Sir Michael Havers, brother of Baroness Butler-Sloss

Sir Michael Havers was appointed as Attorney General by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, and was made Baron Havers in 1987. He intervened three times between 1981 and 1983 to stop the investigation and exposure of Establishment paedophiles, and to prevent the publication of stories which showed that Establishment figures were members of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Although none of this implicates Havers' sister, Baroness Butler-Sloss,in any way, it seems at the very least deeply inappropriate to have someone heading a historic' child abuse inquiry whose own brother played such a major role in the protection of Establishment paedophiles throughout the 1980s.

1981: Sir Peter Hayman
In 1981, Sir Michael Havers warned Geoffrey Dickens not to name senior diplomat Sir Peter Hayman as a paedophile in the House of Commons. Dickens ignored his advice, and was publicly condemned by Havers, who said "All Mr Dickens has done is make certain that Sir Peter's shame and embarassment is known to the world. There cannot be any justification whatsoever for what has happened. How can the public have gained by this? How can it be in the public interest to name this man?".
Sir Michael Havers defended the decision not to prosecute Hayman despite possessing a huge collection of images of child abuse including as Barry Dickens revealed earlier this week babies being abused in their prams. Dickens accued Sir Michael of taking part in a "whitewash and "the cover-up of the century".

1982: Elm Guest House
The Elm Guest House scandal involved powerful Establishment figures sexually abusing young boys at a guest house in Barnes. The story hit the headlines in August 1982 and ran for just 10 days, but then the coverage stopped suddenly and it wouldn't be mentioned again in a British newspaper for many years. The reason for this news blackout seems to have been threats of legal action. Sir Michael Havers "personally investigated" complaints against newspapers from lawyers representing Elm Guest House.

1983: Geoffrey Prime
Geoffrey Prime was a former Cheltenham GCHQ worker who was also spying for the Russians, and ended up being jailed for 38 years. He had also been charged with sex offences against two young girls, and during the raid on his home police discovered Paedophile Information Exchange literature that would only have been available to members of the organisation. The Sun reported this, and said that Sir Michael Havers had held back from mentioning Prime's PIE membership during his trial "to avoid embarassing security chiefs". Sir Michael complained to the Press Council, but The Sun stood by their story and refused to reveal their source. Geoffrey Dickens had raised The Sun's allegation in Parliament and forced Mrs Thatcher to make a strong denial.

Sir Peter Hayman named as PIE member in the House of Commons
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Elm Guest House: The History of a Cover-Up[/URL]
Geoffrey Prime, GCHQ, and the Paedophile Information Exchange

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1983-84: The 3 Dickens Dossiers and the 2 Scotland Yard PIE Files

DICKENS DOSSIER #1, 20th August 1983 (approx)
"Geoffrey Dickens revealed that eight public figures were on his list of shame and that one of them had been a personal friend. But Mr Dickens said he still planned to name the eight in the Commons unless the Home Secretary took action.
He said: "I've got eight names of big people, really important names, public figures. And I am going to expose them in Parliament. I have not enjoyed this crusade. It's been horrible many times. One of those people among those eight has been a friend of mine."
Mr Dickens's own list of eight public figures involved in the sex scandal was handed to the Director earlier this week…together with the warning that he would name them in Parliament if necessary.
Two years ago, Mr Dickens defied leading figures in the Tory party by publicly exposing former diplomat and NATO adviser Sir Peter Hayman.
Hayman had not been named in a court case involving members of the Paedophile Information Exchange, but Mr Dickens decided it would be wrong to let him get away with it. It was case of speak out or be damned' and he spoke out.
Hayman resigned. Dickens, who initially came under attack from many of his colleagues in the Commons, received 8,000 letters from people who had tales to tell of others like Hayman.
Mr Dickens, 52, told as he relaxed wth a cup of tea how his wife, Norma, helped him sort out the letters.
He said: "We ruled out anyone who only had one or two accusations against him. The others we sifted until we were down to a couple of dozen on whom there appeared to be considerable evidence that they were unhealthy perverts. The security aspect concerned me greatly because of the names of several of the people who turned up in the files. I realised we were involved in a crusade a crusade that has to be carried through to a proper conclusion".
He used House of Commons researchers and enlisted local reporters, librarians and friends to help go through records, check files, even empty dustbins of some of the suspects. In the end there were just those eight men on the list of shame. Discussions with Scotland Yard followed.
"I suspect that their list is much bigger and I hope that this time there will be not attempt to head off charges as happened in the Sir Peter Hayman case."
He urged: "The Home Secretary must act. The will of the country demands that action should be taken and penalties made more severe so that perverts who involve children in their practices should be jailed.""
Source: Daily Express, 25th August 1983

DICKENS DOSSIER #2, 23rd November 1983
"Mr Leon Brittan, the Home Secretary, was asked yesterday to investigate an MP's file of cases involving paedophilia in Buckingham Palace and the diplomatic and civil services."
"A homosexual link between Buckingham Palace and the sex with children group PIE was claimed yesterday in a massive dossier of evidence by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens."
Source: The Times, 24th November 1983, Daily Express, 25th November 1983

DICKENS DOSSIER #3, 18th January 1984
Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens yesterday handed the Home Secretary a "sensational" 50-page dossier on the activities of the Paedophile Information Exchange. The file includes allegations of child abuse and sex assaults at a children's home. Mr Dickens said last night that he had also named a top television executive.
Source: Daily Mirror, 19th January 1984, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 19th January 1984, Daily Express, 20th January 1984

SCOTLAND YARD FILE #1, 23rd August 1983 (approx, delivered to Leon Brittan the same week as Dickens Dossier #1 was delivered to DPP)
Two separate reports on the Paedophile Information Exchange…have been prepared for ministers after Scotland Yard's third investigation into the organisation. The first report, prepared by the Yard and sent to Mr Leon Brittan, will be used by the Home Secretary when he returns from holiday next week and has to decide whether the organisation needs to be banned.
Source: The Guardian, 25th August 1983, The Telegraph, 25th August 1983,

SCOTLAND YARD FILE #2, 25th August 1983 (delivered to DPP same week as Dickens Dossier #1)
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Thomas Hetherington, today takes delivery of a file on paedophilia the distasteful fruit of two years' work by Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Squad. The squad's thick file, containing the names of the famous, the wealthy, and hundreds of anonymous citizens, was sent from the Yard yesterday.
"Because it has technically left our hands, we can say nothing about the file's contents as the matter is effectively sub judice", a Scotland Yard spokesman said last night. "It is now up to the Director to decide what action should be taken. It is purely coincidental that the report has been concluded at the time investigations are under way."
Source: Daily Express, 25th August 1983, Daily Mail, 25th August 1983

Magda Hassan Wrote:Sir Michael Havers, brother of Baroness Butler-Sloss

Sir Michael Havers was appointed as Attorney General by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, and was made Baron Havers in 1987. He intervened three times between 1981 and 1983 to stop the investigation and exposure of Establishment paedophiles, and to prevent the publication of stories which showed that Establishment figures were members of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Although none of this implicates Havers' sister, Baroness Butler-Sloss,in any way, it seems at the very least deeply inappropriate to have someone heading a historic' child abuse inquiry whose own brother played such a major role in the protection of Establishment paedophiles throughout the 1980s.

1981: Sir Peter Hayman
In 1981, Sir Michael Havers warned Geoffrey Dickens not to name senior diplomat Sir Peter Hayman as a paedophile in the House of Commons. Dickens ignored his advice, and was publicly condemned by Havers, who said "All Mr Dickens has done is make certain that Sir Peter's shame and embarassment is known to the world. There cannot be any justification whatsoever for what has happened. How can the public have gained by this? How can it be in the public interest to name this man?".
Sir Michael Havers defended the decision not to prosecute Hayman despite possessing a huge collection of images of child abuse including as Barry Dickens revealed earlier this week babies being abused in their prams. Dickens accued Sir Michael of taking part in a "whitewash and "the cover-up of the century".

1982: Elm Guest House
The Elm Guest House scandal involved powerful Establishment figures sexually abusing young boys at a guest house in Barnes. The story hit the headlines in August 1982 and ran for just 10 days, but then the coverage stopped suddenly and it wouldn't be mentioned again in a British newspaper for many years. The reason for this news blackout seems to have been threats of legal action. Sir Michael Havers "personally investigated" complaints against newspapers from lawyers representing Elm Guest House.

1983: Geoffrey Prime
Geoffrey Prime was a former Cheltenham GCHQ worker who was also spying for the Russians, and ended up being jailed for 38 years. He had also been charged with sex offences against two young girls, and during the raid on his home police discovered Paedophile Information Exchange literature that would only have been available to members of the organisation. The Sun reported this, and said that Sir Michael Havers had held back from mentioning Prime's PIE membership during his trial "to avoid embarassing security chiefs". Sir Michael complained to the Press Council, but The Sun stood by their story and refused to reveal their source. Geoffrey Dickens had raised The Sun's allegation in Parliament and forced Mrs Thatcher to make a strong denial.

Sir Peter Hayman named as PIE member in the House of Commons
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Elm Guest House: The History of a Cover-Up[/URL]
Geoffrey Prime, GCHQ, and the Paedophile Information Exchange

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You couldn't make this stuff up. It has political cover-up and keystone cops all over it. Does David Cameron and Theresa May really think all those deeply interested in this story weren't going to know who Butler-Sloss was and her compromised background? Cameron is running scared. And with good reason, I think.

Baroness Butler-Sloss was also appointed to head the inquiry into the death of Princess Diana and had to stand down when it was discovered, if I recall correctly? that she was receiving "grace and favour" housing from the Queen. Besides this during her time as the head of the Di inquiry she announced that she would "sit alone" to make judgements - which would effectively have made it a closed hearing. That sealed her fate. She was also Chairman of the Security Commission prior to its abolition in 2010. And as stated above, her brother was Sir Michael Havers who was deeply involved in this whole sordid affair.

If you wanted a safe pair of Establishment hands to steer the new inquiry to a desired conclusion, who could have been a better choice? Her appointment tells us everything that Cameron and May have in mind. Another political cover-up. No she will have to stand down, such is the pressure building against her and the government.

From the BBC news website

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Questions raised over Butler-Sloss inquiry position

Baroness Butler-Sloss said work on the child sex abuse review would begin as soon as possible
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The Home Office has defended the appointment of Elizabeth Butler-Sloss as chair of a child abuse review.
A number of MPs have voiced private concern that her position is tainted as her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was Attorney General in the 1980s.
That means he was in the job at the time of the alleged paedophile scandal.
He also faced criticism after he sought to stop Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens from naming in Parliament a top diplomat - Sir Peter Hayman - as a paedophile.
BBC News Channel chief political correspondent Norman Smith said a number of MPs had said they viewed Baroness Butler-Sloss's position as compromised.
One said he had already received emails from victims of child abuse to protest at her appointment because of her family connection.
One said he believed Lady Butler-Sloss, 80, would have to step down.
"This is an issue and I don't think it is going to end well," the MP said. "She is an honourable woman and I think she may well decide to stand down herself."
A Home office source, however, defended the appointment of Lady Butler- Sloss despite her family link to the controversy.
The source said: "She is a person of impeccable credentials and experience. Her record stands for itself regardless of her brother.

R.K. Locke Wrote:Mark McGowan talking about Peter McKelvie's appearance on Newsnight last night:

Thanks for this. I didn't see the programme. The following article from today's Daily Mail recaps what he told Newsnight:

Quote:20 VIPs in child sex ring, claims campaigner: Whistleblower says senior politicians, military figures and people with links to the Royals were members

• Peter McKelvie, 65, first raised alarm about the child abuse two years ago
  
• He says the conspiracy may have been going on for 65 years
  
  
• McKelvie helped to convict notorious child abuser Peter Righton
  
• Righton also a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange
  
  
• McKelvie said abusers made up a small percentage' of British Establishment
  
  

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Peter McKelvie, 65, said senior politicians, military figures and even people linked to the Royal Family were among the alleged abusers

At least 20 high-profile members of the British Establishment formed a VIP paedophile ring that abused children for decades, a whistleblower claimed last night.
Peter McKelvie, 65, said senior politicians, military figures and even people linked to the Royal Family were among the alleged abusers.
The campaigner, who first raised the alarm about prominent individuals engaged in child sex abuse two years ago, said the conspiracy may have been going on for 65 years.
Speaking in public for the first time in 20 years, the former local authority child protection chief said there were still people in power who had been involved in child abuse two decades ago.
While working in Hereford and Worcester, he helped to convict notorious child abuser Peter Righton once one of the country's most respected authorities on child care.

Righton, who is now dead, was also a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which tried to decriminalise sex between children and adults, before he was convicted of importing child abuse images.
Mr McKelvie told police in 2012 that seven boxes of potential evidence about Righton were being stored by West Mercia Police, and that these might contain evidence of further abuse by senior members of the establishment.
He told the BBC: For the last 30 years and longer than that there have been a number of allegations made by survivors that people at the top of very powerful institutions in this country, which include politicians, judges, senior military figures and even people that have links with the Royal Family, have been involved in the abuse of children.

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At the most serious level, we're talking about the brutal rape of young boys.'
Mr McKelvie said the child abusers made up a small percentage' of the British Establishment, but a slightly larger percentage' knew about it but did not report it to the police.
He said these people felt that' in terms of their own self-interest and self-preservation and for political party reasons, it has been safer for them to cover it up than deal with it.'



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Child abuser Peter Righton was once one of the country¿s most respected authorities on child care

The retired civil servant said he had once tried to blow the whistle with a very prominent figure' in the Labour Party when the party was in opposition, but nothing came of it'.
Mr McKelvie also took his concerns to Labour MP Tom Watson, who then raised the matter in Parliament two years ago.
His comments prompted the Scotland Yard inquiry known as Operation Fairbank, into claims of a paedophile network linked to Downing Street.
Speaking on the BBC's Newsnight, Mr McKelvie added: Over many years I've spoken to a considerable number of victims and most recently victims of perhaps the most powerful elite group of paedophiles.
Because the worst part of sexual abuse is the power that powerful people have over them. And they don't believe that power can ever be broken.'
The evidence from West Mercia Police includes letters between Righton, who was a consultant to the National Children's Bureau before he was unmasked, and other suspected paedophiles.

He welcomed the two inquiries ordered on Monday by Home Secretary Theresa May but said the allegations should have been taken up a very long time ago'.
He said: At last there is the very real prospect of survivors and victims having justice. I believe that there is strong evidence and an awful lot of information that can be converted into evidence if it is investigated properly.

'There has been an extremely powerful elite, among the highest levels of the political classes, for as long as I have been alive and I am 65 now.
There has been sufficient reason to investigate it over and over again certainly for the last 30 years and there has always been the block, the cover-up and the collusion to prevent that.'
[B]Parties must reveal what whips knew[/B]



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Mark Sedwill, permanent secretary at the Home Office

The Lib Dems, Tories and Labour were last night forced to agree to trawl through their records for evidence that party whips covered up historic allegations of child abuse against MPs.
A senior civil servant last night insisted all public bodies including political parties should carry out a sweep of their documents for any evidence of a conspiracy of silence.
Mark Sedwill, permanent secretary at the Home Office, said all bodies' should carry out investigations to see whether they hold files or evidence relevant to a new, wide-ranging inquiry into historic paedophile allegations.
He told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee this included the offices of party whips the senior MPs in charge of discipline in political parties. His intervention raises the prospect of current and former MPs who served as whips being questioned about what they knew of rumours or allegations against colleagues.
They have long been said to hold little black books' containing damaging information against colleagues they want to control.
Labour, the Tories and Lib Dems indicated last night that they would co-operate in full.
This week Labour MP Lisa Nandy raised in the Commons remarks by the late Conservative MP Tim Fortescue, who was a whip in Edward Heath's government between 1970 and 1973.

He said in a 1995 documentary that MPs in trouble' would ask the whips' office for help when in difficulty.
Mr Fortescue, who died aged 92 in 2008, claimed he could assist MPs with scandals, including those involving small boys', to exert control over them later and make sure they followed the party line.
He said: For anyone with any sense, who was in trouble, would come to the whips and tell them the truth, and say now, "I'm in a jam, can you help?".
We would do everything we can because we would store up Brownie points. That sounds a pretty, pretty nasty reason, but if we could get a chap out of trouble then he will do as we ask forever more.'

Former Conservative chief whip Mr Heath pioneered the keeping of a dirt book' about MPs' private lives for his political advantage.
Conservative MP Mark Reckless suggested there should be checks to ensure that whips' offices co-operated with any police inquiries into historic abuse allegations. He said a debate in the Nineties about whether whips' notes were personal or government property had led to a new shredding procedure.
A Tory spokesman said: Conservative whips will review their records and co-operate fully.'
Labour said: We will do everything in our power to help the inquiry.'
The Lib Dems said: We will cooperate with the inquiries in whatever way we can.'
Home Office mandarin faces grilling over 114 missing files:

More on the designedly(?) unsuitability of the Butler-Scloss appointment.

Quote:Baroness Butler-Sloss criticised over previous 'flawed' paedophile report

The retired judge appointed to lead the Government's major review of child sex abuse allegations admitted 'inaccuracies' in similar report two years ago


By David Barrett, and Matthew Holehouse

6:00PM BST 09 Jul 2014

Baroness Butler-Sloss, the former judge appointed to investigate allegations of an establishment cover-up of child sex abuse, was forced to issue an apology after making crucial errors in a previous inquiry into two paedophile priests, The Telegraph can disclose.

The peer was put in charge of a "flawed" investigation into how the Church of England handled the cases of two ministers in Sussex who had sexually abused boys.

Eight months after her report was published Lady Butler-Sloss had to issue a six-page addendum in which she apologised for "inaccuracies" which, she admitted, arose from her failure to corroborate information which was given to her by senior Anglican figures as part of the inquiry.

Critics said it was further evidence that Lady Butler-Sloss was the wrong person to lead the new Home Office inquiry into a range of institutions, including the Church.

The 2011 report looked at the Church's handling of information about Roy Cotton, a parish priest in the Diocese of Chichester who died in 2006, and Colin Pritchard, another Anglican minister in the diocese who attended theological college with Cotton in the 1960s.

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Cotton had been convicted of indecently assaulting a child in 1954 but despite this was ordained by the Church in 1966. Further allegations against him in the late 1990s did not lead to prosecution.
Pritchard, then 64, was jailed for five years in 2008 after admitting four offences of indecent assault on a male and three offences of indecency with a child.
Lady Butler-Sloss' report made 21 recommendations to improve the way the Church and other organisations handled allegations of historic sexual abuse.
But in her correction, issued in January 2012, Lady Butler-Sloss said: "After I completed my review in May 2011, I learnt that some information which I had set out ... was incorrect. I very much regret those inaccuracies."
She added: "I very much regret that I accepted the information I was given and did not make further inquiries.
"Having said that, I am entirely satisfied that, with the knowledge I now have ... I would not have made any changes either to my conclusions or my recommendations."
Simon Danczuk, a Labour MP who has exposed allegations of a Westminster paedophile ring in the 1970s and 1980s, said: "This raises more concerns about the appointment of Lady Butler-Sloss.

[SUB]Simon Danczuk MP[/SUB]
"Whoever conducts this new inquiry must be incredibly diligent and be able to dig down into the detail of what happened, so the fact that she had to make these amendments does raise alarm bells.
"I would be interested to known whether the Home Office was aware of this flawed report into child sex abuse when they appointed Lady Butler-Sloss to lead this new inquiry."
Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society which has been working to raise awareness of clerical child abuse, said: "In her official inquiry of abuse in Chichester diocese Baroness Butler-Sloss appears to have accepted at face value some of the evidence given to her by Anglican figures.
"Given the abuse that was rife in the diocese should she not have been less inclined to accept their word than an ordinary member of the public? Or could it be that she saw less need to corroborate their evidence because of their position in Church and society?"
A voluntary sector agency which supports adults who suffered childhood sexual abuse raised concerns about Lady Butler-Sloss' appointment.
Linda Dominguez, director One in Four, said: "We welcome the inquiry into childhood sexual abuse but would stress that survivors need to trust in the process and whoever runs this inquiry.
"If they are linked to establishment or anyone who is felt to be untrustworthy the inquiry will be seen as a sham."
Downing Street said David Cameron, the Prime Minister, stood by the appointment of Lady Butler-Sloss after it emerged her late brother was accused of a "whitewash" over a paedophile case.
In the early 1980s, Sir Michael Havers, then attorney general, was accused of a cover-up when he refused to prosecute Sir Peter Hayman, a diplomat and member of the Paedophile Information Exchange, a lobbying organisation for child abusers.
"She commands the very highest respect for her professional expertise and integrity," Mr Cameron's official spokesman said.

Peer under investigation over sex allegations stops House of Lords appearances - blaming dementia

• Jul 11, 2014 22:00
  
• By Tom Pettifor, Nick Sommerlad
  

Official records show he charged for 15 appearances in the month before his home was searched over accusations he sexually assaulted more than 20 boys

A Labour peer under investigation over child sex allegations has stopped his regular appearances in the House of Lords after claiming he has dementia.
Official records show he charged for 15 appearances in the month before his home was searched over accusations he sexually assaulted more than 20 boys.
He attended the House of Lords almost every other day last year but has not returned since mid-December, when police completed the two-day probe.
The peer, who is in his 80s, has not been arrested and it is understood doctors have advised that he is unfit to be quizzed.
But campaigning Labour MP Simon Danczuk said: "I have seen him in Parliament and he looked in quite good health to me.
"I'm not surprised to learn that he's been attending the Lords quite regularly until recently."
One alleged victim said he was seven when the politician visited his care home and abused him.
Detectives have compiled a dossier of complaints against the peer, who was first accused of child abuse more than two decades ago but was not charged.
Top lawyer Jae Carwardine is representing the lord.
She is a partner at Russell-Cooke solicitors, which says on its website: "She has been effective in avoiding prosecution both at the investigative stage pre-charge and pre-trial after careful submissions."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pee...ex-3845293

It was not just Labor and not even bipartisan but above party politics altogether.

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Minister in Tony Blair's government among group of men suspected of abusing children at home run by paedophile

• Apr 27, 2014 22:59
  
• By Tom Pettifor
  

A probe was halted soon after an ex-social services boss told police of his alleged evening visits in the early 1980s

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Picture shows the site of the former children's home in Brixton (left) Tony Blair and a photo posed by a model (top right) One of Tony Blair's ministers was among a group of men suspected of sexually abusing children at a home run by a convicted paedophile.
But the probe was halted soon after an ex-social services boss told police of his alleged evening visits in the early 1980s.
Official documents seen by the Daily Mirror during a 16-month investigation reveal former residents told detectives that a group of paedophiles attacked children in a private flat in the home.
But two former Lambeth social services employees involved in the case suspect a cover-up because experienced detective Clive Driscoll was removed from the investigation and given other duties.
One, a former manager who alerted police in 1998, said: "One wonders why Scotland Yard would be so desperate to stop it being investigated.
"I believe it was stopped because somebody in power was trying to prevent any further investigation into the politician."
And Dr Nigel Goldie, a council boss in charge of child protection in 1998, said: "There were some allegations that *children were being abused by one or two prominent persons.
"There were a lot of very senior people trying to put a lid on it. There was *something very unfortunate about the way the whole thing was dealt with."

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Angell Road in Brixton The Mirror has seen a Lambeth council memo that shows there was an intention to brief then Health Secretary, Frank Dobson, about the police investigation.
But Mr Dobson said he did not remember being briefed and was never told a minister in Tony Blair's government was suspected of child abuse.
Both Dr Goldie and the former manager have called for an independent probe into their suspicions the minister was protected by the Establishment.
After being tracked down by the Mirror, the ex-manager said in the early 1980s she saw the man visiting Michael John Carroll at the Angell Road children's home he ran in Brixton, South London.
She said she told top Lambeth* officials at the time she suspected Carroll was at the centre of a paedophile ring at the home.
Bosses learned in 1986 that he was convicted of sexually assaulting a boy of 12 in the Wirral in 1966.
But the pervert was allowed to continue running the home until 1991.
Carroll was finally arrested in the summer of 1998 and convicted of a string of child sex attacks dating back three decades including assaults on youngsters in Angell Road.
He was freed from his 10-year sentence in 2004. Dr Goldie, who was assistant director of social services at Lambeth, then helped Met Detective Inspector Mr Driscoll investigate claims of sexual abuse in children's homes.
At the time, Mr Driscoll was an *experienced child protection *detective. He went on to nail two racist thugs who murdered Stephen Lawrence.
But in 1998 he was taken off the Lambeth case and faced disciplinary proceedings for *allegedly naming the politician among the suspects.

Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll Describing how he learned the minister was being investigated, Dr Goldie said in a signed statement: "Clive started talking about the politician... He articulated that his approach was to shake the tree and be quite open about what he was doing and see what happened."
Dr Goldie, now a non-executive director of mental health charity the Richmond Fellowship, added: "The allegation was that the politician had been seen going in and out of Angell Road.
"There were allegations he sexually abused children."
Dr Goldie said he received a call from a senior police officer a short time later.
He recalled: "It was all very cloak and dagger stuff. He said, Can you come downstairs and meet us outside?'"
Dr Goldie met the officer, who was accompanied by a junior colleague, in a cafe in Clapham, South London. He said: "They had an air of authority like they were used to taking decisions. They asked if there had been other allegations about the individual [the minister]."
Dr Goldie, described a second meeting with the same senior officer at the same cafe a few days later. He said: "They said essentially that they saw it as fantasy. They were rubbishing Clive's evidence. It was a closure job on what Clive was saying.
"They put a lot of pressure on me. I had to treat it all confidentially.
"By that point Clive had been called in and given his disciplinary notice. They said that Clive hadn't been able to provide them with evidence for the claims."
Dr Goldie said their manner was "threatening" and added: "I was told not to tell anyone or repeat it. It was heavy."
Mr Driscoll was questioned under caution by Met officers and removed from the Lambeth district. The disciplinary proceedings were later dropped.
Dr Goldie, who left Lambeth council of his own accord four months later, added: "What is needed is a proper independent *investigation with a *judicial element to get to the bottom of who was involved in the decision to shut Clive's investigation down and to re-open the investigation into the original allegations."
An internal memo written by Dr Goldie, dated September 1, 1998, said Mr Dobson was to be updated about the investigation by the Social Services Inspectorate the body responsible for overseeing children's homes.
Whitehall officials are now conducting a review, at Mr Dobson's request, of all documents and briefings he received from the SSI when he was Health Secretary.
Mr Driscoll's investigation was scrapped soon after Ron Davies quit as Welsh *Secretary when he was mugged by a male prostitute at a gay meeting spot on Clapham Common, South London, in October 1998.
A week later, Agriculture Minister Nick Brown was forced into revealing he was gay by the News of the World. Neither men are the minister suspected of child abuse.
Alastair *Campbell's entry for November 4, 1998, in his published diary, The Blair Years, states: "As TB said later, with a touch of black humour, we could get away with Ron as a one-off aberration, but if the public start to think the whole Cabinet is indulging in gay sex, we might have a bit of a political problem."
Mr Driscoll's probe was shut down that month before Sir Denis O'Connor, then an assistant commissioner, set up new investigation Operation Middleton. It was contacted by more than 200 alleged victims and secured three convictions. In 19 cases suspects could not be identified.
Detective Superintendent Richard Gargini, who led Middleton, said last night: "Every allegation was taken *seriously, including unsubstantiated rumour.
"Where victims and suspects were *identified the inquiry was conducted ethically and with complete professionalism. We found no evidence of an organised network where people in authority attended the children's' homes for *inappropriate purposes."
Mr Driscoll was taken off the Stephen Lawrence case in January after he criticised Yard bosses for removing him from the 1998 probe.
He has been forced to retire next month. Several ex-Lambeth children's home residents have recently come forward to police to allege abuse. One ex-residential social worker faces trial next year.
The Mirror sent Scotland Yard a detailed list of questions on March 21 which they have failed to answer.
A spokesman said last week: "Various inquiries relating to Operation Middleton remain ongoing."
Mr Blair's spokesman refused to comment last night. All children's homes in Lambeth were shut down by 1995.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ton...ms-3468050

Was Bulic Forsythe killed to protect paedophile ring 'linked to future minister in Tony Blair's government?'

• May 21, 2014 06:00
  
• By Tom Pettifor
  

The council official told a new witness, tracked down in a Mirror investigation, that he suspected vulnerable youngsters were being assaulted by an organised gang

Ian Vogler / Daily Mirror
Questions: Bulic and his daughter Kiddist Cold case detectives are probing the murder of a council official who vowed to expose a paedophile ring allegedly linked to a future minister in Tony Blair's government.
The daughter of Bulic Forsythe believes her father may have been killed because he uncovered a children's home vice ring involving powerful figures.
Bulic told a new witness, tracked down in a Mirror investigation, that he suspected vulnerable youngsters were being assaulted by an organised gang at one home said to have been visited by the Labour politician.
But days later Bulic, 42, was beaten to death in his flat and the case has remained unsolved for 21 years.
Documents reveal detective Clive Driscoll advised the investigation should be reopened when he found potential links to his 1998 children's homes probe in Lambeth, South London.
But Mr Driscoll was removed from the case for naming the Blair minister as a suspect and Bulic's murder file has not been touched for 14 years.
Scotland Yard's Serious Crime Review Group are finally looking at it afresh after the Daily Mirror tracked down the daughter he never met.
Kiddist Forsythe born three months after Bulic's murder and 21 next week said: "Police must examine whether my dad was killed because of what he knew about child sex abuse in Lambeth and if it was linked to people in power.
"We know that he told more than one person he was going to expose wrongdoing in the borough shortly before he was murdered and that his killer or killers remain free."
Firefighters burst into Bulic's blazing flat early on Friday, February 6, 1993, and found his blood-soaked body.
The social services manager's skull had been fractured by a heavy weapon.

Justice: Bulic Forsythe's wife Dawn and daughter Kiddist In the months before his murder, Bulic had told colleagues at Lambeth Council he was on the verge of exposing child sex abuse and corruption.
A new witness told detectives for the first time last year that a terrified Bulic confided in her shortly before his death.
Speaking after she was tracked down by the Mirror, the former Lambeth worker said: "Bulic said, With what I'm about to tell you I'm taking a big risk.
"What if I was to say that council buildings are being used for child sexual abuse on a regular basis'."
The witness added: "Bulic came to me a second time because South Vale [youth assessment centre in West Norwood] had closed and he asked me who had the keys.
"He said, People are saying they are using it to make films'. He was very frightened about something and then he was murdered."
Bulic died at the time of an internal Lambeth council probe into alleged sexual abuse in the housing department where he had worked.
The resulting report, obtained by the Mirror, details allegations of rape, sexual assault and the swapping of child abuse videos and violent porn within the council. It implicated senior Lambeth officers as well as police and local politicians.
The report, signed by chair of the panel Eithne Harris, states: "The murder of Bulic Forsythe was seen by some witnesses as a possible outcome for anyone who strayed too far in their investigation or who asked too many questions."
Published internally in December 1993, it adds: "The panel heard evidence about BF [Bulic Forsythe] while he was working in Social Services, speaking to a colleague and telling her he was going to spill the beans'.
"Three days later he was killed."
This is not the witness traced by the Mirror.

Investigation: A Daily Mirror front page It states: "BF had allegedly expressed his fear of [boss initials] to another witness who visited him.
"He appeared very frightened to the witness. The witness at this point appeared fearful"
The report describes the atmosphere in the department as "one of intense fear".
Though the panel found no "direct link" between his death and work it said its evidence should be handed to police.
Bulic was last seen alive at 8.45pm on Wednesday, February 4, 1993.
A BBC Crimewatch broadcast five months later revealed that at 10am on the Thursday three official looking men were seen by a neighbour carrying files away from his flat in Clapham, South London.
Two more men were seen in a car behind the property at 2pm. His bedroom was torched at 1am on Friday and the oven turned on.
Kiddist's mum and Bulic's widow, Dawn, 60, said: "I think someone wanted to shut him up."
Paedophiles abused children in Lambeth's homes for decades.
A former social services manager told Mr Driscoll in 1998 that she saw the future Blair minister making evening visits to the Angell Road children's home in Brixton in the early 80s.
She claimed she learnt he had visited South Vale.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bul...le-3578788

Child abuse dossier 'without question circulated widely'

Last updated Sat 12 Jul 2014

• Politics
  

Copies of a dossier containing details of alleged child abuse operating among MPs in the 1970s-80s were "without question" circulated widely around Westminster, according to a Labour MP.
John Mann said there "was no question there were multiple copies" of the dossier, which is believed to have been destroyed, and "some people, who may still be working" will have seen it.


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