resort at Cap d’Agde in southwest France where she was on holiday with her parents.
Lost paradise’
Hamilton has said that his work looks for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and is most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.
He was born in London in 1933 and studied architecture as a young man, but it was in Paris where he first started to work in fashion, having moved there aged 20 inspired by the impressionist painters.
He first worked as a designer at Elle magazine and then as an artistic director at the luxury Le Printemps department store.
With no formal training in photography, he found his calling aged 33, seeking his models in the streets and on the beaches.
He became known for his trademark “Hamilton blur”, his photos often bathed in a very distinctive artistic vagueness.
His photos’ subdued light, bluish tint and young girls, often blonde, blue-eyed and crowned with flowers, were fashionable in the 70s and 80s but the style became seen as passe in later decades, and his pictures were considered disturbing by some.
Under the French statute of limitations, charges must be brought within 20 years for rape and 10 years for sexual abuse.
However, in a twist Tuesday, the French minister for children’s and women’s rights asked Flament to head a body which will look at whether to extend the statute of limitations.
Library to Decide on Keeping Books Copied by Child Molester
SAN DIEGO — Library officials were scrambling Wednesday to decide whether to retain in the city’s main library two books containing pictures of nude children that a judge has said are pornographic.
Superior Court Judge William Kennedy, finding a repeat child molester guilty of possessing child pornography, said the pictures in the two books “are not for art’s sake but for sexual and offensive purposes” and thus fit the definition of child pornography.
Photocopies made at the library were found in the possession of Charles Stephen Davis, 49, who has served two prison terms for child molestation.
After a one-day, nonjury trial, Davis was convicted Tuesday of one count of child molestation for assaulting a 7-year-old girl and three counts of possessing child pornography.
Most of the pictures that Davis possessed he had taken himself at Balboa Park, using a hidden camera to photograph the crotches and undergarments of young girls as they played on swings or sandbox slides.
Along with those pictures, Davis had copies of photographs from two books in the reference section of the downtown library: “States of Grace” by Graham Ovenden and “Twenty-Five Years as an Artist” by David Hamilton. Ovenden and Hamilton are English photographers
Kennedy, a former federal and county prosecutor, said, “All one has to do is review the photos candidly and reasonably” to see that they are meant to be seductive by displaying genitals.
More recently…an article, Common Purpose-style re: showing the works of paedophile Eric Gill’s works who was into bestiality and who raped his daughters…
No survivors views are presented.
Normalising propaganda? If they normalise this behaviour it lets them all off the hook?
Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser?
9 Apr 2017
“For me, though, the biggest question remains unanswered: why do this show at all? The darknesses in Gill’s life have been public knowledge for almost three decades now…”
Why force it on visitors? What, in the end, does Hepburn hope to achieve by doing so? Again, he comes back to censorship: “I don’t want to censor which works we show because we don’t have the confidence of language to be able to interpret them properly.”
??
“we think it’s going to be an amazing exhibition that will show Gill as an amazing artist”
“It’s a test case.”
Charities condemn gallery over major show on ‘repugnant’ artist who sexually abused his two daughters
- Twisted British artist Eric Gill sexually abused his two daughters and his pet dog
- Extent of his reign of horror over his children only emerged after he died in 1940
- Row has broken out after art gallery plans to display his artwork of his daughters
An art gallery came under fire last night for staging a major exhibition about an artist who abused his two daughters and slept with his sister.
The retrospective of Eric Gill’s work includes explicit drawings, prints and sculptures of his daughters, Elizabeth and Petra.
Gill died in 1940, aged 58, and it later emerged that the girls had suffered years of sexual abuse at his hands.
He also had an incestuous relationship with his younger sister Gladys, and conducted sexual experiments on his dog.
The show, which opened yesterday at the Ditchling Museum Of Art And Craft in East Sussex, features a nude drawing of Elizabeth from 1927 and a woodblock showing a naked Petra from 1921.
Rape charities called the show ‘repugnant’.
Fay Maxted, chief executive of the Survivors Trust, said: ‘The gallery is showing a real lack of understanding of the impact of sexual abuse on children and the responsibility we have not to promote it or normalise it. If you add the financial element, it becomes even more distasteful.’
Some residents in Ditchling, where Gill lived between 1906 and 1924, also criticised the museum. Jazz musician Herbie Flowers, 79, said: ‘They might as well put a Rolf Harris exhibition on the week after and a Jimmy Savile and Gary Glitter one after that.’
Museum director Nathaniel Hepburn said: ‘We have spoken to some of those in the village who raised concerns and once they have heard more about the exhibition then they have been supportive of our approach, even if they still object to Gill.’
David Hockney supported Graham Ovenden
PIE member Terrence Waters aka James Opphin Daler friend of Dr Morris Fraser
Terrence Waters, 68, an art and carpentry teacher at Allen House School, a boys’ school that has since closed, was given a suspended sentence after admitting 12 charges.
Judge Michael Addison said Waters was in a position of trust when he committed the seven counts of indecent assault on a male and five of indecency with a child.
The incidents took place in the 1970s and 1980s. The court heard that Waters was told to leave the school following allegations made against him.
Ruby Selva, prosecuting, said Waters, now of Kent Square, Great Yarmouth, organised trips and a photography club.
In 1988, he received a five-year sentence for indecent assault, reduced to three-and-a-half years on appeal.
In 1994, he was sentenced to 10 years for indecent assault, reduced to six on appeal, and he received another 13 months for taking indecent photographs in 2000.
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Pilot Study on Alleged Organised Abuse – Hale and Sinason c.1994
The Department of Education have released a redacted copy of the Final Report of a “Pilot Study on Alleged Organised Abuse” authored, in approximately 1994, by Dr Robert Hale and Ms Valerie Sinason of the Portman and Tavistock Clinic.
There is a link to a pdf download here [11] of a searchable copy [HT daedalus – Operation Greenlight [13] ] original non searchable here [2] It is also reproduced below in a series of jpgs.
The study was not actually commissioned by the the Department of Health but was partly funded by them for one year. There was no active decision not to publish [10] [App1]
- Of interest is that the paper mentions that Scotland Yard had a Research Unit on Ritual Abuse, which was disbanded in 1994 and its Report on Ritual Abuse remains unpublished.
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Does Barbara Hewson, cousin of Proctor’s lawyer Jonathan Denby, have a vested interest in conspiraloons’ theories being ditched?
Oh, just remind me again who were Enoch’s two aides and buddies! Ah, yes. Proctor and Denby!
Interesting that Barbara Hewson says satanic sexual abuse doesn’t exist while her cousin worked for Enoch Powell who is accused of just that
Derry Mainwaring-Knight “outed” two Tory politicians (William Whitelaw, Enoch Powell) and one Labour MP (Leopold Abse) as cult members.
HRH Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
1986: Fluff Freeman attends satanist’s party in Richmond. Derry Mainwaring-Knight.
Savile/Peter Ball/Ian Gow/
Savile good friends with Peter Ball/ Peter Ball good friends with Ian Gow/
Jimmy Savile and Prince Charles’ very close friendship with sex abuse bishop Peter Ball
via cassandracogno
Michael brown was at York Uni same time as Harriet Harman & Harvey Proctor & Christine Hamilton 1969/70/71
Ian Gow – his cousin Nicholas Budgen was whip in 1981
Named after St. Nicholas Church in Newport, Shropshire of which his grandfather was priest, Budgen was baptised at Lichfield Cathedral by his grandfather, who had also baptised Enoch Powell
Budgen’s speeches in 1985 against the Anglo-Irish Agreement persuaded his cousin Ian Gow to resign as a minister from Margaret Thatcher’s government.
Michael Brown, was at the time a government whip
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Budgen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gow
Why does the Gin Goblin so categorically deny the existence of satanic child abuse like this in Proctor’s home county?
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Such a shame Times didn’t tell its readers that Hewson was suspended from Twitter last week 2 times in as many days
Barrister complains to police and BSB about another barrister’s unacceptable behaviour on Twitter
Two barristers are locked in a very public spat after one accused the other of “enthusiastically” encouraging the abuse of an unnamed journalist online.Sarah Phillimore (pictured top left), who is a tenant at St John’s Chambers in Bristol, and Barbara Hewson (pictured top right), who is a member of 1 Gray’s Inn Square in London, are at loggerheads over Hewson’s social media etiquette.This according to The Times (£), which reported today that Phillimore has sent a letter to Hewson’s legal representatives complaining about her behaviour on Twitter. The letter stated:Ms Hewson has enthusiastically encouraged such abuse [of the journalist] over many months and engaged in direct abuse and harassment [herself].
Confirming to Legal Cheek that she has filed complaints with both the police and Bar Standards Board (BSB), Phillimore continued:
I… believe I have clear evidence to support my contention that Ms Hewson’s online activities have serious and potentially criminal ramifications well beyond the issue of publication on Twitter. This is not acceptable behaviour from a practising barrister.
Returning fire, Irish-born Hewson — whose personal Twitter account now appears to have been “suspended” (screenshot below) — told the newspaper:
I object in the strongest possible terms to Ms Phillimore’s brinkmanship, making extraordinarily serious accusations in an unfocused way, without any supporting evidence. I and my legal team will robustly defend any civil or criminal proceedings that she, or any anyone else, initiates against me.
While the identity of the journalist remains a mystery, Legal Cheek understands that the Twitter bust-up and subsequent letter stems from the barristers’ differing views on child abuse cases. The report states that Hewson has instructed London-based media experts Simons Muirhead & Burton to defend any potential claim.
Responding to today’s report, the BSB told Legal Cheek:
The BSB does not comment as to whether or not individual barristers are the subject of a complaint or a disciplinary investigation. If a complaint is received, or if information about potential misconduct by a barrister comes to our attention, it is dealt with in accordance with the procedures set out in detail on our website.
This isn’t the first time Hewson and her online shenanigans have hit national headlines.
In 2015 the civil law barrister branded the now ex-deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland a “cunt” on Twitter. In another colourful tweet, she called on several of the site’s users to “get off my tits, you cunts.”
The experienced lawyer also received widespread criticism after she called for the age of sexual consent to be lowered to just 13. Penning an article for online magazine Spiked back in 2013, she said the move was necessary to end the “persecution of old men”.
Hewson did not respond to Legal Cheek’s request for comment.
Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
“The @barstandards wouldn’t comment” which has been the problem all along. They allowed her to behave appallingly. Reflects badly.
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Interesting comment under Legal Cheek article on Barbara Hewson…
Dame Alun Roberts@ciabaudo
After her early-morning deletions (red), Ginny (Hewson) goes back to delete references supporting Milo (orange).
LazerLight @Lazer_Light23
Really, this is incredible, @ciabaudo. An Irish Barrister attempting to close down exhibition spreading awareness of child sexual abuse?
Barrister, Barbara Hewson attempts to break down the Wall of Silence for #CSA awareness. How pathetic. How telling.
This woman must just hate survivors of CSA…
The same ‘motive’ for calling child sex abuse survivors/campaigners ‘the lunatic fringe’. She wants to discredit anything to do with CSA ..
GhandisOPhoenix@thewakeupcall09@SpectreDetector@ciabaudo@bournemouthuni sharp as a knife.. You
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:whwpbPH4miwJ:retagram.com/hashtag/bournemouthuni+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Nigel Oldfield
https://theukdatabase.com/2012/04/05/nigel-oldfield-doncasterbuxton/
PERVERT RUNS CHILD ABUSE WEBSITE FROM HIS JAIL CELL
A TWISTED teacher Dr Nigel Oldfield jailed for downloading 11,000 vile images of children is masterminding a website for paedophiles from behind bars.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-pervert-runs-child-abuse-555549
Convicted paedophile Nigel Oldfield taunts angry parents by shouting ‘Bring your children to me’ at 100-strong mob surrounding his house
22 June 2017
Nigel Oldfield banned again.
Read his latest comments before getting banned
AVENGER @REBELTROOP
His comments pose grave questions over his suitability as a free man! He should be detained
Dame Alun Roberts@ciabaudo
It also poses grave questions about the bunch of mates surrounding (Barbara) Hewson and (Simon) Just who willingly engaged with him.
Dame Alun Roberts@ciabaudo
I’m not sniping, m’dear. I asked @BarbaraHewson a simple, valid question: Why does she associate with a vile convicted paedophile like you?
How can you claim to represent CSA victims and tweet with this vile paedophile at the same time?
GhandisOPhoenix@GhandisOPhoenix
p.s. I recommend Tom’s excellent treatise on consent, you may be pleasantly surprised 🙂
https://tomocarroll.wordpress.com/tag/consent/
^warning: website of convicted paedophile/ PIE member Tom O’Carroll
https://theukdatabase.com/2012/04/12/thomas-ocarroll-coventrycumbria/
Apr 15 2017
Oh dear, what has happened to the account of @GhandisOPhoenix? He’s the vile paedophile Nigel Leigh Oldfield and Twitter buddy of Hewson.
Account suspended
You should ask John Hemming of his own involvement with paedophiles NIGEL OLDFIELD and BRIAN ROTHERY
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/paedophilia-how-one-piece-of-news-can-kill-a-novel/
John Alexander Melvin Hemming (born 16 March 1960) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and a businessman. He served as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 2005 to 2015.
@johnhemming4mpYour silence on the lampooning of Esther Baker by your friend Hewson is deafening. You seem to condone her behaviour!
Barbara Hewson, best known for ridiculing Esther Baker, is giving you plugs on her TL. Do you associate with her campaign?
Esther Baker
John Hemming MP –
The mistress-loving maverick millionaire
AS his wife is found guilty of stealing his lover’s cat, why life is never dull around John Hemming – the politician accused of having 26 affairs during his marriage.
A former heavy-metal drummer who once put himself forward as a candidate for Britain’s first astronaut, he is a multi-millionaire who set up a company writing software for stockbrokers when he was only 23.
One fellow MP denouncing him as unfit for public office. And as of yesterday he is also the man who drove his long-suffering wife to criminality.
Hemming seems to relish his womaniser image; he once voted for himself in a national poll as Britain’s biggest love rat.
Hemming/Sabine/Marie Black
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Terence Ewing was arrested with Gleaves. Who are these MPs?
Were Austin Mitchell and John Hemming aware of the fact that Terence Ewing was a paedophile?
The Association of McKenzie Friends are the group ‘supporting’ Ella Draper and Abraham Christie, who along with Sabine McNeill are wanted for questioning by police in relation to allegations of harassment and child abuse connected to the Hampstead Satanic Claims.
Belinda McKenzie, Terence Ewing, and Sabine McNeill
Keith Hammerton and Roger Gleaves
Keith Hammerton and Roger Gleaves are both convicted paedophiles.
And both happen to be former business partners of Terence Ewing advisor for ‘The Association of McKenzie Friends’
Terence Ewing and Keith Hammerton- Euston Trust
Terence Ewing and Roger Gleaves- Mephistopheles Debt Collection Service
Terence Ewing, having been described by a high court judge as “unattractive and indicative of a lack of personal integrity and honesty”, is banned from taking a civil action in England and Wales unless he has the permission of a High Court judge. (BBC News)
I’m sure that many will think that this proves nothing other than that Terence Ewing has an extremely poor taste when selecting business partners.
However, call me old fashioned but I do believe that it is extremely unethical and potentially illegal for ‘The Association of McKenzie Friends’ to seek to sell “video evidence”, “interviews with victims of child trafficking”, and “documentation regarding child abuse”.
John Hemming MP withdrew as patron of The Association of McKenzie Friends on 22nd January 2015.
https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/hampstead-mckenzie-friends-and-terence-ewing/
Here’s John Hemming on trafficking children to Jersey. Why has he gone silent on issues like this?
Birmingham council illegally sent children into care in Jersey, MP report reveals
Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, who discovered that his local city council had sent children to Jersey, believes other children from the UK ‘were also placed in care there’.
The MP for Birmingham Yardley added: ‘The Government has refused to order councils to check properly because it does not want to open a can of worms, on the links between abusers in England and Jersey.’
The Mail on Sunday has also learned that children from UK local authorities, which have also been the subject of abuse allegations, were taken on holiday to Haut de la Garenne, where the bone fragments are said to belong to five children whom detectives believe were killed.
Birmingham council discovered it had placed five children in foster care on Jersey because, at Mr Hemming’s request, it checked old accounts. It found it made payments to Jersey for child care between 1960 and 1990. Yet a social work file survived on only one child.
Schools Minister Kevin Brennan has told the Commons that checks are unnecessary because children from the UK cannot be placed in care in Jersey without a court order. Yet the five Birmingham children were sent to Jersey without such orders.
Mr Hemming has asked English councils to check their records under the Freedom of Information Act. He said: ‘Most seem only to have done cursory checks, just checking recent electronic files, or asking around the office.’
A handful of councils refused to check at all.
They included Islington in North London, whose 12 children’s homes were infamously infiltrated between the Seventies and Nineties by a child sex and pornography network, while Margaret Hodge was council leader.
Key staff were from Jersey or had strong Channel Islands connections. The council told Mr Hemming that checking its records would cost too much.
Liz Davies, the former Islington senior social worker who bravely blew the whistle on the scandal, said last night: ‘It is becoming clear that children at Haut de la Garenne were sent on holiday to children’s homes in England which were also notorious for abuse, while the children in the English homes they went to were sent to Haut de la Garenne. They literally swapped beds.’
Lenny Harper
24th June 2017″
http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/2017/06/statement-of-former-deputy-chief-police.html
Barbara Hewson “Ah yes. Lenny Harper and the non-existent dead bodies.”
How can you claim to represent CSA victims and tweet with this vile paedophile at the same time?
Barrister ‘made death threats’ to student
April 12 2017
Barbara Hewson has been accused of online and other abuse. She came to prominence after calling for the age of consent to be lowered in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal
Police have issued a harassment warning to a barrister amid allegations that she waged a campaign of online bullying, abuse and “death threats” against a law student and another lawyer.
Barbara Hewson, 55, who came to prominence after the Jimmy Savile scandal when she called for the age of sexual consent to be substantially lowered, is the subject of mounting complaints to the Bar’s regulator.
At least three complaints have been lodged with the Bar Standards Board, The Times has learnt.
It has also emerged that Ms Hewson, a Court of Protection and human rights specialist, has within the past few weeks left her chambers, 1 Gray’s Inn Square, in London. The chambers, which is also home to the civil liberties lawyer Michael Mansfield, QC,…
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/barrister-made-death-threats-to-student-zx5jjgbjx
Lawyer who was dubbed the ‘bolshiest barrister on Twitter’ and called for age of consent to be lowered to 13 ‘made death threats’ to law student
It is not the first time Miss Hewson has aroused controversy.
She caused outrage after the Jimmy Savile abuse allegations when she called for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 and for an end to the ‘persecution of old men’.
She has also questioned whether rape victims are ‘utterly innocent’ and suggested that they can have a ‘moral responsibility for the crime’.
Miss Hewson said rape victims had a ‘moral responsibility’ and cases were rarely straight forward where one party was ‘utterly guilty’ or ‘utterly innocent’.
And she described Scotland Yard’s investigations into historic sexual abuse as a ‘witch hunt’.
In September 2016 Miss Hewson said it was time to ‘put an end to the whole fiasco’. Writing for the Daily Mail, she called for the inquiry into historic abuse to be closed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4404324/Barrister-death-threats-law-student.html
Cassandra Cogno @CassandraCogno
Why would someone (Hewson) sabotage their own career so relentlessly for 3 years?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4404324/Barrister-death-threats-law-student.html …
So you want to give ageing paedophiles a leg-up? Try this: – Reduce AoC to 13 – Remove victim anonymity – Introduce statute of limitations
2013
Barbara Hewson calls Hall’s crimes “misdemeanours” and warns against “fetishising victimhood”
Age of consent should be 13, says barrister
Among those to have been convicted is former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall, who admitted 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls, including one aged nine, between 1967 and 1985.
The Hardwicke chambers, where Ms Hewson works in London, said it dissociated itself from her comments.
In a statement, Hardwicke said: “We are shocked by the views expressed in Barbara Hewson’s article in Spiked.
“We did not see or approve the article pre-publication and we completely dissociate ourselves from its content and any related views she may have expressed via social media or any other media outlets.”
How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain
7 Dec 2018
That Spiked magazine’s US funding arm received $300,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation suggests a hidden agenda
Dark money is among the greatest current threats to democracy. It means money spent below the public radar, that seeks to change political outcomes. It enables very rich people and corporations to influence politics without showing their hands.
Explosive report into child sexual abuse at Croydon children’s home Shirley Oaks names 27 alleged paedophiles
Staff at the Shirley Oaks home, doctors, teachers, vicars and football coaches have all been named
An explosive report into sexual abuse and ‘widespread corruption’ at a Croydon children’s home includes the names of 27 people abuse survivors claim are paedophiles.
Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (SOSA) published the report today following its two-year-long investigation into child abuse inside south London’s care system.
Testimonies of more than 400 residents of children’s homes have been included in the findings, which were shared today at a conference in central London.
Staff at the Shirley Oaks home, doctors, teachers, vicars and football coaches have all been named in the report.
The report claims at least 60 paedophiles operated in the Wickham Road children’s home, and 27 alleged abusers have now been named.
link
“Shirley Oaks seemed to develop a model for paedophiles that worked. That was the ability to control the movement of children and that was replicated in Lambeth council.”
SOSA’s report claims 31 paedophiles were connected to the home or the authority, including Philip Temple, a former senior housefather at Rowan House at Shirley Oaks who was jailed for 12 years in August for abusing 12 young people over 25 years.
Michael Mansfield is representing the survivors.
ShirleyOaksSurvivors @ShirleyOaksSA 14 Sep 2016
Photos of children being abused found in Lambeth senior officer’s filing cupboard
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07vd212/victoria-derbyshire-14092016 …
Kim Amanda Maloney @kimamaloney
Shirley oaks and Edward Heath all connected . My hubby went on so called sailing holidays too jersey from Shirley oaks . Lots abused
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Clues Lacking In Bermuda Murders The Dispatch 13-03-73
Sir Richard Sharples murdered, a close friend of Ted Heath
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Worcester
Robin Walker MP – father Peter Walker MBE was Chairman of the Carlton Club
Peter Walker
In 1958 he became the youngest to-date National Chairman of the Young Conservatives.[1] Walker was a founder of the Tory Reform Group, and served as Chairman of the Carlton Club.
He later served as Minister of Housing and Local Government (1970), Secretary of State for the Environment (1970–72), and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1972–74) under Prime Minister Edward Heath.
Robin Walker – press officer for Oliver Letwin
In 2011 Walker married Charlotte Keenan,[18] former Chief Executive of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.[19][20]
Married music teacher at £33,000-a-year boarding school subjected teenage schoolgirl to ‘vile’ bondage abuse in violin lessons then critiqued her sexual technique
- Dara de Cogan had taught at top private school Ampleforth College since 2004
- The married teacher lusted after the girl who saw him as a ‘substitute father’
- He subjected her to bondage sessions and then critiqued her like a music lesson
- The 58-year-old was sentenced to 28 months in prison at York Crown Court
- De Cogan was also made to sign the sex offenders register for ten years
A music teacher at a top private school subjected a girl to ‘vile’ bondage sessions and critiqued her sexual technique in the same he would her violin playing.
Married Dara de Cogan, now 58, had lusted after the girl – who was more than 30 years his junior and saw him as a ‘substitute father’ – since she was 13.
York Crown Court heard the girl was a gifted student at £33,000-a-year Ampleforth College, in North Yorkshire.
De Cogan, born in Ireland, was also a musician of international acclaim who was appointed Head of Strings at the boarding school, which boasts Rupert Everett and James Norton among its alumni, in 2004.
The married man, who has two adopted daughters, tutored her in the violin.
The girl, now in her 20s, said in a victim impact statement read to the court that her musical ambitions after university had been thwarted by what she has gone through.
She added: ‘He took advantage of me in the most manipulative and vile way possible.
Judge Andrew Stubbs told him: ‘You took advantage of her immaturity, insecurity and innocence.
‘When parents send their children to school they entrust their most precious possession to the care and protection of others.
‘This was an abject failure of trust both in the college and you.’
De Cogan, of Kilburn village, North Yorkshire, admitted ten counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.
He was jailed for 28 months with half to be served and ordered to sign on a sex offenders register for ten years.
De Cogan bowed to the judge and smiled to his family before being handcuffed in the dock and taken into custody.
His wife of more than 25 years who sat in the public gallery was said by the defence to be standing by him.
Dublin-born De Cogan, became leader of the Irish Youth Orchestra in 1978 and represented his country in the European Community Youth Orchestra.
He started his music with legendary Irish violinist Mary Gallagher and continued his studies at the Royal College of Music with Jaraslav Vanecek.
In 1982, he joined the Hall Orchestra in Manchester and became Principal Second Violin in 1986.
During his time in Manchester, he worked extensively with special needs children particularly with the Royal Schools for the Deaf. (the current queen is its patron.)
The Royal Schools has some 78 children – It is claimed that the Royal Schools for the Deaf in Cheadle Hulme had a culture of neglect. Social services in Stockport, the borough in which the school is based, received a number of allegations from former members of staff.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/1272440.stm
Formerly the Royal School for the Deaf, Queen Victoria bestowed royal patronage upon them during her Jubilee year in 1897. In 2008 the charity changed its name to Seashell Trust and now comprises Royal School Manchester and Royal College Manchester.
Seashell Trust has maintained strong connections with the Royal family and in recent years they have had the pleasure of welcoming several members of the Royal family to their site, notably Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
http://www.thepatronslunch.com/infocus_seashell
Alongside his orchestral work, he ran his own Irish band, Delginis, and was String Coach and Artistic Director for the Hebridean Youth Project Summer Music School.
He became Head of Strings at Ampleforth College in 2004 and was involved in coaching various youth orchestras, as well as private individual tuition.
He job was to teach classroom music to year 9, and music technology to years 12 and 13.
He provided individual tuition on violin and viola and directed the Pro Musica Ensemble, the Ceilidh Band and jointly directed the College Orchestra.
Alongside his classic music interests, he has played in many folk music ensembles and has worked widely in the recording industry.
School for deaf accused of ‘catalogue of child abuse’
A YEAR-LONG investigation of a leading school for the deaf by police and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has disclosed “an appalling catalogue of child abuse and neglect”.
Among the allegations are that some pupils at the Royal School for the Deaf in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Greater Manchester, suffered broken bones and lost teeth, while others were subjected to unwarranted restraining procedures.
NSPCC officials also investigated claims that deaf or emotionally disturbed children had been punched, tied up and doused with water hoses.
Ian MacLeary, the school’s chief executive, said a new governing body had dealt with many of the issues raised in the report. New training procedures had also been introduced.
A year-long child protection investigation carried out by the
NSPCC for the council severely criticised the Royal Schools for the Deaf Manchester over allegations of abuse between 1995 and 2000.
Four members of staff were suspended last year and police
investigations resulted in five cases being passed to the Crown
Prosecution Service. The CPS has rejected four of the cases.
The full NSPCC report is confidential, but the school has agreed
to implement a 21-point action plan published by the council.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2001/04/12/school-for-deaf-and-disabled-children-under-threat/
Royal School for the Deaf in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Greater Manchester,
9 AUG 2004
Today, despite the year-long inquiry into unexplained injuries to children as well as into poor care and practice, it emerged that no one is likely to face criminal prosecution. Youngsters at the school are regarded as incapable of giving evidence in court.
Last year the MEN revealed how Mark Fisher, 33, – who later resigned in disgust after nine years as a support worker at the school – and two colleagues compiled a dossier detailing 142 allegations of abuse by staff. The evidence was handed to social services and to the police.
A spokesman for the National Deaf Children’s Society, said it was appalled by the NSPCC report and was gravely concerned by the extent of abuse at the school.
Unless significant immediate action was taken by the school, the society would advise parents to move their children elsewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/12/education.schools1
New boss named for troubled deaf school
A CHILD welfare expert has been drafted in as the new boss of the troubled Royal Schools for the Deaf, Manchester.
- 9 AUG 2004
- Updated: 22 JAN 2013
A CHILD welfare expert has been drafted in as the new boss of the troubled Royal Schools for the Deaf, Manchester.
NSPCC director Karen Wright, a 47-year-old mother of four, will take up the chief executive’s post in July.
Her appointment comes just over a week after headteacher Leighton Reed resigned following a year-long inquiry by the NSPCC.
Ms Wright was not involved in the probe, which found “serious problems” with the school at Cheadle Hulme, Stockport.
The investigation was launched after the M.E.N. revealed how whistleblowing staff members compiled a dossier of allegations, including physical abuse of pupils.
It was claimed children suffered broken bones, were tied up in wheelchairs and one was hosed down with cold water.
Ms Wright said: “I was not involved in the investigation, although I was kept aware of it.
The current chief executive, Ian MacLeary, retires on July 1, when he turns 65. The charity says his retirement is unconnected to the scandal.
Four members of staff were suspended by the school, which said there were innocent explanations for injuries suffered by pupils.
- Police interviewed dozens of members of staff, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was no realistic chance of securing convictions because the alleged victims, who suffer physical and learning disabilities as well as deafness, would be incapable of giving evidence.
New name for historic deaf school
18 APR 2010
The Royal School for the Deaf in Cheadle has got a new name.
it has now been re-branded as the Seashell Trust.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/new-name-for-historic-deaf-school-972859
and another Royal School for the deaf…Derby
Royal School for the Deaf Derby in special measures
Music professor at Ampleforth School in court on sex offence charges
Dara de Cogan, a founder-member of European Community Youth Orchestra
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Dublin-born De Cogan, became leader of the Irish Youth Orchestra in 1978 and represented his country in the European Community Youth Orchestra.
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European Community Youth Orchestra – that was Edward Heath’s province too
Heath made a special point of conducting orchestras involving young musicians. While still prime minister, he conducted the Academy of the BBC at the 50th anniversary concert in the series for children founded by Sir Robert Mayer. Later, it was through Heath’s help that the European Community Youth Orchestra was set up. He became its president, and conducted it on summer tours in 1978, 1979 and 1980.
A vanished file and troubling claims about Heath and young musicians
The ensemble in question was the European Community Youth Orchestra, and it was about to embark on its inaugural tour of EEC capitals. It was to be a flagship for pan-European cultural co-operation.
The 135 musicians, some of whom were as young as 14, were drawn from the then nine member nations. Heath, an enthusiastic amateur musician who had led the United Kingdom into the European Community five years before, was the orchestra’s founding president. He would also be its guest conductor for that tour and several tours to come.
In an intriguing development, the Mail learned this week that a file relating to Sir Edward and the infamous Paedophile Information Exchange group is one of those missing from official Government records.
It is among 114 missing files concerning child abuse identified by an independent review of how allegations were handled by the Home Office.
The title of the missing document, ‘Edward Heath MP [redacted] RE: PIE’, refers to the activities of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Investigators discovered that the file disappeared more than 25 years ago after being moved to a Westminster record centre. They concluded that there was no evidence of any orchestrated attempts by officials over three decades to cover up child abuse.
But the unexpected absence of the file raises questions about the exact nature of the connection between Heath and the PIE group.
Further new allegations of sexual abuse and possible official cover-up concerning Sir Edward have come to light. They centre on his relationship with the European Community Youth Orchestra.
A retired senior police officer, who served with several southern forces including Wiltshire, told the Mail that there were ‘always rumours’ about Heath, the former MP for Bexley.
The policeman — a widely respected officer with a distinguished career — asked that due to the sensitivities of the Heath investigations, he remain anonymous. He told us that the rumours did not come with any specific evidence against the former PM.
But he went on: ‘The exception were several allegations made against him in his role with the European Youth Orchestra. I understand there were credible claims that Heath indecently assaulted young people on tours to the Continent which he was leading.
‘These tours took place in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
‘It was never clear how old the victims were, or exactly what happened, and what was alleged was not at the top end of the scale of criminality.
‘Why these were never investigated I cannot say. I suspect it is because they took place overseas and the victims were from other countries.’
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The real reason why PIE existed…….
Ted Heath would have known Dara De Cogan through the European Community Youth Orchestra.
And Heath links to another Ampleforth paedophile – Piers Grant-Ferris – his father Lord Harvington was good friends with Heath and Thatcher.
Music professor at Ampleforth School in court on sex offence charges
A LEADING Roman Catholic school has been rocked by abuse allegations after a music professor appeared in court accused of sex offences against a girl more than 30 years his junior.
Irish-born classical musician and composer Dara De Cogan, 57, was appointed performing arts professor at Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire, in 2004.
The gifted violinist is charged with 12 counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.
The court heard the victim was a girl aged 16 and 17 at the time of the alleged offences between December 2007 and December 2009.
Dublin-born De Cogan, became leader of the Irish Youth Orchestra in 1978 and represented his country in the European Community Youth Orchestra.
In 1982, he joined the Hallé Orchestra and has played in folk music ensembles and has worked widely in the recording industry.
His court appearance came just weeks after it was confirmed Ampleforth is to be included in one of three public hearings carried out in the national child sexual abuse inquiry.
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‘Forty’ abusers at Catholic school
November 28 2017
Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire is accused of being a “honeypot” for offenders
Forty monks and teachers have been accused of sexually abusing boys at a leading Roman Catholic school that allegedly became a “honeypot” for offenders, it was revealed yesterday.
Reports of child sex offences at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire were disclosed yesterday at a public hearing of an inquiry into the handling of abuse allegations by the Catholic church.
As a case study, the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) is examining safeguarding policies at two fee-paying boarding schools run by the English Benedictine Congregation — Ampleforth, and Downside in Somerset. Riel Karmy-Jones, QC, counsel to the inquiry, said that it would consider the prevalence of child abuse within the Catholic church and the extent to which Catholic culture “has or does inhibit the proper investigation and prevention” of such crimes.
Since 1996 three monks and two lay teachers at Ampleforth have been convicted of sex offences against pupils, but Ms Karmy-Jones said that the inquiry had been notified of multiple allegations against about 40 monks and teachers.
In an opening statement on behalf of 29 abuse survivors Richard Scorer, a specialist abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon, the law firm, said that the “temptation to cover up” such crimes was “particularly acute in institutions associated with the Roman Catholic Church”. He said: “Where reputation is key to an organisation’s existence, there is likely to be an almost overwhelming desire to find some way of avoiding the bad publicity associated with child sex abuse.” Shared awareness among child abusers that their misconduct would be covered up, or dealt with in-house, explained why “some institutions become honeypots where multiple offenders operate”.
Mr Scorer urged the inquiry to consider recommending a change in the law to make failure to report abuse a criminal offence.
On behalf of 14 victims and survivors, David Enright said that it was “very difficult to explain” to a non-Catholic “the power and depth of influence the Catholic church exerts over its members. The abusers were not only men in positions of trust; they were seen by the abused, and their families, as spokesmen for the God they worship. It is hard to imagine a greater hold that a child abuser could have over his victim.”
Matthias Kelly, QC, counsel for Ampleforth, said that the school and the abbey wanted “to apologise for the hurt, injury, distress and damage done to those who were abused as a result of our failings”. He said that the school’s policy today was one of “full, transparent and immediate co-operation with the statutory agencies”.
For Downside and the English Benedictine Congregation, Kate Gallafent, QC, said that the Catholic church was committed to giving the inquiry “its full co-operation. The congregation expresses profound shame that any child has been the victim of sexual abuse whilst in the care of the schools connected with its abbeys.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/forty-abusers-at-catholic-school-w75b7wfjg
Former pupils tell inquiry of sexual abuse by priests at Ampleforth College
Boys as young as six allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted at Roman Catholic school in Yorkshire, inquiry into child abuse hears
29 Nov 2017
Priests at a leading Roman Catholic school abused boys as young as six, including beatings and sexual assaults, the national inquiry into child abuse has heard.
Former pupils at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire gave evidence to a hearing in London on Wednesday, and written statements by other former pupils were read.
Many of the allegations centred on two priests, Piers Grant-Ferris who was jailed for two years in 2006 for 20 counts of indecent assault on boys in his care, and another priest referred to as RCF4.
One witness who spent 11 years at Ampleforth College and its preparatory school Gilling Castle from 1965 to 1976, said RCF4 had treated him “disgracefully”. “He was physically violent from the outset… I was physically and psychologically abused,” he told the hearing. RCF4 had been “nasty, cruel and physically violent towards me”.
In his second year, when the witness was eight years old, he said Grant-Ferris would walk behind boys sitting at long refectory tables for meals and select children for beatings. “If he stopped behind you and tapped you, then you knew it was you. If he stopped behind someone else and tapped them, one thing that disturbs me to this day is the feeling of relief that it wasn’t going to be me,” he said.
Once he was beaten in the chapel confessional by the priest after being told to take off his clothes. “It was always with his hands … and his hands would always linger on one’s bare bottom after each smack.”
On another occasion, the witness said Grant-Ferris told him to undress and lie face down on the priest’s bed. “He proceeded to take my temperature rectally. I didn’t even know people could have their temperatures taken rectally, I’d only ever had a thermometer put in my mouth. I begged him not to do it, because I didn’t know what was happening, but he continued anyway. I think technically that was a form of rape.”
Grant-Ferris, the son of a Tory peer, was “the full authority figure” the witness told the hearing. At the school, there were “sexual overtones and currents all the time”, he added.
After he left school, the witness suffered a “total psychological collapse” which lasted seven or eight years. “I wasn’t able to do anything, I couldn’t function.”
He said he believed that Basil Hume, who was abbot of Ampleforth Abbey for 13 years until appointed archbishop of Westminster in 1976, had been aware of abuse at the schools. “I have no doubt he knew exactly what was going on at the time.”
Another witness, who was sent to Gilling Castle at the age of six, told the hearing that he and other boys would cry under their blankets at night as monks wearing long black robes patrolled the dormitories. Grant-Ferris was known as “Pervy Piers” among the children, he said.
According to yet another statement, Grant-Ferris was “handsome and aristocratic” with a perpetual mood of excitement.
This witness also described how another teacher had put his hand down the boy’s trousers “to check my breathing” when he was auditioning for the choir. As a result of his experiences, he said: “I became a very quiet child who didn’t talk to people much.”
The inquiry also heard from a female former pupil at Ampleforth College, who left the school in 2010. She said that a music teacher, Dara De-Cogan, had sexually abused her over a period of years. De-Cogan was jailed for 28 months earlier this year pleading guilty to 10 charges of engaging in sexual activity while in a position of trust.
The witness said that he had groomed her from the age of 13, and his abuse resulted in her self-harming. “I thought I deserved to be punished somehow for what I was doing … [self-harming] gave me a sense of numbness.”
On some occasions, De-Cogan gave her marks out of 10 for oral sex, she said. “He would comment on it as if it was a piece of homework.”
Child protection procedures at Ampleforth were “very poor”, she said. Because of earlier convictions of monks, the college had an “obsessive emphasis on the completion of paperwork, but common sense and looking at what was in front of their faces – that went by the wayside.”
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse began a three-week hearing on Monday focusing on the Benedictine schools of Ampleforth and Downside. In some cases, abusers were permitted to stay in their posts and allowed to have contact with children and other vulnerable individuals, the hearing was told earlier this week.
Piers Grant-Ferris/Heath /Ampleforth/Jersey
Piers Grant-Ferris – His secret past as a serial abuser of young boys at Ampleforth. He was an officer in the Irish Guards before becoming a novice monk in the Benedictine Order in 1955.
His late father, Lord harvington, the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons during Ted Heath’s Government and member of a prominent English Roman Catholic family – retired to Jersey
Life in Jersey revolved around hunting, golf, motor yachting, and farming. Lord Harvington was also a noted breeder of pedigree sheep and former president of the National Sheep Breeders Association. Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and her husband were among the guests on his yacht.
He served at Our Lady and St Michael’s Church in Workington, Cumbria, between 1978 and 1989, when he was chaplain to St Joseph’s RC School, before returning to Ampleforth Abbey where he was much sought-after to lead retreats.
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Ampleforth College
Piers Grant-Ferris/Heath /Ampleforth/Jersey
Piers Grant-Ferris – His secret past as a serial abuser of young boys at Ampleforth. He was an officer in the Irish Guards before becoming a novice monk in the Benedictine Order in 1955.
His late father, Lord harvington, the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons during Ted Heath’s Government and member of a prominent English Roman Catholic family – retired to Jersey
Life in Jersey revolved around hunting, golf, motor yachting, and farming. Lord Harvington was also a noted breeder of pedigree sheep and former president of the National Sheep Breeders Association. Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and her husband were among the guests on his yacht.
He served at Our Lady and St Michael’s Church in Workington, Cumbria, between 1978 and 1989, when he was chaplain to St Joseph’s RC School, before returning to Ampleforth Abbey where he was much sought-after to lead retreats.
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Sir Robert Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington (1907-1997)
Although he appeared to be fairly typical of the Conservative knights of the shire, a landowner and sheep breeder, who was noted for his passion for hunting and whose other principal recreation was yachting, Robert Grant-Ferris was a product of Douai rather than Eton, and he had the unusual distinction of owing his knighthood and later his Barony to the Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. Although he remained a Conservative, he had come to be more a servant of the House of Commons than his party, and he spent his last four years in the House fittingly enough as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker. A man of considerable charm and great energy, he was well-liked in the House and thought of as a possible successor when Dr Horace King retired. However, Selwyn Lloyd was the preferred candidate of the Conservative Party.
Robert Grant Ferris was born on 30 December 1907, the son of a General Practitioner, Dr Robert Francis Ferris, but he seems to have been brought up by his widowed mother, Ellen (d.1955) at Falcon Hill, Cotteridge. Her sister had bought the property in 1892 and Mrs Ferris moved in with her. Robert could often be seen as a child riding his pony in the grounds. The family were strong Roman Catholics and Mrs Ferris seems to have bought Harvington Hall for the Birmingham diocese in 1923. Robert was educated at Douai, the independent school run by the Benedictine monks of Douai Abbey at Woolhampton. Early in life he hyphenated his name, adding an additional Grant to it. He made his early career in a firm of estate agents with whom his family had connections, but his eyes seem to have been firmly fixed elsewhere, on politics – he was elected to the Birmingham City Council in 1933 – and on flying. He joined 605 (County of Warwick) Auxiliary Air Force Squadron in 1933, and by the time the war came was a Flight Lieutenant. He began taking his bar examinations in 1932 and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1937.
He continued to live with his mother until 1930 when he married Florence Brennan de Vine, daughter of Major Brennan de Vine MC, who died in 1996. They had two children, a son, Piers, who became a monk and taught at Ampleforth, and a daughter, Sheila, with whom he later lived in Jersey. It was fortunate that neither parent lived to see their son identified and tried for the abuse of pupils in his care.
In the 1935 General Election he fought Wigan as a Conservative but lost heavily. Less than two years later, in February 1937, he fought St Pancras North in a by-election and won narrowly. Apart from his staunch support for General Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Grant-Ferris had little impact on the Commons in the late 30s, arguably because he was concentrating on becoming a front-line airman. By 1939 he commanded one of the flights in his squadron and in 1941 was promoted to Wing Commander. During the war he saw active service in France, Malta, Egypt and India.
Towards the end of the war he gave up active service for a return to more active participation in the House of Commons and became PPS to W.S.Morrison, the Minister of Town and Country Planning 1944-45. However, he was swept out of the Commons in the Labour landslide of 1945 by 7,630 votes and did not continue as the Conservative candidate for St Pancras North. Instead he concentrated on his farm and on his directorship of the publishing company, Burns, Oates and Washburne. He became deputy chairman on the Board of the Roman Catholic weekly, The Tablet, a role that he relinquished only in November 1997.
Although a by-election was called in St Pancras North in 1949, Grant-Ferris was not called upon to fight it, and his next attempt at Parliament was in Central Wandsworth, a seat that he failed to take in both the 1950 and 1951 General Elections.
Nantwich, which he won in the 1955 General Election gave him a safe berth until he chose to stand down just before the February 1974 election. In 1962 he became one of the panel of Chairman, who chair standing committees in the Commons. He was well known for his fairness and amiability, and there were many who thought that he would make an excellent Speaker. In 1970 he was appointed deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means. He had been knighted in 1969 and he was sworn of the Privy Council in 1971. Although not included in Heath’s dissolution honours, he was one of fifteen life peers nominated by Harold Wilson in the summer of 1974 and the only one with no Labour affiliation. He took his title from the house that his mother had given to the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
He always took a considerable interest in Britain’s inland waterways and was one of the Inland Waterways Association’s most influential allies in the House of Commons. He was elected a Vice-President in 1966 and was chairman of the original All-party Waterways Committee.
As privy chamberlain of the sword and cape to Pope Pius XII, Pope John XXIII and Paul VI, Grant-Ferris spent a week each year in attendance on the Pontiff. His strong opposition to abortion was thought to emanate from the Vatican rather than the Catholic hierarchy in this country. He became a Knight Grand Cross of Magistral Grace 1949 and of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta in 1953.
He was the chairman of the Board of Management of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John’s Wood 1963-70.
Grant-Ferris was a notable breeder of sheep, serving as President of the Southdown Sheep Society of England on three occasions (1950-52, 1959-60, 1973) and presiding over the National Sheep Breeders of Britain 1956-58. He became a Vice President of the Smithfield Club in 1963 and President in 1970.
He was a man with many interests, keen on both hunting and golf, but his main passion was his motor yacht, the 43 ton Melita. He entertained both Edward Heath and the Thatchers aboard her but his plans for a summer cruise with the Thatchers around northern France a year before the couple entered Downing Street had to be cancelled when the French police said they could not guarantee the party’s security. He was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron and of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, and for a time Honorary Admiral of the House of Commons Yacht Club. He was also a member of the Royal and Ancient at St Andrews, the MCC and, of course, the Carlton Club.
After his retirement from the House he lived abroad for tax reasons, initially in Malta and then in Jersey, although he would contribute to debates in the Lords when the taxman let him return. In 1980, he was one of those who rebelled over the school transport clauses of Mark Carlisle’s Education Bill, which would have imposed charges on the ‘free’ transport enjoyed by students at faith schools.
http://barneshistorian.com/vm-ferris.php
Top public school suspends child sex charges teacher
THE head of music at a prestigious private school has been suspended following allegations he sexually assaulted a pupil three decades ago.
Sean Ambrose Farrell, 49, denied two charges of indecent assault and two charges of gross indecency when he appeared before York magistrates last week.
All four offences are alleged to have been committed against a child aged under 14 at the time at Ampleforth College’s junior school.
Ampleforth College, where teacher Sean Farrell worked in the 1980s
Farrell, of Riddings Road, Ilkley, was released on bail on condition that he has no unsupervised contact with children aged under 16.
He has been removed from his post at Wellington College, in Berkshire – which counts the late actor Sir Christopher Lee and Will Young among its alumni – several months ago after North Yorkshire Police launched an investigation.
A Wellington College spokesman said: “In line with our safeguarding procedures, Wellington suspended the member of staff concerned and excluded him from the school site as soon as it was made aware that the police were investigating these accusations.”
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15132702.Top_public_school_suspends_child_sex_charges_teacher/
Leeds General Infirmary – Edward Heath and Jimmy Savile – Leeds
1980 Former Prime Minister Edward Heath (right) and Jimmy Savile rehearse for an episode of Jim’ll Fix It at the BBC Shepherd’s Bush Theatre. Mr Heath will be conducting an orchestral piece at the request of viewer, and composer, Sybil Howlett.
Claridges Hotel, London – a dinner to mark another former Tory Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath’s 50th anniversary as a member of Parliament.
29th February 2000
William Hague
Well connected: Ted Heath, pictured during his glory years, was a friend of Sting and Bob Geldof
Ampleforth
Monk ‘who ran sex club involving young boys’ at country’s top Catholic School ‘remained in his job for eight years after allegations were first made’
Apr 5 2017
- Father Jeremy Sierla allegedly ran ‘sex club’ for boys at Ampleforth College
- He remained at Catholic school for eight years after allegations first made
- Police told he would make pupils perform sex acts in their pyjamas
- Investigation began in 2004 but no charges were ever brought against him
Detectives spoke to more than a dozen young men who attended the school’s Junior House between 1990 and 1993 when Father Jeremy was housemaster.
Some recalled the monk whipping boys’ bottoms with his habit, encouraging the pupils to tie him up, showering naked with them and putting his hands under their duvets, the Times reported.
Photos and video clips – none indecent – of Ampleforth pupils were found on Father Jeremy’s computer, including one of a 12-year-old boy holding a rose in his mouth.
The investigation was triggered when the same boy, in his early 20s by 2004, made allegations to police about abuse he claimed Father Jeremy had subjected him to.
The monk was not charged after prosecutors ruled there was insufficient evidence against him, and the CPS said the case file was destroyed years ago, the Times reported.
Father Jeremy continued to work in the abbey shop from 2004 to 2012 and posed for photographs to promote Ampleforth’s own brand Abbey Beer.
A music teacher, Dara de Cogan, who joined Ampleforth in 2004 was jailed last week for sexually abusing a female student during violin lessons.
A school spokesman said that Father Jeremy’s continued presence at Ampleforth was approved at a meeting of safeguarding professionals in 2004 and that his case was reviewed again in 2007 by an independent safeguarding commission.
It took a further five years before the Department for Education (DfE)told Ampleforth he should not be allowed on school grounds.
TheDfE said that it was unable to discuss individual cases but stressed it was ‘paramount that children are protected at school and that there are robust safeguards in place’.
It added: ‘Where schools fail to meet standards, we will not hesitate to take action.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4384898/Monk-ran-sex-club-young-boys-Catholic-School.html
Ampleforth College will be focus of inquiry into abuse
May 27, 2017
The preliminary hearing relating to Ampleforth College will be held in London on June 6 to examine procedural issues ahead of the full inquiry which is due to start in December.
Inquiry officials have previously revealed more than 4,000 potentially relevant documents have been obtained from the English Benedictine Congregation and from schools including Ampleforth.
Edward Ted Heath Christopher Soames at the Young Winston Film Premiere July 1972
Dinner at the Carlton: The New Tory power brokers
2009
Unveiling a plaque to Lady Churchill with Sir Nicholas Soames
Tories BOW to wealthy antiques dealers and DROP ban on elephant ivory in manifesto:
Lady Victoria Borwick is related by marriage to the notorious McAlpine family.
Her husband’s uncle is Alistair McAlpine, alleged child abuser.
Lord “Jamie” Borwick – nephew of Lord Alistair McAlpine
Victoria’s husband, Geoffrey Robert James Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick aka “Jamie”, is the son of Hon. Patricia Garnett McAlpine – Patricia’s brother is Alistair McAlpine
http://www.thepeerage.com/p14612.htm#i146113
Lady Victoria Borwick is MP for Kensington and Chelsea, preceded by Malcolm Rifkind who is a cousin of alleged child abuser, former Tory Cabinet minister, Leon Brittan.
Lord Alistair McAlpine was also a collector.
Art collector Lord McAlpine in Sydney
McAlpine also collected works by convicted paedophile Graham Ovenden
Lord Alpine was in convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s black book.
Tories BOW to wealthy antiques dealers and DROP ban on elephant ivory in manifesto
Foxes, badgers, robins and now ELEPHANTS: hidden manifesto plan by Tories to allow ivory trade
Under David Cameron the Conservatives had pledged – along with other UK political parties – to put into place a ban on ivory trading. This follows bans by China, the US and other important ivory trading countries to end domestic trades in ivory by the end of 2017.
But there is no mention of the ban in Theresa May’s Tory 2017 manifesto. Sneakily, the Tories have decided to DROP their previous commitment to introducing a total ban on ivory trade in Britain. This comes after heavy pressure from wealthy antiques traders who have been lobbying Teresa May hard to drop the ban on ivory.
The most powerful UK antique traders association is the British Antique Dealers’ Association – whose president is Tory MP and pal of Theresa May, Lady Victoria Borwick.
On average, an elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory and their population has fallen by almost a third in Africa since 2007.
Interestingly, this policy puts the Tories in direct conflict with Prince William, who has been a vocal supporter of a total ban on ivory sales.
Will we see the Duke of Cambridge campaigning for Labour – which has pledged to introduce the total ban the Prince has been lobbying for?
At William Hague Farewell Dinner with William Hague and Victoria Borwick
Victoria Borwick
She works on a daily basis with the big pillars of authority in London, such as the Metropolitan Police.
Does she ever take issue with the Metropolitan Police, or any other authority? “Of course…of course.”
http://henpicked.net/interview-with-victoria-borwick-deputy-mayor-of-london/
Victoria Borwick – gifts and hospitality
She worked in senior management for P&O and DMG World Media (Daily Mail and General Trust plc) before becoming the Conservative Party’s fundraising director.[2]
The Busy Borwicks
Son of Kensington MP Lady Borwick’s curious connections to the people who ensured both Brexit and the election of Donald Trump revealed
On Sunday, Carole Cadwalladr of The Observer published a lengthy and well researched article that, amongst other things, examined the connections between The Hon. Thomas Borwick – the son of the Conservative hereditary peer The Rt. Hon. The Lord Borwick and Kensington’s Member of Parliament Lady ‘Call me Victoria’ Borwick – and the controversial US hedge fund titan and backer of Donald Trump, Robert Mercer.
A director of a multitude of companies, in spite of being just 29 years old, “new media expert” Thomas Borwick – whose mother was forced to apologise “after using City Hall resources to promote her husband’s [now defunct] electric vehicle business” in 2009 – it now transpires, was not only Vote Leave’s chief technology officer but previously worked with SCL/Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ. Borwick currently touts himself to his 202 followers on Twitter as the founder of a political canvasing consultancy named Kan.to, an organisation that he boldy claims “will out-organise, out-plan, out-leaflet, out-twitter, out-work and out-vote all of its opponents”.
Mercer, one of the owners of the far-right Breitbart News Network as well as being a major shareholder in Cambridge Analytica, is a man whose “sinister” connections to both Trump and Nigel Farage have rightly been widely criticised. On that basis, that the son of fervent Brexiteer Lady Borwick – a woman whose constituents voted 69% to ‘Remain’ and whose domain was home to a greater proportion of EU nationals than any other London borough in 2016 – has links to this billionaire and his activities should only encourage the voters of Kensington to ditch her and her out-of-touch party.
Son of Tory MP beaten unconscious outside Leicester Square KFC by 3 women
He said: ‘At some point they started pushing and shoving – three at that stage, of which only two were particularly aggressive. I couldn’t hypothecate (?) or guess what was on their minds. At some point my food and drink spilled and was taken from me.
The computer app writer was queuing with friends when they became embroiled in a row with the women over space.
‘Tom was among a group of six friends on a night out in London,’ said Lady Borwick, who was previously Boris Johnson’s deputy.
They noticed these women, and Tom said something
2015
Revealed: The ‘triple dipper’ Conservative MP who is paid nearly £100,000 a year for three elected jobs
Victoria Borwick, the MP for Kensington, is paid an extra £30,000 a year as both a councillor at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and member of the London Assembly
Mrs Borwick, 59, whose application to replace Sir Malcolm Rifkind in the seat was personally backed by London Mayor Boris Johnson, defended her decision.
She can use the title “Lady” because she is married to Lord Borwick, a hereditary peer who has sat in the House of Lords since 2013. The couple live in a £6.6million home in Chelsea and have four children.
Mrs Borwick’s predecessor as MP for Kensington Sir Malcolm Rifkind had complained that it was “unrealistic” to live on £60,000 shortly before quitting after being caught in a cash for access investigation by The Daily Telegraph in February.
She paid tribute to Sir Malcolm Rifkind, saying: “Many people will be sad to see someone so distinguished leave. They are very grateful for all that he did in services to our country and also to Kensington. I have big shoes to fill.”
“The Tories got rid of one Rifkind (Cash for Access) and now replaced him with ‘Madam Rifkind’, who thinks it is perfectly reasonable to use these jobs to rake in as much money as possible.”
Tory Donor List – Borwicks
Slumming it: Tory Lady ventures into East End
Against this backdrop, Lady Borwick, aka Assembly Member Victoria Lorne Peta Borwick, a Deputy Mayor of London, deigned to drop into Tower Hamlets last week to claim the credit for Tower Hamlets’ work in promoting good health in its schools (that’s the schools which Lady Borwick’s party is trying to dismantle).
2007:
Trump crony Rudy Giuliaini drew inspiration from Winston Churchill in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack on New York, he revealed.
Mr Giuliani cited the alliance between Churchill and Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair and George W Bush as evidence of the powerful bond between Britain and the US. He would make it his mission as President to strengthen the relationship further.
The lunch was attended by about 100 wealthy Americans and dozens of London-based US correspondents.
Conservative mayoral contender Victoria Borwick, who has pledged to introduce Giuliani-style zero tolerance policing, was the only senior Tory present at the lunch at the Hyde Park Mandarin hotel.
“He is a brilliant political leader,” she said.
Mr Giuliani is due to meet Margaret Thatcher tonight at the same hotel before delivering his keynote speech on his manifesto for a 2008 Republican presidential victory.
http://britainandamerica.typepad.com/britain_and_america/2007/09/josh-sutton-rep.html
Rudy Guiliani
Back in 1984, Giuliani was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. During that time, allegations began to surface about physical and sexual abuse perpetrated on children at the day care center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Giuliani knew there were multiple children being abused. And yet he did not indict anyone. Not receiving justice from Giuliani, the parents pursued civil action. The government ended up paying 11 victims $2.7 million, but protected its image, thanks to Rudy.
Rudy Guiliani
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-trump-fired-comey.html
Lady Borwick, a Tory councillor in Kensington & Chelsea, spent eleven years as Director of the Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair and a further period of time assisting with the International Fine Art Fair in New York. What better experience could there be to prepare one to understand the problems of the East End?
http://eastlondonnews.co.uk/slumming-it-tory-lady-ventures-into-east-end/
Geoffrey Robert James “Jamie” Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick] (born 1955) is a British businessman, hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords. Chief Executive of Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC, known for the manufacture of the London Taxi, from 1987 to 2001 and then Chairman until 2003.
Edward Heath campaigning 1983 with Nicholas Soames
July 7 1972
Winners at No.10: Prime Minister Edward Heath is seen with the four winners of the Met
Monday Club
List of members of the Monday Club that I have found so far. Some may be from the Scottish Monday Club.
Alphabetical order:
- Julian AMERY
- Geoffrey BABER
- Wilfred BAKER
- Ronald BELL QC
- William BENYON
- John BERCOW
- John BIGGS-DAVISON
- Richard BODY
- Robert BOSCOWEN
- Peter BOTTOMLEY
- Rhodes BOYSON
- Bernard BRAINE
- Anna BRAMWELL
- Mr D R BRAMWELL (Vice-chairman)
- Paul BRISTOL (Chairman)
- Leon BRITTAN
- Peter BROCK
- Peter CAMPBELL
- John CARLISLE
- Charles CARNEGIE
- Dermot CHICHESTER
- Michael CLACK
- Alan CLARK
- David CLARK
- Patrick CORMACK
- Cdr Anthony COURTNEY
- William CRAIG
- Sir Horace CUTLER
- Roberto D’AUBUISSON
- Richard DEVONALD-LEWIS
- Piers DIXON
- Eleanor DODD
- Anthony FELL
- Sir Adrian FITZGERALD
- George GARDINER
- Robert GASGOYNE-CECIL 5th Marquess of Salisbury
- Robert GASGOYNE-CECIL 6th Marquess of Salisbury
- Sir James GOLDSMITH
- Victor GOODHEW
- Sheenagh GORDON
- Ian GRIEG
- Jonathan GUINNESS (Chairman/President)
- Cedric GUNNERY
- Harold GURDEN
- Harry HALL
- Rt Hon Archibald HAMILTON
- Neil HAMILTON
- Merlin HANBURY-TRACY Lord Sudeley
- Stephen HASTINGS
- John HEYDON
- Joseph HILEY
- Christopher HORNE (YCC)
- Gerald HOWARTH
- Andrew HUNTER
- Charles IRVING
- John JACKSON
- David JAMES
- Tim JANMAN
- George JELLICOE
- Tim KEIGWIN
- Frank KELLY (Secretary)
- George KENNEDY YOUNG
- Evelyn KING
- Jill KNIGHT
- Derek LAUD
- Gregory LAUDER-FROST
- Alan LENNOX-BOYD Lord Boyd of Merton
- Barry LENZ (Publications Editor)
- Anthony MACLAREN
- Patrick MAITLAND
- Stan MATTHEWS
- Mark MAYALL
- Sir Stephen MCADDEN
- Simon MCILWAIN
- Richard MILES
- Colin Campbell MITCHELL
- James MOLYNEAUX
- Victor MONTAGU
- Jasper MORE
- Rod MORRIS
- George MURRAY
- John PEYTON
- John R PINNIGER
- George POLE
- Martin PRITCHARD (Press officer)
- Harvey PROCTOR
- Sir Victor RAIKES (Chairman)
- Geoffrey RIPON
- Graham RHODES
- Juliet RHYS-WILLIAMS
- Andrew ROSINDELL
- Peter ROST
- John ROWE
- David ROWELL
- Sir Ronald RUSSELL
- Duncan SANDYS
- John SKEFFINGTON 14th Viscount Messereene
- A V R SMITH
- Ian SMITH (Honorary member)
- Michael Keith SMITH
- Harold SOREF
- Geoffrey STEWART-SMITH
- Greg STOCKWELL
- Sir John Heydon STOKES
- David STOREY
- Sam SWERLING
- John TAYLOR
- Robert TAYLOR
- Teddy TAYLOR (Vice-Chairman)
- Norman TEBBIT
- Richard TURNBALL
- Wavell WAKEFIELD
- Dennis WALKER (Membership Secretary)
- Peter WALKER
- Gen Sir Walter WALKER
- William WALKER
- Patrick WALL
- Harvey WARD
- Gerald WARNER
- Angela WATKINSON
- Graham WEBSTER-GARDINER
- Sir Roy WELENSKY
- Rear Adm Martin WEMYSS
- Roger WHITE
- John WHITE-MELVILLE-SKEFFINGTON 13th Viscount Messereene
- Sir Terry WIGGIN
- Vernon WILLEY
- Paul WILLIAMS (Director)
- Ann WINTERTON
- Nicholas WINTERTON
- John WODEHOUSE Earl of Kimberley
- Mark WOODNUTT
Addresses of the Monday Club:
- 51-53 Victoria Street
- 122 Newgate Street (1980)
- 4 Orlando Road, Clapham Common
- Opp Highams Park Station (1991)
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
I wonder why Benyon funded Proctor’s shirt shop?
Sir William Benyon with the Queen in 1995
He came to national politics as a member of the Monday Club and a supporter of Enoch Powell
MP criticises Met police chiefs over paedophile operation
AN MP has criticised three of Britain’s police chiefs over their handling of the Westminster paedophile scandal, questioning their “suitability” for office.
Sir Gerald Howarth lambasted Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe Metropolitan Police commissioner for ordering Operation Midland, which examined allegations against ex-Army chief Lord Bramall, former home secretary Leon Brittan and former Tory MP Harvey Proctor.
Was @cazjwheeler (Caroline Wheeler) not aware that @geraldhowarth is longtime close friend of Spanker Proctor?
He was a close lifelong friend of Harvey Proctor. In Proctor’s own words:
The Express could have told us that Howarth was GenSec for Society for Individual Freedom and Monday Club member!
https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/politics/742110/met-paedophile-operation-midland-mp-criticises-police-chiefs/amp …
Gerald Howarth MP of Paedogeddon!
Harvey Proctor & friends:
Imogen Skirving often entertained me in her private library…
Imogen also has a love affair with India. It is our mutual interest and desire. She has visited India many times and we have visited the same locations and restaurants in northern Goa… Terry and I once searched out Imogen’s daughter Louise on a beach there…
Imogen in 2003 with regular guest Henry Blofeld
Imogen Skirving – The owner of a country hotel, Langar Hall favoured by the elite, died after being hit by a car while holidaying on Menorca.
Former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband married wife Justine Thornton there in May 2011.
Actress Sarah Lancashire also chose the venue to wed TV executive Peter Salmon in August 2001.
Liz Cartwright, owner of Nottingham Public Relations firm Cartwright Communications, said: ‘I’ve never been to Langar Hall and not had an adventure.
‘You’d see people like Jools Holland and Paul Smith.
‘My husband and I went there once and Imogen paired us with Ken Bates, who then owned Chelsea, and his partner.’
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew added: ‘We will all miss Imogen dreadfully. Eccentric, funny lady who ran a brilliant business.’
IN 1987 CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB OWNED BY KEN BATES ASKED COLIN PETERS BUSINESS TO DEAL WITH HIS VAT AFFAIRS who in 1989 WAS CONVICTED ON CSA
Martin Walkerdine @mwalkerdine
LAING & PETERS NAPLES ENCOUNTER WITH 2 ITALIAN BOYS AGED 10 YEARS OLD ON HIRED BOAT WHILE WORKING AT FOREIGN OFFICE
Imogen Skirving
She served on Rushcliffe Borough Council for around 10 years
“I was in politics … Conservative of course, there’s no point being anything else around here,” she said.
Despite leaving the world of politics behind, she retains an admiration for her local Tory MP
“Ken Clarke, I love him, he’s the only person I rate in politics at all,” she said.
“I’m a big fan of Ken Clarke, he’s the best prime minister we never had.”
The service was led by the Rev Bronwen Gamble, Rector of the Wiverton Group of Parishes, and the address was given by Canon Alan Haydock, another personal friend.
Imogen Skirving, owner of Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire – She owned Langar Hall which was a favourite for celebrities and politicians
It was once the home of Thomas Bayley, Mrs Skirving’s great grandfather, a coal magnate and the Liberal MP for Chesterfield from 1892 to 1906.
Its isolated location next to a 12th Century church outside Nottingham, has helped make it popular with celebrities as a quiet and low-key retreat.
Keira Knightley, the actress, and Jack Dee and Michael McIntyre, the comedians, are among recent guests while Sir Cliff Richard and the designer Sir Paul Smith are regulars, as was the late Dame Barbara Cartland.
http://langarhall.blogspot.com/2011/03/ed-milibands-true-blue-wedding-hideaway.html
Alistair Laing after leaving the civil service then worked on an art history book with ex-Spy, academic, traitor and art historian, Anthony Blunt. Who co-incidentally is also on the Elm Tree Guesthouse list.
Alastair Laing, friend, understudy and co – author of Anthony Blunt and arrested alongside Colin Peters, interviewed.
In the inaugural Thaw Lecture (held on 5 May 2015), Alastair Laing, 2014-15 Thaw Senior Fellow at the Drawing Institute and longtime curator of paintings for the National Trust in the United Kingdom, investigates the audience for, and function of, the 10,000 drawings Rococo master François Boucher claimed to have produced.
www.themorgan.org/drawing-institute/videos/alastair-laing
John Wilton-Ely editors and contributors Karin Wolfe and David Marshall; Katrina Grant, Alastair Laing and Desmond Shawe-Taylor
www.bsr.ac.uk/roma-britannica-launch
about us
History
The BSR was founded in 1901 and received its first Royal Charter in June 1912. Following the International Exhibition in Rome of 1911 celebrating 50 years since Italian reunification, the site of the magnificent Edwin Lutyens-designed British Pavilion was granted in perpetuity to the British nation on condition that it be used exclusively as a British research centre for archaeology, history and the fine arts. In 1916, following significant adaptation by Lutyens, the BSR moved into our current home in via Gramsci, in Rome’s Valle Giulia.
Over the BSR’s first century our facilities for scholars have been substantially extended and refurbished, most recently through generous help from the Packard Humanities Institute and Lord and Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover’s Linbury Trust, amongst many other sponsors. In 2002 the purpose-built lecture theatre and gallery spaces were opened by our President, HRH Princess Alexandra
Governance
HM The Queen is Patron of the British School at Rome.
HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy, KG, GCVO, is President of the BSR.
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www.bsr.ac.uk/about/governance
Dame Alun Roberts
@ciabaudo
These used to rent a villa on Ischia during the hot summer months with the purpose of abusing street urchins in Naples.
… Alastair who apparently wrote the book ‘Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration’ with Blunt. Although cunningly enough the Wiki link shows a slightly different spelling of Laing. (An attempt to hide a link no doubt) The book is given as a source for a study on a baroque architect in NAPLES so ties in nicely. This is a deliciously obvious example of how they close documents from view for 76 years in order to hide from us the fact that we now have a link between Colin Peters and Blunt, both guests of Elm Guest House. The link being that they both knew Alastair Laing, one wrote a book with him and the other was arrested with with him.
Francesco Antonio Picchiatti (Ferrara, 1619–1694) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period active in Naples. He is also called Picchetto. He was son of Bartolommeo Picchiatti, who also served as an architect in Naples.
[[Anthony Blunt|Blunt, Anthony]]; Alastair Lange, Christopher Tadgell (1978). Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration. London: Elek. ISBN 0-06-430115-X.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Picchiatti
…further connections elsewhere to Colin Peters and Laing – What did Laing do in his year in the civil service? Where did Colin Peters study?
Could there even be a link between Peters pimp Haddon and Laing?
Was Curator of pictures at the National Trust. Also “After a year in the civil service, I applied to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London”. Studied under Anthony Blunt. Also co authored a book with him, from Oxford Uni.
ezine.codart.nl/17/issue/45/a…d=117#!/page/2
(looks like he had experience of handling some Rothschild collections too!…..……… )
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Pedophiles arrested in Britain eirv16n08, p42Pedophiles arrested in Britain eirv16n08, p43
Investigators working on the Colin Peters case had interrogated at east one senior member of the House of Lords, one vicar in West London and officials in Whitehall, “but the police did not have sufficient evidence or manpower to pursue their suspicions,” the Telegraph reported.So who was the paedophile senior member of the House of Lords in 1989 ?Is Colin Peters connected to Italian paedophile Alessandro Moncini ?Alessandro Moncini, a citizen and resident of Italy, appeals his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a) for mailing child pornography from Italy to an undercover officer in the United States. He raises three issues on appeal: (1) whether the district court lacked jurisdiction over him; (2) whether the government should have been required to prove that he knew he was violating American law, or, in the alternative, whether the district court should have recognized ignorance of the law as an affirmative defense; and (3) whether the district court erred in finding that he was not entrapped. We affirm.FACTSMoncini was contacted by Detective William H. Dworin of the Los Angeles Police Department after Dworin discovered Moncini’s name and address in a search of an American pornography collector. Dworin sent Moncini a letter containing a photograph of a nude girl, inquiring whether Moncini would be interested in trading child pornography. Dworin led Moncini to believe the American pornography collector was a mutual acquaintance.Moncini wrote back and asked for more pictures. Dworin complied, but Moncini did not reciprocate by sending similar pictures in return. Dworin eventually asked Moncini to send him some child pornography, offering to send Moncini more explicit material if Moncini would send him child pornography to prove his involvement “with the young ones.” Moncini responded by sending some pages torn from a commercially sold pornography magazine. He subsequently mailed additional pictures and a videotape. Moncini concedes that these pictures and videotape were child pornography of the type proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 2252.Moncini was arrested when he arrived in New York in early 1988. He was tried in the Central District of California, which includes Valencia, the place to which the photos were sent. His motion to dismiss the indictment for lack of jurisdiction was denied on the ground that the mailings were continuing offenses which continued to take place as Moncini’s letters traveled from Italy to California, giving the court territorial jurisdiction. Alternately, the court found that extraterritorial jurisdiction would be proper.Moncini waived jury trial. His principal defense was ignorance of the law. The district court received uncontroverted evidence in the form of an affidavit by a former member of the Italian bar that the mailing of child pornography is legal in Italy so long as it is not for commercial purposes or purposes of public display. Moncini asserts that he was unaware that his mailing of child pornography was a crime in the United States. The court convicted him and sentenced him to a year-and-a-day custodial sentence. He has completed his sentence and is now at liberty.law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/882/401/207502/MP Harvey Proctor’s grace-and-favour home in Belvoir Castle had been raided by police investigating historic allegations of child abuse.
Vicount Ian Kerr CGC @IanKerr
How many computers did Harvey ‘Credible and True’ Proctor have ?
Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth …
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Harmsworth with the Queen, Cameron and Prince Phillip
John Goldup was the second most senior figure in #Islington Council’s children’s dept. during 80s & early 90s
While John Goldup was in post at #Islington, files disappeared on paedophile care home supervisor Nick Rabet
#Islington supervisor Nick Rabet went on to abuse children in Sussex kids centre & abused 300 children in Thailand
When Goldup was in charge 4 #Islington staff who raised concerns about paedophiles were sacked, demoted & threatened
Dear Office for Standards in Education,
Will you please make available details of all communications between yourself and ‘Community Care’ / ‘CareSpace’ in relation to the ‘Carespace’ thread of 23 February 2012 entitled ‘What do you think of children’s services inspection?
In particular will you please refer directly to any issues around the postings by a contributor ‘Rupert M’ and ‘Boxerdog’ which ‘Community Care’ advise me were removed as a result of direct allegations of them being libellous towardsJohn Goldup, deputy Head of OFSTED.
Will you please confirm that this same John Goldup is the same person who was a senior social work manager within Islington at the time of the Islington child sexual abuse scandal of the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Yours faithfully,
Philip J Measures
Councillor Marks also claimed children interviewed by the Standard were paid.
We reply: These allegations are absolutely untrue
2009
Mail on Sunday, 4th October 2009
THE Government’s childcare watchdog has been heavily criticised after appointing to a senior post an official embroiled in a notorious paedophile scandal.
Ofsted has named John Goldup as its social care director – a job which gives him effective control of the protection of youngsters in care homes and nurseries across the UK.
At the time of his appointment, Mr Goldup said: I am absolutely convinced that effective inspection and regulation are the key to driving up improvement.
But during the Eighties and early Nineties, Mr Goldup was the second most senior figure in the children’s department at Islington Council in North London.
The council was savaged in a series of official reports after whistleblowers revealed how a child sex ring had operated throughout the borough’s care homes for a number of years.
An independent inquiry headed by Ian White – then director of social services in Oxfordshire – found that the council was in a deplorable state.
The report added: Line managers should have visited children’s homes, should have taken necessary action, should have spoken to children and … should have responded to allegations as serious as the ones made and now investigated.
Mr Goldup had left his post by the middle of 1994 and has spent the past 15 years with another London borough, most recently in charge of services for the elderly and disabled.
In 1992, the council was asked by police investigating the abuse allegations for paperwork relating to Nick Rabet, who helped run one of the homes. He was later exposed as a key organiser of the sex ring. Despite the existence of a number of documents raising concerns about him, in particular his unhealthy relationship with a 13-year-old boy, Rabet’s file had mysteriously disappeared.
At the same time, four staff who had raised concerns about the 58-year-old and other suspected paedophiles working in Islington’s homes were sacked, demoted or threatened.
Rabet killed himself in Thailand three years ago while awaiting trial there for child abuse. He was charged with molesting 30 underage boys and was believed to have abused up to 300 more.
Detective Chief Superintendent Kevin Moore, of Sussex Police, which investigated Rabet, said Islington actively thwarted attempts in the early Nineties to bring Rabet and his cohorts to justice.
He said: If we’d had the usual co-operation that you expect and deserve from other agencies, it’s a very strong likelihood we would have got a conviction.
Clearly, if you don’t get that co-operation – and in this case we didn’t – you cannot get a case to put before the court, and justice was denied.
We are all in a position of trust and of trusting each other to do what’s right, but in this case that trust was abused.
When it was founded, Ofsted was responsible largely for school inspections. But in 2007, its remit was significantly extended to cover children’s social care and support services.
A spokesman for Ofsted said: John Goldup has a long and distinguished track record in delivering care services, most recently leading Tower Hamlets to an outstanding rating for its adult services for five years in a row.
There is nothing to question John Goldup’s integrity or his ability to fully and professionally carry out his role at Ofsted, a role he was appointed to following a fully independent and robust recruitment process.
The panel were fully aware of every aspect of his employment history throughout this process.
While allegations relating to Islington are ultimately a matter for the council, we are confident there is nothing to support suggestions that he acted, then or at any other time, in anything other than a professional manner.
Ofsted has full confidence in John in his vital new role as director of social care development.
Nov 24, 2009
‘I want to change perceptions of Ofsted’ – John Goldup
Rifts are deepening with the Association for Directors of Children’s Services and local authorities over unannounced inspections and the criteria used to mark safeguarding services as inadequate. Relations with the ADCS fell to an all-time low in October with numerous allegations that Ofsted’s inspection regime was actually working to undermine public confidence in children’s services.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2009/11/24/i-want-to-change-perceptions-of-ofsted-john-goldup/
2013
Ofsted social care chief John Goldup to quit with Debbie Jones taking over
05 March 2013
Ofsted’s deputy chief inspector and director of social care John Goldup is to leave the inspectorate by “mutual agreement” this month and will be replaced by the current president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, CYP Now can exclusively reveal.
CYP Now has learned that ADCS president Debbie Jones, who is director of children’s services in Lambeth, will take on the role from September.
Only last month Ofsted announced that Jones would join as London regional director for education, learning and skills.
Goldup joined Ofsted in September 2009 as director of social care development, before being appointed deputy chief inspector in January 2012.
An Ofsted spokeswoman confirmed that Goldup will leave “by mutual agreement” at the end of March 2013.
“In his three and a half years with Ofsted, John has reformed social care regulation and inspection, and has firmly established Ofsted as a powerful force for improvement in social care services for children,” the inspectorate said in a statement.
“Having led a step change in this area of Ofsted’s work, John has concluded that it is time to take his career in a different direction.
“He has agreed with the Ofsted board that this is the right moment to leave the organisation, and the board and his colleagues wish him every success as he moves on to face new and different challenges.
“Debbie Jones will take over on the national lead for social care when she joins Ofsted as regional director, London, on 1 September 2013. In the interim Sally Rowe will be acting national director, social care, as well as regional director for the north west.”
2015
John Goldup still failing at his job to protect children…
10 Feb 2015
Rotherham inspectors ‘did not have the focus’
A former senior official at children’s care watchdog Ofsted has apologised for the organisation’s failure to uncover widespread sexual exploitation in Rotherham.
John Goldup, who joined Ofsted as director of social care in 2009 and was appointed deputy chief inspector in 2012, said that the watchdog did not focus as it should have done on the dangers of child sex exploitation in inspections in the South Yorkshire town.
Rotherham Council was last week taken under Government control and its entire political leadership resigned after the Casey Report’s withering indictment of its failure to tackle monumental levels of child sexual exploitation.
Louise Casey’s report came after an inquiry by Alexis Jay last year found that more than 1,400 children had been subjected to rape, violence and trafficking by gangs of mainly Asian men over a 16-year period.
Giving evidence to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee, Mr Goldup was asked whether he wanted to apologise to children in Rotherham.
The former deputy chief inspector stressed that he could not speak on behalf of Ofsted, but told MPs: “Yes I do. I agree entirely with what (Ofsted head) Sir Michael Wilshaw said to the Education Select Committee two weeks ago, that we didn’t get it right with child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. He apologised for that and I apologise for that.
“The inspection frameworks at the time didn’t have the focus on child sexual exploitation that they would and should have had if we had known and understood then what we know and understand now.
“It is clear from reading back over the inspection reports that we didn’t appreciate the scale of the child sexual exploitation issue in Rotherham and we didn’t scrutinise sufficiently the effectiveness with which it was being responded to.”
New head, John Goldup, for board tasked with turning around ‘inadequate’ children’s services in Bucks
An expert has been drafted in to head up a team tasked with turning around ‘inadequate’ children’s services in Buckinghamshire.
The government has appointed former deputy chief inspector John Goldup has been appointed chair of Bucks Children’s Improvement Board.
It comes after a series of recommendations made by Government consultants, who examined the county council’s plans for improvement following Ofsted’s ‘inadequate’ rating of its Children’s social care services last August.
Mr Goldup, who also held the post of National Director of Social Care at Ofsted, was formally appointed by the Secretary of State for Education, will chair his first meeting on the independent body on Thursday.
Chief Executive Chris Williams who previously chaired the board, has welcomed his appointment.
He said: “A new independent chair will ensure both complete transparency and an extra dimension of challenge to the work of the Improvement Board.
“We have robust plans in place to improve services as quickly as we can and with John’s chairmanship I know we can deliver on our aspirations.
“Stepping aside from chairing the Board will allow me to fully concentrate on supporting my managers to drive the Improvement Plan at pace.”
Last month, Children’s services in the county were judged ‘inadequate’ by government inspectors in a national study – placing care provisions in Buckinghamshire alongside scandal-hit Rotherham.
Buckinghamshire County Council was one of seven local authorities in Britain to be named as inadequate by Ofsted, after failings were first identified last August.
Hours after the announcement, the council’s chief executive Chris Williams revealed at a County Hall meeting that independent advisors had recommended he should step down from his role as chairman of the authority’s improvement board.
The report judged Bucks as inadequate alongside the councils in Birmingham, Coventry, Knowsley, Manchester, Slough and Rotherham.
25 May 2017
In the third of our special series on Islington’s notorious kids’ homes, Emma Youle meets survivors – and hears how their lives were torn apart by the very institutions that should have protected them
Calling for a full police-led inquiry, Imogen said: “Those people who were running children’s homes, they need to be accountable. The whole structure has to change. It’s like the Church – it’s no good going after individual priests. You need to go after the establishment that harboured these people.”
NEXT WEEK: In the final part of this series, a care worker and survivors who lived at Gisburne House home speak out – and will Jeremy Corbyn support demands for a police-led inquiry?
Cassandra Cogno @CassandraCogno:
Gisburne House was in Watford @Observer_Owl used by Islington council to send children out of borough – several abusers amongst staff
Importantly @guyadams reported Gisburne House cater Michael Taylor revealed as PIE member in his 2000 trial & conviction
Pre formalisation of PIE in Islington there was the Finsbury Park Man/Boy Free Love commune-well documented in Anarchy magazine at the time
https://twitter.com/CassandraCogno/status/891368045490450432
Ex Anglican Franciscan Michael Taylor, PIE member, abuser of boys at GisburneHouse,
#Islington & #Bersham Hall, #Clwyd
http://tna.europarchive.org/20040216040105/http://www.doh.gov.uk/lostincare/20115.htm …
So this is where it comes full circle back to Peter Righton – also an Anglican Franciscan for a while – & the @c_of_e monastic movement(s)
so favoured by Bishop Peter Ball he simply had to set up his own entire movement, just like Father Trevor Huddlestone’s alma mater the college & community of the Resurrection, Mirfield
Peter Righton’s time in retreat as an Anglican Franciscan is also central to the involvement of the Southbank Trio & Albany Trust
The Department of Health and then-Health-Secretary Virginia Bottomley were told in 1993 about an influential network involving Righton. but appear to have done nothing. Nor does there appear to have been much action following the disturbing Inside Story documentary on Righton broadcast the following year, with various testimonies of Righton’s victims .
After Righton was convicted, receiving a £900 fine, in September 1992, he was able to relocate on the estate of Lord Henniker in 1993, and continue to have contact with children in care, many of who (not least from Islington) were regularly brought to the estate (Stewart Payne and Eileen Fairweather, ‘Country house hideaway of disgraced care chief’, Evening Standard, May 6th, 1993).
https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/peter-righton-his-activities-up-until-the-early-1980s/
Dr Richard Barker@swrb1
Peter Righton has since died. His partner, Richard Alston, who lived with him at Thornham Magna, has since been convicted and imprisoned for sexual offences against children.
This Year 35 years ago in 1983 Islington BC gave a grant of £3,233 to the Islington Suffolk Project which a decade later in 1993 gave haven to Peter Righton after his conviction https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/country-house-hideaway-of-disgraced-care-chief-6-5-93/ …
Why did Peter Righton hide out in Thornham Magna @ Islington Suffolk Project?
Cassandra Cogno @CassandraCogno
If Lord Henniker was such a philanthropist why was he taking money off islingtonBC for Islington Suffolk Project? Also as @ian_pace noted Richard Alston thanks Islington resident & PIE lobbyist Micky Burbidge in the foreword of Sir Colin Davis bio
The horrors of Gisburne House
https://lizdavies.net/2017/07/28/the-horrors-of-gisburne-house/
I’M NO THREAT TO KIDS ANY MORE
February 18, 2000, Friday, The Mirror, Paul Byrne
A CONVICTED sex offender named by the inquiry told The Mirror last night he is no longer a threat to children.
Michael Taylor said: “I don’t work with children and I have no intention of doing anything like that.” In an emotional interview he added: “I am not working with children and I have not been for many years.”
Taylor, 58 – No2 in charge at Bersham Hall home in Wrexham, Clwyd – was convicted by the town’s magistrates in 1980 of two indecent assaults and given two years’ probation. In 1993 he was cautioned for six more indecent assaults.
He is one of 28 “missing” people named in the report as potential dangers to young people.
The list was circulated to agencies across the UK amid fears that many could still be working with children.
But Taylor, a cabbie in Nantwich, Cheshire, till he retired after a heart attack last month, said he has lived openly at the same house for 20 years.
He had no idea what his neighbours’ reaction would be to revelation of his sex crimes. “I just want to be left alone.”
https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/im-no-threat-to-kids-any-more-18-2-2000/
July 2000
A social worker who abused two boys at an Islington Council children’s home in the 1970s was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment earlier this week.
Michael Taylor pleaded guilty at London’s Snaresbrook crown court to seven counts of indecent assault at Gisburne House.
When he left Gisburne House he became deputy superintendent of Bersham Hall children’s home in North Wales where he repeatedly assaulted two 11-year-old boys in his care.
Taylor was arrested after the people he abused, now adults, went to the police. He was previously convicted of two indecent assaults in 1980. His name will be added to the sex offenders’ register.
https://theukdatabase.com/2012/03/20/michael-taylor-islingtonbersham-hallgisburne-house/
Diplomat jailed over hoard of child porn
6 September 1996
Robert Coghlan, a diplomat, was jailed for three years yesterday for smuggling a hoard of “filthy” child pornography into Britain. The divorced father of two, the first British envoy to be convicted of such an offence, spent thousands of pounds in Japanese sex-shops.
Coghlan, 54, was building up his illicit video collection when he helped the Princess of Wales around Tokyo last year. He ended up with the biggest consignment of paedophile material seized by Customs recently – sacks of tapes depicting boys as young as 11 being abused.
Passing sentence at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Gerald Butler QC told the former first secretary: “There is no evidence … that you used or intended to use this obscene material for any purpose other than for your own sexual gratification but a custodial sentence is inevitable. I am satisfied beyond doubt that you always knew that large numbers of these video cassettes involved the exploitation, abuse and degradation of children. If it were not for men such as you to provide a market for this filth, there would be no incentive for others to manufacture and sell them for their own profit.”
Coghlan, of Danbury Street, Islington, north London, was found guilty on Thursday of one charge of smuggling 109 obscene videos into Britain last March. The court heard he worked four and a half years in Tokyo. When told he was being transferred to Madrid, he “desperately” tried to ensure his “precious” films arrived safely.
He hoped his status and a false last-minute declaration that he had no prohibitive goods among his shipped belongings would be enough. But Customs men searched some of his luggage and found the tapes. Coghlan’s defence was that as he had always believed his belongings would be shipped directly to Spain, he could never have had any intention of smuggling them into Britain.
When he found they were coming here, he had “no option” but to lie on a Customs clearance form.
Denying he was a paedophile, he insisted he ended up with the videos only because he could not properly translate the labels. Coghlan said that he had never been certain what he was buying, an assertion rejected by the judge.
A government spokesman said Coghlan’s case was being examined under the Foreign Office’s disciplinary procedure. A Foreign Office spokesman refused to say whether Coghlan’s dismissal was a foregone conclusion.
However, another source said it was “inconceivable” that the envoy would be kept on.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/diplomat-jailed-over-hoard-of-child-porn-1362107.html
HRH Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
I stumbled across this. (Anthony) Ashley is the man. Ever heard of it/know area of
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY:
- 10 September 1984
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY: Dr Judy Densen Gerber of the US
10.9.84 organisation PACT – “Protect All Children Today” (set up
TX to warn parents of the dangers of child abuse) is intvwd
about the British connection through which pornographic
literature is thought to pass from Europe to the US.
Report on cases of sexual abuse of children in the USA, including those involving teachers at the McMartin Pre-school in LA, and babysitters in Florida….
couple charged in Minnesota, babysitting couple charged in Miami, intvw George Cole (convicted rapist) in Maryland, intvw Dr Judy Densen Gerber, parcels in customs at Chicago.
Accommodation address in CAS ex ENG(ITN) N London, intvw Anthony Ashley (House owner’s son)
Intvw Dr Gerber on what CAS ex STUDIO(ITN) British can do to stem flow of literature
CMS DR GERBER intvw SOF:
“We look to Britain — hurting our children”
CS Classified ads for sex with young children
from magazine TILT DOWN
TS Order form offering porn pictures of young
girls
CS London address on order form
CMS DR GERBER intvw SOF:
“That material is — of English children”
VIDEO ex ENG(Skehan)/ABC/CNN
Tx 10.9.84/C4N
ARCHIVE TAPE & CASSETTE 23820 84/C4N/EE10007
b) (Sadler)
ENGLAND LMS Residential road and houses PAN R-L
N London CS Small notices (hand written) on door
BV Postman with bag of mail on shoulder down
road
BV Postman delivering to the house (where porn
literature sent from various countries)
LBV Sadler at front door of the house as woman
heard shouting at him
BV Police officer at front door of the house, door
opened, he goes in
MS Sadler talking to Anthony Ashley inside the house
CMS ANTHONY ASHLEY (House owner’s son) intvw SOF:
“It shocked me — nothing we can do”
http://N.London ? http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITN/1984/09/10/AS100984008/?s=abduction …
Martin Walkerdine @mwalkerdine
Anthony Ashley of 15 Clifton Gardens, London in 1984 linked to FBI operation
Likely address for Anthony Ashley … is 15, Clifton Gardens, London, London, N15 6AP
Properly left that address sometime in 2003 and lived their before 1984
Troy @snowfaked:
“STUDIO for hire (£1 hour) “Abrahams”. 15 Clifton Gardens. London N15. Tel. 01-800 0373 (24 hours)” 1974
Licensed ACM address. Established 1968. “M. Abrahams 15 Clifton Gardens”
ACM-Address Unlimited Mail. £1 mth, discounts…M. Abrahams, 15 Clifton Gardens, London N 15. 01-800 0373
Same “M Abrahams” 1984
They were using that same address under name “M. Abrahams” “Studio for hire” 1974, also there 1985
Unless that’s a contact number for an adult magazine subscription https://twitter.com/snowfaked/status/891408049461743616 …
15 Clifton Gardens appears to have been a brothel in 1971https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=day+%22Ambassadors+15+Clifton+Gardens%2C+London+N15.+01-8000373+INTERESTING+ADULT+booklist+for%22 …
He was there in 1966 “Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies” https://books.google.com/books?id=AkdoAAAAMAAJ&q=ashley+%2215+clifton+gardens%22&dq=ashley+%2215+clifton+gardens%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQnbr-sq_VAhVBzz4KHaECC1gQ6AEIJjAA …
Guardian Feb 3 1972 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/259713121/ …
Guardian May 18 1976: James Holbin, 15 Clifton Gardens. Letter opposing coporal punishmenthttps://www.newspapers.com/newspage/259941441/ …
Follow me on this: James Holbin of 15 Clifton Gardens moved to 34 Upton Lane, Forest Gate in 1977 (1) corporal pun.https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/259536189/ …
William Edwards of 34 Upton Lane wrote a pro-pornography letter in 1978 (2) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/259530481/ …
Between Feb and May 1981, 34 Upton Lane, London advertised for adult magazine and sex shops. (3) G.N. organization https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/260209419/ …
34 Upton Lane: David Sullivan of Roldvale Ltd.- sex shops, magazine and adult films like Emmanuelle in Soho (4) 1981https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/260220696/ …
Roldvale Ltd. mentioned in this book on London sex shopshttps://books.google.com/books?id=xzQQAQAAMAAJ&q=%2234+upton+lane%22&dq=%2234+upton+lane%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVvo7g0K_VAhXJFT4KHQ8IC_0Q6AEINDAD …
Roldvale Ltd also had some association with a racehorse called ‘Mr Playbirds’ of all things during 1970s & others during the 1980s.
David Sullivan (born 5 February 1949)[3] is a Welsh businessman and former pornographer. He graduated in Economics from Queen Mary College, University of London. From 1986 to 2007, he owned the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport which he sold for £40 million.[4] In April 2016, Sullivan was named by The Sunday Times as Britain’s 117th equal richest man, with assets valued at £1bn.[1] He is the Joint-Chairman and largest single shareholder of Premier League football team West Ham United F.C. He was previously Joint-Chairman of Birmingham City F.C. Sullivan has made significant charitable donations in recent years.[5]
Sullivan is a philanthropist and has been a patron of Prostate Cancer UK for over 15 years. He is also an active supporter of the Teenage Cancer Trust along with several other charities nationwide. Sullivan celebrated West Ham’s promotion to the Premier League in May 2012 by donating a five figure sum to a charity for children with autism.[22]
Troy @snowfaked
This looks like a code letter if I’ve ever seen one. Prof RT Green 15 Clifton Gardens, Open Uni, Tom Lavery 1979
OH MY! Who was Chairman of the ISLINGTON COMMITTEE FOR COMMUNITY RELATIONS in 1969. 15 Clifton Gardens https://books.google.com/books?id=dvIqAAAAMAAJ&dq=%2215+clifton+gardens%22+send&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%2215+clifton+gardens%22 …
R. T. Green (Greenel) 15 Clifton Gardens 1973 https://books.google.com/books?id=iyxaAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Specializes+in+psychological%22+%22Principals%3A+R.+T.+Greenel%2C+Chairman%3B+J.+D.+Wood%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Greenel …
Playthinx mathematical children’s game by Motivation Analysis Ltd, Prof. R. T. Green of 15 Clifton Gardens, London http://www.trademarkia.com/playthinx-73124018.html …
Revealed: Police were ‘given name of paedophile priest Father Eugene as early as 1992’
08 June 2017
Eugene Fitzpatrick
The name of a paedophile priest who raped and assaulted boys for decades before being jailed last month was handed to police in 1992
“Father Eugene” was identified in information about suspected child abuse given to former Islington social worker and whistleblower Liz Davies, who passed it on to police.
Dr Davies contacted the Gazette after reading our story last week about Father Eugene Fitzpatrick, who was jailed for 22 years for carrying out horrific abuse at Our Lady and Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Balls Pond Road and elsewhere in Islington.
It follows an investigation by the Gazette that revealed new evidence about child abuse in the borough in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.
Dr Davies and former Evening Standard journalist Eileen Fairweather, who blew the lid on the borough’s child abuse scandal in 1992, have both confirmed the name “Father Eugene” was passed to Scotland Yard.
Liz said: “I had left employment with Islington Council when I received information from other social workers about allegations of abuse of children which included the name of a ‘Father Eugene’. There was no surname at that time and I did not know who he was.
“I reported this to Supt Mike Hames in person who was head of the obscene publications squad at the time. I understand he sent this information to the Islington police. The Det Insp at the time was Sue Akers.”
Eileen added: “His name was included in information about people preying on kids in care and it was passed to police. Liz and others, and the Evening Standard, were consistently asking the police to investigate it.”
Scotland Yard denied it had been aware of Fitzpatrick earlier than 2007.
“Police became aware of the allegations initially in 2007 but were unable to substantiate them with the victim and so could not proceed further,” said a spokesman.
“The allegations again were brought to police attention in October 2014 and an investigation launched.”
Fitzpatrick’s first known attack was on the first boy, who was aged under eight, when the pervert was 17.
It happened in Tufnell Park in 1965.
There were a further 10 counts of sexual assaults on the same boy until 1973, by which time he was training to be a priest.
He raped the second boy on multiple occasions between 1986 and 1992.
Father Eugene Fitzpatrick with Maddie Noonan on her wedding day.
Maddie Noonan, 59, who used to live near Our Lady and Saint Joseph Church, told the Hackney Gazette of her shock at the actions of the priest she considered a family friend, and who conducted her wedding.
“He was the local parish priest. We lived in Balls Pond Road and moved to Mildmay Park.
“He married me and he was a very close friend of my grandmother. He was always in our house, we loved him.”
Maddie, who now lives in Ireland, added: “I was very close to him as an adult.
Father Eugene Fitzpatrick worked at a Catholic Church in Hackney
31 May 2017
Father Eugene Fitzpatrick, 68, was found guilty of rape and assault charges at Blackfriars Crown Court on 25 May 2017 and has been jailed for 22 years.
Fitzpatrick raped and assaulted one boy while working at Our Lady and Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Balls Pond Road. He also indecently assaulted another boy throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
Fitzpatrick was found guilty of 11 counts of indecent assault and indecency with a child relating to the first victim, for which he received a total of five years.
Detective Constables Lorraine Simpson and Klementina Balint, the investigating officers, said:
“Eugene Fitzpatrick is a predatory sex offender who abused his position of trust, preying on vulnerable youngsters and subjecting them to horrific sexual abuse over a period of years.
“In addition to the two known victims in this case, I believe that there may be additional survivors of Fitzpatrick’s actions who continue to suffer in silence. I urge anyone who has been abused by Eugene Fitzpatrick to contact police without delay.
“Specially trained officers will support victims throughout the investigative process and there are a number of additional support pathways that we are able to signpost.”
Anyone who thinks they are a victim of Eugene Fitzpatrick can contact the Met’s Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command by dialling 101.
Alison Millar, abuse lawyer at Leigh Day, said:
“The offences of which Father Eugene has been convicted are horrific and represent the gravest breach of trust. The survivors of this appalling abuse are to be commended for their courage in coming forward and giving evidence.
“This case shows that it is still possible to secure convictions many years after the offending took place and that investigation of non-recent child abuse offences should remain a police priority.
“We understand that The Islington Survivors’ Network (ISN), had information about a Father Eugene going back to the 1990s and have contacted the police about this.
“Clearly, this requires thorough investigation: were possible opportunities missed to prosecute Father Eugene sooner?
“We strongly support the call made by ISN for an independent police-led investigation working towards the prosecutions of those who perpetrated or facilitated institutional or organised child abuse in Islington and the surrounding area, and who have still not been brought to justice.”
‘Predatory’ paedophile priest jailed for 22 years
Father Eugene Fitzpatrick, 68, was sentenced to 22 years behind bars and placed on the sex offenders register for life after being found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault, four counts of indecency with a child, and two counts of buggery, all committed between the 1960s and 1990s.
Fitzpatrick, of Raymond Lane, Canterbury, was parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Harpenden from 1995 until 2001
Detectives are appealing for additional victims to come forward after Fitzpatrick was sentenced following a trial at Blackfriars Crown Court last month.
“In addition to the two known victims in this case, we believe that there may be additional survivors of Fitzpatrick’s actions who continue to suffer in silence. I urge anyone who has been abused by Eugene Fitzpatrick to contact police without delay.
The indecent assault and indecency offences were committed against one victim in the Islington area. The buggery offences were committed against a second victim at Our Lady St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hackney.
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/15342350._Predatory__paedophile_priest_jailed_for_22_years/
My little list begins with three odious people who were friends and contemporaries at York University – Harvey Proctor, Michael Brown and Christine Holman, now Christine Hamilton. I don’t know what was going on at York at the time, but the York University Conservative Association spawned some deeply unpleasant people.
Harvey Proctor is legendary. He was Chair of the York University Conservative Association between 1967-69, then the Assistant Director (1969-71) and a member of the executive council (1983-87) of the hard right Monday Club. He was the Tory MP for Basildon (1979-83) and then for Billericay (1983-87). In the early 80s some mind-boggling rumours circulated about Harvey Proctor, rumours so florid that I didn’t believe them. He was alleged to be taking part in extreme S&M activities with under-aged boys. ‘Private Eye’ ran a few articles about him – he was featured in their ‘The New Boys’ column and I expected him to sue them. However he didn’t. Proctor became a source of fascination to the ‘Eye’ and sometime later they published allegations that a building that he owned was housing members of the League of St George (a far-right group) and then allegations that someone had been walking past his London flat, heard guttural noises coming from within and observed bloody handprints on the outside of the building. Interestingly, no-one from the Tories denied these stories, they just ignored them. The rumours continued to circulate and eventually some Tories started expressing the opinion that Proctor was a serious embarrassment and that they’d rather he stood down.
In 1986 ‘The People’ newspaper claimed that Proctor was in same sex relationships with males and then the shit really hit the fan – in 1987 Proctor was found guilty of gross indecency and fined after participating in spanking sessions in which young male prostitutes were tied up. The prostitutes involved were not ‘children’, but they were under the legal age of consent for gay sex between men, which at the time was 21. Proctor and others who were charged under similar circumstances now angrily point out that they were targeted for being gay and that the men that they were having sex with would these days be over the age of consent. I take their point about the relevant changes in the law – but whereas some of these men were charged for offences involving young men between the ages of 16 and 21, there were constant allegations that some of them had sometimes been sexually involved with boys under the age of 16. Furthermore these rent boys had frequently been trafficked into prostitution at the age of 16-17 after leaving children’s homes, where they had been ‘groomed’ by years of sexual abuse – often accompanied by violence if they resisted. This was certainly the pattern regarding the kids from north Wales children’s homes – and John Allen, the owner of the Bryn Alyn Community, was known to own brothels in London and Brighton where children formerly in his care were sent after they left the children’s homes. The boys pimped by Allen also alleged that he was involved with a major crime ring dealing in child porn and drugs. The defence used by Proctor et al never involves answering any difficult questions about where those rent boys had come from and why they were so willing to have sex with rather deranged sometimes elderly MPs whom they could not have found attractive in any way.
Proctor resigned his seat after his conviction and Theresa Gorman succeeded him. In 1988 Proctor established a shop in Richmond-Upon-Thames selling shirts, ties and waistcoats, after receiving a grant from the Gov’ts Enterprise Allowance Scheme. Proctor had considerable help establishing this business. The Tory Whip Tristan Garel-Jones organised the raising of the sum of £75,000 and over the following years, as Proctor’s shop repeatedly encountered financial difficulties, Tory MPs and former Tory MPs came to the rescue. Some of the people who were financially involved with Proctor’s business were Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine, David Heathcote-Amory, Mark Lennox-Boyd, Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Richard Shephard, David Evans, Neil Hamilton, Christine Hamilton, Tim Yeo, Michael Brown, David Ashby, Sir Neil Thorne, William Benyon and Sir Charles Morrison. Charles Morrison was the older brother of Sir Peter Morrison whom it is now admitted was molesting boys in their mid-teens and younger, including boys resident in children’s homes in north Wales. Heseltine and Archer invested more than £100,000 in Proctor’s shop.
There was a punch-up in the shop in 1992. Two young men entered and asked Proctor ‘have you any ties for tying up rent boys before you spank them?’ Proctor tried to get them out of the shop and a fight broke out. Incredibly enough Neil and Christine Hamilton were in the shop at the time and Hamilton came to Proctor’s assistance when the young men assaulted Proctor. Proctor was punched in the face and had his little finger broken and Neil Hamilton ended up with a broken nose. The two men were charged and convicted.
In spite of the enormous helping hand that Proctor received from well-wishing Tories, his business eventually went bust. In 2003 Proctor was appointed the Private Secretary to the 11th Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. He entered obscurity but of course hit the media again in 2015 when he was named as a suspect in the Operation Midland investigation into child abuse. Proctor held a press conference at which he angrily denied all allegations made against him – which included allegations that he had sexually tortured boys, attempted to castrate one of them and that a boy was murdered. The allegations against Proctor were tied up with allegations that Ted Heath abused boys – Proctor maintained that he hated Ted Heath so much that he wouldn’t have shared a cup of tea with him, let alone have attended an orgy in his company.
The Operation Midland investigation was halted after the publication of Sir Richard Henriques’ highly critical report into the way that the police had conducted the investigation. In Nov 2016 the Commissioner of the Met, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, apologised to Proctor. Proctor began legal action against the Metropolitan Police in Feb 2017. Sir Richard Henriques was the judge who dismissed the appeal of Jeremy Bamber in 2002. Jeremy Bamber is serving a life sentence for the murder of three members of his family – there has been mounting concern for years that his case is a serious miscarriage of justice. Bamber was convicted substantially as a result of the evidence given by a Top Doctor from St Andrew’s Hospital Northampton, an institution with a history of patient neglect and abuse – the Top Doctor seems to have been untruthful when giving evidence (see post ‘Family Annihilation’).
Although I too found it difficult to believe that Proctor would have done anything at all with Ted Health including sexually abusing boys, I note that one of the investors in Proctor’s business, Sir Charles Morrison, had been a big fan of Heath’s. Charles Morrison was the MP for Devizes (1964-92) and died in 2005. His obituary in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ makes interesting reading. It contrasts the political differences between Charles and his brother Peter – Charles being a ‘die hard Heathite rebel’ and Peter being an aide to Thatcher. The Morrisons’ had a sister – Dame Mary Morrison, who was Woman of the Bed Chamber to the Queen for over 50 years. Charles Morrison’s wife was related by marriage to Ian Fleming, who wrote an article entitled ‘To Westminster With Love’, the opening words being ‘Charles Morrison – Licensed To Kill’. Well somebody certainly was, witnesses to the activities of Peter Morrison and his associates were constantly found dead.
Michael Brown, one of Proctor’s friends at York, was a part time research assistant to Michael Marshall between 1975-76 and between 1976-79 worked for Nicholas Winterton MP. In 1979 Brown was elected as a Tory MP himself and remained as one until May 1994. Brown was a member of the Monday Club and the Eldon League. He was a founder member of the No Turning Back group, which included Peter Lilley, Neil Hamilton and Michael Portillo. Brown and Portillo were extremely good friends in the early 80s, so much so that they went on holidays together, along with someone else close to them, Derek Laud, who was Brown’s research assistant for a considerable period of time.
Brown was a supporter of the apartheid regime in South Africa and in Feb 1988 visited South Africa with Neil Hamilton – their trip was funded by the South African Authorities.
Brown was PPS to Douglas Hogg, between 1989-90 when Hogg was at the DTI and then between 1990-92 when Hogg was at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Between 1992-93 Brown was PPS to Patrick Mayhew, Secretary of State for N Ireland. Mayhew was a barrister, who when he was younger had acted as Counsel for the GMC – the GMC who famously allowed Dr Morris Fraser, a child psychiatrist who was a paedophile, to continue practising in the 70s. But then they allowed Dafydd to practice and he was facilitating a paedophile ring. In 1993 Brown became an assistant Gov’t Whip.
Brown was involved with the Cash for Questions scandal, along with Neil Hamilton, Sir Michael Grylls and Sir Peter Morrison. Brown accepted money to lobby on behalf of U.S. Tobacco without declaring it and also failed to declare an interest in the notoriously carcinogenic Skoal Bandits.
Michael Brown resigned as an MP in 1994 after the ‘News of the World’ published photos of him on holiday in Barbados with a gay man who was under the age of consent.
Brown was in the wilderness for a short while but bounced back in April 1998 after he submitted a piece for the ‘Independent’ which they accepted. The Indie then offered him a regular commission as a political sketch writer, starting in 1999. I mentioned in my post ‘Running The Country – And All That Jazz’ that after he left office, Ken Clarke joined the Board of the ‘Independent’. Helena Kennedy, another name which will be familiar to readers of this blog, was also on the Board at the time. Clarke left office in 1997 – he joined the ‘Independent’ at some point after that. Michael Brown then also picked up work for other papers. He is now a political journalist who makes regular appearances as a commentator and newspaper reviewer on British TV, especially BBC News 24 and Sky News.
I note that Brown’s troubles began at the time that Gordon Anglesea sued for libel after a number of media outlets named Anglesea as abusing boys in care in north Wales and just as the Jillings investigation into child abuse in north Wales was launched. His career recovered whilst the Waterhouse Inquiry was nearing it’s end, when Amanda Platell had her feet firmly under the table at Conservative Central Office as Press Officer (see post ‘Did Glenda Occupy A Key Role In Keeping It All Quiet?’) and after Sir Peter Morrison had been found safely dead at the bottom of the stairs at his home.
I have mentioned that Brown and Portillo were good friends with Derek Laud, Brown’s research assistant and they even all went on holidays together. Laud was also a member of the Monday Club in the early 1980s. By the mid 1980s he was working for Tory MPs and Gov’t advisors as a researcher and as a special advisor to Sir Gordon Downey, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. During the second half of the 80s Laud was an aide and speechwriter for Thatcher. He also helped Alan Clark and Michael Heseltine with their speeches. During the 1992 general election Laud acted as a campaign aide and fundraiser for John Major.
In the mid 80s Laud established Strategic Network International, a company set up to campaign against anti-apartheid movements and in the late 80s he worked in private equity finance. In 1992 he co-founded the lobbying company Ludgate Laud. Laud is co-founder and executive director of New City Initiative, a think tank and financial lobbying company. He holds multiple positions at the ‘wealth management’ company Stanhope Capital LLP. In recent years Laud has became a TV celeb – including an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother and in 2005 he partnered Edwina Currie on a TV quiz.
In the 1990s Laud was active in support of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), a political party in Namibia backed by the South African Gov’t.
Laud has a rather different background to many of the people in the Conservative Party with whom he is mates. He came from a Jamaican family in south London but had a very big rift with his mother when he was fourteen, which he attributes to him being gay, but he never quite explained how exactly. He moved out of his mother’s house and had no contact with her for many years – he moved in with Anna Meeham the head of the school that he attended in Clapham. Anna lived with her sister Cecily who was a child psychologist – Cecily was friends with a Judge Ann Goddard. Laud has remained very close to these two sisters, particularly Cecily. In an interview with the ‘Daily Mail’ in 2007 he stresses their importance in his life and says that he consults them about everything.
I mentioned in my post ‘Are You Local?’ that teenaged boys from Ty’r Felin, the children’s home in Bangor run by the brutal Nefyn Dodd, were being trafficked into prostitution. They were hired out to men renting hotel rooms in the local area but they were also taken to London, where they were received by a Tory fundraiser and aide of Thatcher’s who had an apartment in Dolphin Square. I received an e mail from a journalist some weeks ago alleging that the man in question was Derek Laud.
Michael Portillo, a close friend of Laud and Brown’s, graduated from Cambridge in 1975 and in 1976 joined the Conservative Research Dept. He became a Gov’t advisor in 1979 and was elected to the Commons in 1984. He was given a seat in the Cabinet in 1992, as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He was Secretary of State for Employment (1994-95) and Secretary of State for Defence (1995-97). Throughout this time he was known as the ‘darling of the right’ and in his early days as an MP many had seen him as the heir to Thatcher. He lost his seat unexpectedly in the 1997 general election. He returned to the Commons in 1999, after being elected for Kensington and Chelsea, Alan Clark’s seat, after Clark died. He became Shadow Chancellor. Portillo retired from the Commons in 2005 and is now largely known for his media work and is a regular on the BBC.
The right wing of the Tory Party eventually developed a problem with Portillo in the aftermath of him fessing up in 1998 that he had ‘had some homosexual experiences’ when he was a young man. As it became clear that Portillo’s homosexual experiences might have been rather more extensive than he’d let on, people like Norman Tebbit became very angry and accused him of deceiving them. Which I think he probably did – he married a woman in 1982, voted against gay equality legislation and denied the rumours circulating that he was gay. I knew someone in north Wales back in the 1990s who used to go to gay clubs in London and Manchester who told me that he’d seen Portillo in gay clubs. Many years ago Michael Gove alleged in one of his books that there was quite an interesting party scene in Portillo’s Cambridge College – Peterhouse – whilst Portillo was there, including cross-dressing parties at which men were given girls names which were attended by both undergrads and Fellows of the College. There were a number of allegations circulating about Portillo, including that he was one of the Tories who was having sex with under-aged boys. I have no idea whether he was or not – but I think that he certainly knew people who were. He has known one person since he was a teenager who definitely did keep quiet about paedophile activity in children’s homes – Diane Abbott, the former Press and PR Officer for Lambeth Borough Council, whose own children’s homes were rife with a paedophile activity and who also sent children in care to John Allen’s Bryn Alyn Community in north Wales.
Another Tory who was the subject of allegations that he was gay was the man with the little list, Peter Lilley. Lilley felt obliged to issue a denial in the end and he stated that he found the idea of homosexuality about as appetising as eating cardboard. Lilley had been at Cambridge with Ken Clarke, Michael Howard, John Selwyn Gummer and Norman Lamont. Lilley was a member of the No Turning Back group along with Portillo, Hamilton and Michael Brown. He was the Chair of the Bow Group, 1973-75. He was elected as a Tory MP in 1987 and retired in 2017. He was PPS to Nigel Lawson, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (July 1990-April 1992) and Secretary of State for Social Security (April 1992-May 1997). Lilley was always right behind Margaret Thatcher, but when he realised that she was going to lose the leadership contest in 1990 he very quickly changed his allegiances and supported John Major.
The toxic Child Support Agency was one of Lilley’s initiatives, although whether he was responsible for appointing as head of the CSA the equally toxic Ros Hepplewhite – formerly Chief Exec of MIND whilst that organisation concealed horrors in north Wales perpetrated by the paedophiles’ friends – I do not know. In 1977 Lilley co-authored a book with Samuel Brittan, brother of the dreadful Leon, who has been named as a child abuser. Leon’s family and friends have robustly denied the allegations, but what is certain is that Leon lost a dossier given to him by Geoffrey Dickens MP whilst Leon was Home Secretary – the dossier contained names and details of Westminster figures whom were alleged to be abusing children. Many other files relating to child abuse also went walkabout from the Home Office whilst Leon was there. Please see post ‘A Few Of The Relevant Politicians In The Mary Wynch Case’ for an account of the hissy fit that Samuel Brittan threw in the mid 80s when the box office at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival failed to pull strings for him and how dear old Michael Grade promised to help him out.
Lilley’s father was personnel officer at the BBC. R.D. Laing once commented when observing his son growing up that he felt himself rocked by successive generations. I’ve experienced a similar sensation when researching for this blog.
Proctor and Michael Brown’s friend from York, Christine Holman, eventually married Neil Hamilton. Christine had worked as secretary for Tory MP Sir Michael Grylls (father of Bear). Years later, Grylls ended up in a lot of trouble in the Cash for Questions scandal, along with Hamilton, Brown and Peter Morrison. Grylls was a Tory MP for 27 years who stood down in 1997. In 1990 he took cash payments and misled the select committee on members interests.
The most notorious MP involved in the Cash for Questions saga was of course Christine Hamilton’s husband Neil. Neil Hamilton has been involved in such extensive scandal and wrongdoing that I cannot detail it all here, so I’ll just provide a few highlights.
Neil Hamilton grew up in Carmarthenshire – his father was a manager for the National Coal Board. Hamilton eventually became a barrister specialising in taxation. He went to Aberystwyth University, that institution which trained so many of the corrupt lawyers named on this blog, although Hamilton didn’t read law there. After Aber, he went to Cambridge and then embarked on a legal career. There are a lot of people in Wales who remember Hamilton from his time at Aber and there are some interesting stories circulating. He was a member of the Federation of Conservative Students at Aber between 1968-74. He was elected for the Conservatives in Tatton in 1983 and held the seat until 1997, when he was beaten by the journalist Martin Bell who stood on an anti-sleaze ticket. Hamilton was a member of the No Turning Back group and his network included Alun Duncan and Gerald Howarth. He was also a member of the Eldon League.
In June 1984 Hamilton was the subject of a BBC Panorama programme, ‘Maggie’s Militant Tendency’, which detailed some seriously bad behaviour and worrying connections on the part of Neil Hamilton. In Oct 1986 Hamilton and Gerald Howarth sued the B