Let's hope Lord Brittan doesn't expire from stress before (or if?) he is able to answer questions by a fair and unprejudiced inquiry chaired by a respected, fair and unprejudiced chairperson...

Meanwhile, we might note that Lord Brittan is/was a trade adviser to David Cameron and, therefore, the latter would be badly damaged were it to be found that Lord Brittan ever attended events at Elm Guest House.

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Sir Edward Garnier 'tried to stop Labour MP challenging Lord Brittan over child abuse claims'

Simon Danczuk says former Conservative Solicitor General tackled him on the evening before he was due to give evidence to Home Affairs select committee

Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk Photo: Paul Cousans/ZENPIX









By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent

6:05PM GMT 27 Nov 2014
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One of David Cameron's former top legal advisers tried to stop a Labour MP "challenging" Lord Brittan of Spennithorne over child abuse allegations in the Houses of Parliament, it has been claimed.

Simon Danczuk said Sir Edward Garnier, who was made Solicitor General by the Prime Minister in May 2010, tackled him on the evening before he was due to give evidence to the Home Affairs select committee in the summer.

Mr Danczuk has made his name tackling historic institutional child abuse in the British establishment, including disclosing the paedophilia of former Liberal MP Cyril Smith.

He described how he had raised concerns that a dossier claiming allegations about child abuse by the political establishment had gone missing after it was handed to Leon Brittan now Lord Brittan when he was Home Secretary.

This prompted Theresa May, the current Home Secretary, to order a review.

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Mr Danczuk told MPs: "Earlier this year I told the Home Affairs Select Committee that a dossier containing allegations about child abuse by politicians had been handed by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens to the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan.
"This revelation helped lead to the Wanless/Whittam review and to the establishment of the overarching inquiry.
"But not everyone was pleased by the idea that I might challenge Lord Brittan.
"The night before my appearance at the committee I had an encounter with the right honourable learned Member for Harborough [Sir Edward Garnier].
"After the 10pm vote he drew me to one side outside the chamber and warned me to think very carefully about what I was going to say the following day.
"He told me that challenging Lord Brittan on child abuse would not be a wise move and that I might even be responsible for his death as he was unwell.
"I understand that people are cautious about naming parliamentarians but I do think that people who might know about child abuse allegations should answer questions whatever their position. We should not shy away from that."
Earlier in the debate, Mr Danczuk told how that his "desire to get to the truth about child abuse has not been universally shared".
He said: "We now know that from at least the 1970s up to the present day there have been people in positions of power who have sexually abused children, not only this there have been powerful people willing to cover up this abuse and obstruct justice.
"People were more concerned about their own careers and protecting the system than they were about the lives that were being shattered.
"There was a culture of acceptance of child sex abuse by the powerful and well connected."

[SUP]Lord Brittan denies child abuse allegations (Getty)[/SUP]
Sir Edward was the Coalition's solicitor-general from May 2010 to September 2012.
Sir Edward, who has known Lord Brittan for 40 years, declined to comment when Mr Danczuk's remarks were put to him by the Telegraph on Thursday afternoon.
It is understood that Sir Edward was intervening after a personal request by Lady Brittan, who was worried about the strain on her husband's health.
He is now considering answering Mr Danczuk's allegations as a point of order in the House of Commons.
Many of the allegations about child abuse by members of the Establishment centre on the Elm Guest House in south west London which was run in the early 1980s by Haroon and Carole Kasir.
Richmond MP Zac Goldsmith said during the debate that Scotland Yard had since confirmed that Cyril Smith had been a visitor.
He told MPs how a child protection campaigner had been told by Mrs Kasir before she died 30 years ago that "that boys had been brought in from a local children's homeGrafton Close, also in Richmondfor sex, and that she had photographs of establishment figures at her hotel.
"One of them apparently showed a former Cabinet Minister in a sauna with a naked boy. She had logbooks, names, times, dates, pictures of her customers and so on."
Mr Goldsmith said it was "astonishing" that all the evidence from raids on the guesthouse had simply disappeared and no longer exists.

David Guyatt Wrote:Let's hope Lord Brittan doesn't expire from stress before (or if?) he is able to answer questions by a fair and unprejudiced inquiry chaired by a respected, fair and unprejudiced chairperson...

Meanwhile, we might note that Lord Brittan is/was a trade adviser to David Cameron and, therefore, the latter would be badly damaged were it to be found that Lord Brittan ever attended events at Elm Guest House.

I'm pleased to see him making use of parliamentary privilege. This is what it is for.

Cameron seems to have come out of the Andy Coulson hacking crime wave okay. But just shows what a sleazy lot the Tories are.

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Exaro is running a story on the Buckingham Palace connection HERE.

They'll have to lift any restrictions related to the Official Secrets Act. There are policemen coming forward and they want to speak and they are getting phone calls telling them to shut up.

Quote:EXCLUSIVE: MPs face sex abuse arrest!

TWO former MPs face arrest within weeks over child sex abuse claims, we can reveal.


By Don Hale / Published 30th November 2014
SEX CASES: Cyril Smith, who died in 2010, had been accused of *numerous sex offences against children [PHOTOSHOT]
Labour's John Mann, who has campaigned to uncover details of a Westminster *paedophile ring operating in the 1970s and 80s, said he *expected police to swoop in the New Year.
The news came as it emerged former policemen who have *investigated the abuse network have been warned they could be arrested for breaching the *Official Secrets Act if they speak out now.
There are calls for the *retired officers to be given an *amnesty from prosecution if they reveal what they know.
We can reveal that ex-Special Branch detective Tony Robinson says he received warnings about repeating facts relating to *disgraced Liberal MP Cyril Smith and over his monitoring of other politicians.
Tony, 81, now retired and in poor health, said he was "shocked and surprised" by warnings from his old bosses at Lancashire *Police.
He said they told him his *knowledge was still protected by the Official Secrets Act (OSA), adding that he should not speak to the media.
Tony, who retired more than 20 years ago, said: "I took this call from a man at my old HQ telling me not to speak about things from years ago.
"I could hardly believe it.
"They have not been in touch for years and then to threaten me or point out that I am still covered by the OSA was ridiculous.
"The whole incident has stressed me out I'm not well and can't be doing with all this."
Tony was the officer who found Cyril Smith's prosecution files "deliberately hidden" in a *Special Branch safe in Preston in the early 1970s.
Smith, who died in 2010, had been accused of *numerous sex offences against children over decades.
Records of incidents were allegedly covered up.
Smith was never charged *despite several police probes.
Last night Mr Mann, MP for *Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, said he expected politicians to be "arrested and charged".

"There can no longer be any doubt at all that powerful people have done terrible things and they have been protected by the Establishment"
Zac Goldsmith, Tory MP

He said: "There have been a lot of leads and information received from London and *Nottingham from victims, which I have passed on to the police.
"They have been investigated and I am certain arrests will be made soon and long before the next election."
The MP also *condemned *attempts to gag former police.
Mr Mann added: "I'm disgusted at the treatment given to Mr *Robinson.
"He should never have been put in that position with bullying and intimidation.
"I am quite prepared to take up this issue with the Home *Secretary Theresa May and the *shadow minister Yvette Cooper.
Mr Mann's Labour colleague Simon Danczuk, the MP for *Rochdale, last week made a plea for an amnesty to help past and present officials with any *knowledge of sexual abuse.
On Thursday in a Commons *debate on historical child abuse, Mr Danczuk said: "A large number of police officers, both retired and serving, have *information to give. We simply need to get the full picture and to get those people to speak at an inquiry.
"The Home Secretary must *ensure there is a full amnesty for any officer so that they are not worried about the Official *Secrets Act or their pensions."
Tory MP Zac Goldsmith said in the debate: "There can no longer be any doubt at all that powerful people have done terrible things and they have been protected by the Establishment."
Mr Danczuk added: "The *network organised child abuse and conspired to protect each of its members from exposure.
"Cyril Smith was certainly part of it. During my own inquiries Smith was found to be the subject of multiple *police investigations all of which were dropped.
"There are many examples of retired police officers offering powerful testimony to me about past investigations of child abuse.
"They were shut down once it was apparent high-profile *politicians and other Establishment figures were involved.
"Questions must be asked why those investigations did not *continue."

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-n...use-arrest

Magda Hassan Wrote:They'll have to lift any restrictions related to the Official Secrets Act. There are policemen coming forward and they want to speak and they are getting phone calls telling them to shut up.

Quote:EXCLUSIVE: MPs face sex abuse arrest!

TWO former MPs face arrest within weeks over child sex abuse claims, we can reveal.


By Don Hale / Published 30th November 2014
SEX CASES: Cyril Smith, who died in 2010, had been accused of *numerous sex offences against children [PHOTOSHOT]
Labour's John Mann, who has campaigned to uncover details of a Westminster *paedophile ring operating in the 1970s and 80s, said he *expected police to swoop in the New Year.
The news came as it emerged former policemen who have *investigated the abuse network have been warned they could be arrested for breaching the *Official Secrets Act if they speak out now.
There are calls for the *retired officers to be given an *amnesty from prosecution if they reveal what they know.
We can reveal that ex-Special Branch detective Tony Robinson says he received warnings about repeating facts relating to *disgraced Liberal MP Cyril Smith and over his monitoring of other politicians.
Tony, 81, now retired and in poor health, said he was "shocked and surprised" by warnings from his old bosses at Lancashire *Police.
He said they told him his *knowledge was still protected by the Official Secrets Act (OSA), adding that he should not speak to the media.
Tony, who retired more than 20 years ago, said: "I took this call from a man at my old HQ telling me not to speak about things from years ago.
"I could hardly believe it.
"They have not been in touch for years and then to threaten me or point out that I am still covered by the OSA was ridiculous.
"The whole incident has stressed me out I'm not well and can't be doing with all this."
Tony was the officer who found Cyril Smith's prosecution files "deliberately hidden" in a *Special Branch safe in Preston in the early 1970s.
Smith, who died in 2010, had been accused of *numerous sex offences against children over decades.
Records of incidents were allegedly covered up.
Smith was never charged *despite several police probes.
Last night Mr Mann, MP for *Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, said he expected politicians to be "arrested and charged".

"There can no longer be any doubt at all that powerful people have done terrible things and they have been protected by the Establishment"
Zac Goldsmith, Tory MP

He said: "There have been a lot of leads and information received from London and *Nottingham from victims, which I have passed on to the police.
"They have been investigated and I am certain arrests will be made soon and long before the next election."
The MP also *condemned *attempts to gag former police.
Mr Mann added: "I'm disgusted at the treatment given to Mr *Robinson.
"He should never have been put in that position with bullying and intimidation.
"I am quite prepared to take up this issue with the Home *Secretary Theresa May and the *shadow minister Yvette Cooper.
Mr Mann's Labour colleague Simon Danczuk, the MP for *Rochdale, last week made a plea for an amnesty to help past and present officials with any *knowledge of sexual abuse.
On Thursday in a Commons *debate on historical child abuse, Mr Danczuk said: "A large number of police officers, both retired and serving, have *information to give. We simply need to get the full picture and to get those people to speak at an inquiry.
"The Home Secretary must *ensure there is a full amnesty for any officer so that they are not worried about the Official *Secrets Act or their pensions."
Tory MP Zac Goldsmith said in the debate: "There can no longer be any doubt at all that powerful people have done terrible things and they have been protected by the Establishment."
Mr Danczuk added: "The *network organised child abuse and conspired to protect each of its members from exposure.
"Cyril Smith was certainly part of it. During my own inquiries Smith was found to be the subject of multiple *police investigations all of which were dropped.
"There are many examples of retired police officers offering powerful testimony to me about past investigations of child abuse.
"They were shut down once it was apparent high-profile *politicians and other Establishment figures were involved.
"Questions must be asked why those investigations did not *continue."

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-n...use-arrest

Applause to Tony Robinson for speaking out about this pressure. It's clear they are still trying to put a lid on this and failing. Someone had to tell them to fuck off and Robinson just did. But they'll keep trying to quash the whole thing. That's what they do.

Also, I was very interested to learn that the files on Cyril Smith were accidentally found in a Special Branch safe. My guess is that is where most of the Westminster paedophile/Geoffrey Dickens files currently are - assuming they haven't been shredded.

I wonder who is the "former minister in Tony Blair's government"? Perhaps the suppressed story in the herald Scotland newspaper some years ago might now prove to have been valid?

From The Daily Mirror:

Quote:Two notorious paedophiles at centre of nationwide network of abusers including Tory and Labour politicians

• Dec 01, 2014 14:27
  
• By Tom Pettifor, Elwyn Roberts
  

John Allen, 73, and Michael John Carroll, 66, were friends when they were abusing youngsters North Wales and London respectively in the 1980s


Links: Council documents reveal how Carroll, right, used to visit Allen, left, at his children's homeTwo notorious paedophiles were at the centre of a nationwide network of abusers which allegedly included both Labour and Tory politicians, a Mirror investigation has found.
Detectives suspected 16 years ago that the children's home abuse ring spanned the country and involved hundreds of victims.
Official documents show paedophiles John Allen, 73, and Michael John Carroll, 66, were friends when they were abusing youngsters North Wales and London respectively in the 1980s.
Their links can be revealed on the day Allen was jailed for life for sexually abusing 19 children he was paid to look after.
Margaret Thatcher's former aide Sir Peter Morrison is suspected of abusing boys in Allen's care in Wales while a former minister in Tony Blair's government is currently being probed over his alleged visits to Carroll's Angell Road children's home in Lambeth, south London.
Both men were protected by the authorities who ignored Allen's victims for years and allowed Carroll to remain in charge of the home despite knowing he was a convicted paedophile.
A series of articles in the Daily Mirror have revealed how former detective Clive Driscoll was removed from an investigation into Carroll in 1998 when he named the Blair minister as a suspect.
Official papers from that year show a boy placed in a Lambeth home was abused by Carroll, known as MJC, while two of the boy's brothers went to a Bryn Allen Community in Wales where youngsters were attacked by Allen.
The internal Lambeth council document, dated 23 September, 1998, states: "Additional information not yet in a statement is that the third brother of witness 1 and 2 was placed at Bryn Allen Community not Angell Road.
"However he has confirmed that he knew MJC who used to visit John Allen at the community.
"John Allen is now serving a long custodial sentence for abuse of children at that group home...From the placements list it appears we used a number of homes to place children now known to have suffered extensive abuse. Eg Bryn Allen, and St Georges Liverpool now renamed Clarence House."
Andy Stenning / Daily Mirror
Convicted paedophile Michael Carroll Another document dated September 18, 1998, reveals officers from Merseyside's Operation Care, who successfully investigated Carroll, were aware of the links.
It states: "Operation care (sic) has suggested a tie-up between Lambeth children and the enquiry in North Wales. North Wales Police say that Lambeth was informed of this in 1991."
Mr Driscoll, who led the investigation that saw two of Stephen Lawrence's killers jailed, said of his 1998 suspects: "Some of the names were people that were locally working, some people that were, if you like, working nationally.
"There was quite a mix really because it appeared that it was connected to other boroughs and other movement around the country."
A social services source who investigated abuse in Lambeth agreed, saying: "There were patterns of children moving to certain homes around the country, Lambeth, north Wales, south Wales and Merseyside.
"It was bigger than Lambeth - it involved senior children's homes officers around the country but it was proving it that was the problem.
Daily Mirror
"These like-minded people had access to one another through their work."
One of Carroll's Lambeth victims confirmed that detectives were aware of his links with Allen in 1998.
Now a father and delivery driver, he said: "The police told me John Allen knew Carroll. They said they were investigating their links but that was the last I heard.
"You have to think to yourself did they have a system where children were being passed around homes to be abused?"
Carroll took boys on camping trips to the Caernarfon, north Wales, where he ran the Ozaman charity in the 1980s and later opened a hotel near Wrexham, where many children from the North Wales homes were abused.
One man who accompanied Carroll on the trips is currently being hunted by Merseyside police after being summonsed earlier this year over allegations of child sex attacks dating back many decades.
Carroll's fellow care worker Steven Forrest, was accused of sexually assaulting a young boy at Angell Road. He died of an Aids related illness before the boy made the allegation.
At least three men who worked with Carroll at a youth charity in London were also convicted paedophiles.
Allen was jailed in 1995 for six years for child sex abuse. A former police officer who knew Allen is currently on bail after being arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing boys.
Allen's former employees Peter Howarth and Stephen Norris were both convicted of sexually abusing children in their care.
Rod Richards, a former Conservative MP and ex-leader of the Welsh Tories, has claimed he had seen evidence linking Sir Peter Morrison to the North Wales children's homes case, in which up to 650 children in 40 homes were sexually, physically and emotionally abused over 20 years.
Former Tory minister Edwina Currie revealed that Morrision was a child abuser in her diaries, which were published 12 years ago.
National Crime Agency/PA Wire
Mr Richards also linked a second leading Tory grandee - now dead - to the scandals at homes including Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn Hall.
He said official documents had identified the pair as frequent, unexplained visitors to the care homes.
Scotland Yard have opened three investigations linked to Carroll following revelations in the Daily Mirror.
He was jailed for ten years at Liverpool Crown Court in 1999 after admitting 35 offences against 12 boys, both on Merseyside and in Lambeth.
Former Lambeth social services director David Pope allowed him to continue running Angell Road despite learning he had been convicted of indecently assaulting a young boy in 1966.
Carroll now lives in a half a million pound home near Oswestry, Shropshire.
He denies ever meeting the Blair minister. Allen, who made millions from his children's homes, will be sentenced today at Mold crown court after last week being found guilty of 33 sex attacks on children as young as 10. He was jailed in 1995 for six years for child sex abuse.

A Home Office spokes-thing said that "Mrs. May is absolutely committed to protecting David Cameron from embarrassment and protecting the guilty from the innocent."

Quote:Westminster 'VIP paedophile ring' inquiry in crisis as child sex abuse victims slam Theresa May



Victims of alleged sex abuse wrote to Theresa May demanding a wider remit and new panel members

ROB HASTINGS

Thursday 04 December 2014

Alleged victims of child sexual abuse have warned Theresa May they will withdraw from the Government's controversial official inquiry unless major changes are made.

In an open letter to Home Secretary released today, 24 signatories claimed the inquiry as it stands is "not fit for purpose" because of what it is being asked to examine and the proposed chairs.
The inquiry has been bedevilled with problems since it was announced in July. It is yet to find a chair, following the embarrassing resignations of Baroness Butler-Sloss and Fiona Woolf. The problems intensified with yesterday's written warning from "survivors and associated professionals".
"We were very much hoping to take up the invitations to engage with your ministerial officers to discuss the child sex abuse inquiry but we regret to say we have to decline," they said. "We, alongside many survivors, have made numerous representations to you regarding our view that the inquiry as it stands is not fit for purpose.
"Its terms of reference are inadequate for delivering the original declared intentions of the inquiry, namely to investigate government and Establishment cover-ups of paedophiles in their ranks and aiding bringing the perpetrators to justice.
"Secondly, both your appointees to head the inquiry panel have had to be forced out by survivors because of obvious conflicts of interest, and you have failed to address similar issues regarding other panel appointees.
"Thirdly, that the cut-off date for the inquiry investigations was set at 1970 is highly disturbing given that the 1969 Children's Act transferred Home Office-run youth establishments, from which thousands of abuse allegations eventually emerged."
The signatories said they had no option but to end engagement with the inquiry until Mrs May scrapped the current panel, replacing it "on a transparent basis", declared a statutory inquiry, and extended the cut-off date to 1945.
Mrs May has asked the Home Affairs Select Committee to draw up a list of three chair candidates for her to consider. But committee chairman Keith Vaz said he had insisted Mrs May should identify a "suitable nominee" and allow the committee to examine the individual.
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "The Home Secretary is absolutely committed to ensuring the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has the confidence of survivors and that is why she is meeting them and their representatives."

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Inside the house of horrors: Revealed in chilling detail, how a boy taken to infamous gay brothel gave name of a senior politician he said abused him there to the police - who left the MP's name OUT of their report

• Elm Guest House in Barnes is at heart of probes into paedophile activity
  
• South-west London hotel allegedly visited by VIP paedophiles for decades
  
• It was closed down in 1982 amid sensational allegations of child sex abuse
  
• One boy who stayed there told police of attacks by one senior politician
  
• His statement was left out of reports in an 'establishment cover up'
  

By STEPHEN WRIGHT and RICHARD PENDLEBURY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 22:03, 5 December 2014 | UPDATED: 23:15, 5 December 2014

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Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London, has been at the heart of probes into historic paedophile activity by Westminster MPs for decades

Bedtime at a large Edwardian house in a genteel London suburb.
In a room on one of the upper floors, a small boy is taken to a bedroom by a middle-aged woman. The world beyond the curtains is dark and cold.
On the common across the street, huge trees rustle and loom scarily. It is not a night to be outside.
In the bedroom, the child lies quietly as the woman speaks.
Across the city, countless other youngsters must be listening to lullabies and fairy tales; the confirmations of love, comfort and security before sleep.
But not this boy. He is full of foreboding. That is because his night terrors are not imaginary but real and inflicted upon him with this woman's connivance.
Tonight, her bedside chat would sound very odd to an eavesdropper.
She calls the boy a little queen' and talks of him doing tricks' for money: £20 a time.
He knows that soon after she leaves him, a strange man will come into the room and close the door. The stranger will then undress and the boy's ordeal will begin again.
Eventually the boy, who is of primary school age, will tell this heart-breaking story to the authorities. But, as we shall see, scandalously little will be done to investigate those allegedly responsible.
For more than 30 years, the now-defunct Elm Guest House in Rocks Lane, Barnes, South-West London, has been at the centre of serious and often sensational allegations concerning paedophile activity.
The main contention has long been that the address was a meeting place for a VIP paedophile ring which held orgies and abused young boys, many of whom were in local authority care.
A list of famous alleged attendees, including Cabinet ministers, MPs, churchmen, pop stars, spies, judges, tycoons and members of the royal household, has been widely circulated.
While supporting evidence for the presence of most of those named remains elusive, police accept that the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith, a known child abuser, was indeed a visitor to the guest house.
New claims, and a resurgence of interest in the historic allegations, culminated in the launch last year of Operation Fernbridge, a full police investigation into what is supposed to have happened at Rocks Lane. This summer, Home Secretary Theresa May announced a wide-ranging independent inquiry into historic child sex abuse by prominent individuals.
Last week, Mrs May suggested that the allegations aired so far including a claim of three child murders by Westminster-linked paedophiles who frequented exclusive flats in the Thames-side Dolphin Square amounted to the tip of the iceberg'.
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Both inquiries would like to get hold of a dossier of alleged abuses handed to the then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in November 1983.
Lord Brittan has explained that he passed the dossier to Home Office officials for examination, but the dossier remains missing from Whitehall files. There have been repeated suggestions of an Establishment cover-up.
For the past two years, the Mail has pursued its own investigation into the Elm Guest House story and child abuse by senior figures.
We led the way in revealing how a young man called Peter Hatton-Bornshin, who as a schoolboy was allegedly abused at Elm Guest House, killed himself in 1994, aged 28. Friends say the emotional trauma he suffered at Rocks Lane drove him to his drugs-related death.
We have also examined the circumstances surrounding the death of Carole Kasir, the German-born owner-manager of the Elm Guest House. She'd always maintained that the business was nothing more sinister than a gay-friendly hotel.

Leon Brittan asked about dossier passed to Home Office









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Cyril Smith is thought to have frequented the house before it was closed in 1982. The following year, Geoffrey Dickens MP (right) handed a report into paedophile activities among Westminster politicians to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan

A coroner decided that she had killed herself, again with a drugs overdose, but child protection campaigners claimed she was murdered as part of the VIP cover-up.
One friend told us Kasir had boasted she had a stash of incriminating photographs in a bank vault, for which she had turned down an offer of £20,000. One of those pictures allegedly included Cyril Smith.
Last week, the local Tory MP, Zac Goldsmith, repeated allegations that a former Cabinet minister was photographed with a naked boy in the sauna of Elm Guest House. If so, that picture has yet to emerge.
It is often hard to separate fact and fiction in the Elm Guest House affair. Over three decades, so much has been muddied by conspiracy theorists, fantasists, those bent on making political capital, and those with personal grudges who have practised smear by association.
As always, it is best to listen to those who were directly involved.
Today, following fresh investigations during which we spoke to former social workers, council officials, retired police officers, lawyers, campaigners and other key witnesses, we can present a compelling picture of Elm Guest House in the weeks leading up to its final closure in June 1982.
In particular, we can reveal that a social worker was present when the boy described above identified a senior politician as being one of his abusers. Crucially, that social worker alleges that when he later saw the police transcript of that interview, the MP's name was missing.
The boy happened to be at the property when it was raided by police.


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Leon Brittan said he handed the report to the Home Office in the 1980s, but it has been found in its files

The never-before-published details of what the child claimed to have suffered at the Rocks Lane address supported by medical evidence are deeply shocking. Much is simply too disturbing to print. Equally, while the Mail knows his name, we are being careful not to publish details which could result in him being identified.
Under Carole Kasir's ownership, Elm Guest House was transformed from a nondescript suburban hotel into a gay rendezvous which was advertised in Gay News and other specialist publications. These included the newsletter of the Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality, which strongly recommended' the guest house to its gay Tory readers.
At the time (it was still only 15 years after the decriminalisation of homosexual acts), complaints of police harassment against the gay community were commonplace.
Elm Guest House was under observation because of reports that it was being run as a brothel. Yet police interest in what was going on there in the early summer of 1982 was also focused on reports of there being a number of vulnerable' children on the premises.
Two young officers were selected to pose as a gay couple to go undercover as guests at Elm Guest House and find out more. Contemporary accounts show that the pair went to the address on June 12, 1982.
At the door, they were greeted by a youth called Lee, who, aged 16, was five years below what was then the gay age of consent.
Once inside, the two officers were introduced to other members of the guest house staff, including a man called Nellie' and a barman named Errol, both of whom called the policemen dear'. Lee then took the officers upstairs.
After being shown their £17-a-night room, the policemen were asked by Lee if they knew what other services' were on offer at Elm Guest House. They were told there was a sauna in Room 7, a selection of gay sex videos and a top-floor room in which Lee massaged' guests.
Nellie' was equally solicitous. Were the officers married, he asked. If so, it didn't matter; there would be no questions asked about their identity. The staff at the guest house were unimpeachably discreet, and were all gay apart from Mrs Kasir.
That is what made Elm Guest House unique; it was the only gay joint run by a straight woman. Later, the officers were told that Kasir had run the guest house as a straight' establishment for two years, before deciding that an exclusively gay clientele would be more lucrative.


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The Mail understands that one of the undercover officers asked a member of the staff whether children might also be among the services' on offer. While no explicit reference to sex was made, the enthusiastic answer included a reference to a youngster who was going to be a lovely queen'.
Later, the undercover officers met Carole Kasir herself in the guest house bar. She spoke of 16-year-old Lee as her little queen', and then introduced them to a much younger boy, allegedly saying that the child could show the men some new tricks'.
In their presence, Kasir called the child my little queen' and referred to him as she'. The boy seemed very camp, and acted in an effeminate manner, the officers thought.
The undercover policemen went to Lee's room and waited while he noisily finished massaging' a male client. The teenager complained to them that the establishment's gay porn videos were worn out by over-use and needed to be replaced. They were provided by a guest house lodger who got them from a Soho sex shop run by a notorious organised-crime family.
At dinner that night, Kasir boasted of the amount of trade' that Lee the latest of a number of in-house masseurs' conducted upstairs. It earned the teenager some £200 a week.


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Carole Kasir, the owner of Elm Guest House, once reportedly told a friend she had photographs incriminating public figures in paedophile activity

She asked if Lee had invited the policemen to a sauna party due to be held at Elm Guest House the following weekend. Entrance would be £5 per head, but because of the high expected attendance some 200 guests the men might have to share a bed with a number of other regulars.
During conversation with another member of staff, they were told that an elderly retired judge acted as the guest house's legal adviser'.
The officers made their excuses and left after breakfast the next morning. Plans were made to return the following Saturday, so that a police raid would coincide with the sauna party.
On the day of the raid, the undercover men returned and paid their £5 entrance charges. One of them was wearing a fake plaster cast on his arm, under which there was a device which, when pressed, would send the signal for his colleagues outside to enter.
The Mail understands that this plan went awry when Kasir hugged him on arrival, setting off the device. The raid began with only a handful of people on the premises. Kasir was arrested, along with Lee and another man.
Nevertheless, one of those present at Elm Guest House that day was the young boy. He was removed from the premises and interviewed by detectives in the presence of a social worker at nearby Richmond police station. His initial testimony was truly shocking.
He said that a man at the guest house had explained to him about how homosexual men did tricks' with each other. Afterwards, the man raped the boy in a bedroom. This was the first time the child had been sexually abused in this way.
A few weeks later, the boy was again at the guest house when Kasir told him that other men could do tricks' with him, for which he would get paid. The boy told her that he didn't want to do it, but Kasir, he said, told him the money was too good to turn down.
The boy said that afterwards, a foreign' man who was staying at the guest house came into a room in which the boy was asleep, woke him and got undressed.
The boy said he told the man that he didn't want to do anything and he should get his money back from Kasir. The man said nothing and, despite the boy's struggles, committed a serious sexual assault on him.
When the man had gone, Kasir came in and spoke to the child as if nothing had happened.
He claimed that some days later, in the same room, another man undressed and brutally raped the boy for about an hour. The boy remembered that it hurt a lot.
The following morning he saw the man with Kasir, and the adults both remarked quite casually that he looked in physical discomfort. The man even said he hoped he was all right.
This became routine. The boy was raped by a succession of clients, he said. One of them assaulted him while dressed in military uniform. Carole Kasir would leave him Vaseline.


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Home Secretary Theresa May previously said allegations of murder and paedophile activity at a number of addresses thought to have been regularly visited by MPs and public figures were 'the tip of the iceberg'

Kasir began to refer to him as little queen', the boy recalled. In return for being abused, he would receive video games, jewellery and cash. The money the men paid to abuse the boy was put in a cash box behind the guest house bar.
After the boy had been raped, Kasir would often come into the room and replace his soiled bed clothes.
Those present at this interview felt that the boy was very sexually aware for his years, and had also been made very materialistic. He referred to himself as a little queen'.
A police surgeon who examined the boy shortly after his rescue found that he had injuries consistent with male rape over a period of time.
If Uncle XXXXX' had done what was alleged, this was not just a sordid suburban scandal, but one of national importance

We have learned that one of those present when the boy was first interviewed by police recalled how the child had seemed torn between telling everything, and maintaining a silence about his ordeal.
When spoken to the following day, he was markedly more reticent.
By the following year, the boy, who was in local authority care, was insisting that his original statement was largely untrue. Officials believe that Carole Kasir had managed to communicate with him in order to buy his silence.
Elm Guest House closed for good after the police raid, which sections of the gay community viewed as an example of official homophobia.
There is no doubt the raid was bungled, but why was no one prosecuted for the alleged sustained abuse of the child they found there that day? No doubt the boy's growing reluctance to co-operate would have been fatal, in the end, to any chance of success.
Kasir was found guilty at the Old Bailey in 1983 only of running a disorderly house and possessing obscene videos. She was given a suspended sentence. She always denied that child abuse had taken place at Elm Guest House. Similar minor charges against the teenage masseur Lee were dropped. He recently claimed to have had sex with the undercover officers.
After years of drug and alcohol abuse, Kasir was found dead of an insulin overdose in 1990. Child protection campaigners who had been in contact with her claim she thought she was being watched shortly before her death.


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Dolphin Square, the Thames-side apartment complex reportedly frequented by senior politicians, is also being considered as part of the investigation into historical sex abuse

Neighbours said that police had set up an observation post by her final address because they suspected she was dealing drugs to children.
Now in early middle age, the young victim from Elm Guest House refuses to co-operate with new police inquiries. He has also declined to speak to the Mail.
The other significant players in this affair who are still alive are being interviewed by detectives as they attempt to ascertain the truth of the legend of the VIP paedophile ring at Rocks Lane.
Was there a cover-up? We now understand that the social worker present at the boy's interview in 1982 was later shown copies of the resulting police statement. What struck him most was what had been left out.
The man recalled that during the boy's testimony at Richmond Police Station, he had spoken of an abuser whom he called Uncle XXXXX'. This abuser worked at the big houses', the boy said.
As the boy talked, at least two of those officials present came to independent realisations of his testimony's significance.
If Uncle XXXXX' had done what was alleged, this was not just a sordid suburban scandal, but one of national importance.
Why? Because it had become clear to them that the boy was describing a prominent politician of the time. The Mail knows the identity of the politician, but cannot name him for legal reasons.
Yet no politician was ever charged or even questioned, as far as we know, and there is a simple reason for this.
When the same eyewitness to the boy's interview was later shown the child's police statement which should have been a verbatim account of all his allegations there was no mention of Uncle XXXXX' or the naïve reference to the Houses of Parliament. It had simply disappeared (if it were ever put to paper at all).
This troubled the social worker. It is now troubling senior figures at the Home Office. In fact it should trouble us all. What reason could there have been to sanitise' the child's statement?
A former senior Metropolitan Police detective offered this explanation last night: You have to remember there was a Cold War still going on. Allegations concerning a senior British politician would have been of great interest to the Kremlin.
For that reason, Special Branch and the security services would almost certainly have been aware of these claims, and might have had a hand in suppressing them.'
Many will think that is an Establishment cover-up by any other name.


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Oh dearie me, victim rigging?

Quote:Theresa May's child sexual abuse inquiry faces new storm

Two members of panel face calls to resign after being accused of sending insulting letters to victims who criticised inquiry

• Daniel Boffey, policy editor
  
• The Observer, Saturday 6 December 2014 20.00 GMT
  

Theresa May, the home secretary, has already apologised for delays in finding a chair for the abuse inquiry. Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters

Two members of Theresa May's panel inquiring into child sex abuse are facing calls to resign after being accused of sending threatening or insulting emails to victims who had criticised the inquiry.
Lawyers for one abuse survivor have written to the home secretary to complain of a string of unsolicited communications, including an allegedly threatening email sent two days before an official meeting that both panellists and an abuse survivor were due to attend.
The victim, who is on medication for post-traumatic stress disorder, was left too anxious to attend the "listening meeting" in November. The development will be a huge embarrassment to May, who has already seen two chairs to the inquiry stand down since it was launched in July, both over conflicts of interest. A source close to the inquiry's secretariat said the emails should not have been sent, leaving the fate of the panel members in doubt.
The inquiry has been set up to consider whether, and the extent to which, public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales from 1970 to the present day.
At a meeting on Friday between government officials and victims of abuse, survivors were told by the Home Office's director of safeguarding that the allegations against panel members were being examined by an unnamed QC. Survivors told officials they had "lost all confidence" in the inquiry as it was currently constituted.
Andrew Lavery, whose whistleblowing has led to a police investigation into abuse by monks at a Catholic boarding school in Scotland, has complained that he was left highly distressed after receiving an email from panel member Graham Wilmer.
A letter sent by Lavery's solicitors at Leigh Day claims that their client, who first had contact with Wilmer in 2013 through his charity, the Lantern Project, which offers help to abuse victims, "has received a number of unsolicited communications from Mr Wilmer following the end of their telephone contact".
The letter adds: "These have included repeated requests from Mr Wilmer asking Mr Lavery to get in contact with him. Mr Lavery has not responded to these requests. Mr Lavery's key concern is raised in relation to an email which he received from Mr Wilmer on 5 November 2014. This was sent following Mr Lavery's conversation on 5 November 2014 with a member of the child sex abuse inquiry secretariat about attending a meeting with the inquiry on 6 November. Mr Lavery regards the contents of the email to be threatening. Mr Lavery is of the belief that as a panel member, Mr Wilmer should not be contacting individual survivors in this manner. He was very distressed by the contents of the email and consequently did not feel comfortable about attending the meeting."
Wilmer, who was himself abused as a child, has denied that he intended the email to be threatening. His email, which has been seen by the Observer, suggests he was provoked into emailing Lavery by a social media row between a separate abuse victim and his adult son, Rory, who had sought to confront those who criticised his father's place on the panel.
In his email, which accuses his critics of "crossing the line", he writes: "I'm looking forward to meeting you on Friday. I've watched and listened to your media interviews over the past few days, and I've looked at all the Twitter feeds you and Ian [McFadyen] have pumped out. The insults you have issued about me, I have no problem with; you are entitled to your opinion. However, what has been said about my son, Rory, is a different matter."
Alison Millar, a lawyer for Leigh Day, told the Observer: "The panellist's private communications with our client, a man who is deeply traumatised by his experience of abuse, certainly seem ill-advised to us."
Lavery, who lives in Newcastle, said that he did not want Wilmer to be humiliated, but that he needed to stand down for the sake of the credibility of the inquiry.
Meanwhile, Peter McKelvie, a former child protection manager whose allegations led to the launch of the ongoing Operation Fernbridge police inquiry in 2012, has complained about an inappropriate email from a second panellist.
After McKelvie publicly raised questions about Barbara Hearn's appointment, she falsely accused him of posing as a female blogger who had been causing her distress.
McKelvie, 65, who has no presence on social media, said he would continue to call for Hearn's resignation because of her previous employment at the National Children's Bureau, where a leading member of the Paedophile Information Exchange, Peter Righton, worked as a consultant between 1972 and 1974.
McKelvie also highlighted a potential conflict of interest in Hearn's connections with social work managers from the Labour-controlled Islington council in north London, when there was widespread sexual abuse in children's homes. Hearn was appointed to the NCB in the 1990s by John Rea Price, who had been director of social services at Islington council.

This is what The Needle has to say on the matter:

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Signatory To Letter To The Home Secretary Sent Inappropriate Images To CSA Survivor.

It's really sad to see survivor attacking survivor.
But sadly it happens.
I think we're seeing it more right now because the CSA Inquiry appears stalled.
Anything I publish is only in response to media manoeuvres by others.
Right now I'm responding to this story, just published, in The Guardian HERE
I've known this from the moment I saw the list of signatories in the letter to the Home Secretary a few days ago but it was only earlier today that the survivor contacted me herself and we discussed it. The original letter including all the signatories can be found HERE
The female survivor of child sexual abuse, currently a witness in a criminal investigation connected to a prominent police operation, received this unsolicited contact via email and it contained inappropriate images of young girls in bondage. The survivor made a complaint to the police at the time about 18 months ago and contacted me about it at the time.
It's not for me to say anything more than that other than that the survivor has indicated to me that she will make the complaint once again given the prominent role that this person has assumed.
I'd prefer this to stop. I'd prefer it if otherwise good people weren't attacked but just so we're clear, if it continues then so will I. Every action will have an equal and opposite reaction.
This is only undermining the case for all survivors.

The letter concerned:

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An open letter to Theresa May demanding a fit for purpose' child abuse inquiry

Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF

Dear Theresa May

As survivors and associated professionals, we were very much hoping to take up the invitations to engage with your Ministerial Officers to discuss the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry but we regret to say we have to decline. We, alongside many survivors, have made numerous representations to you regarding our view that the Inquiry as it stands is not fit for purpose. Its Terms of Reference (ToR) are inadequate for delivering the original declared intentions of the inquiry, namely to investigate government and establishment cover ups of paedophiles in their ranks and aiding bringing the perpetrators to justice.

Secondly, both your appointees to Head the Inquiry Panel have had to be forced out by survivors because of obvious conflicts of interest, and you have failed to address similar issues regarding other Panel appointees.

Thirdly, that the cut-off date for the Inquiry investigations was set at 1970 is highly disturbing given that the 1969 Children's Act transferred Home Office run youth establishments, from which thousands of abuse allegations eventually emerged. It highlights the lack of transparency regarding the Home Office's dealings with the Inquiry, not to mention the apparent obfuscations and manipulations in the defence of the appointment of Fiona Woolf. As a result, the Home Office seems to be running the Inquiry to meet others' needs rather than those of survivors and the public.
We therefore have little option but to end engagement with the Inquiry and call on other survivors, whistleblowers, associated professionals and agencies to follow suit until, as Home Secretary, you:
announce the scrapping of the current panel and its replacement on a transparent basis
declare a statutory inquiry
announce that the TOR will focus on: 1) Organised & Institutional Abuse hearing evidence from survivors of such abuse 2) Extending the cut-off date to 1945 and linking with Inquiries in other parts of the UK 3) Setting up a dedicated police team at the National Crime Agency to take evidence alongside the inquiry to investigate and prosecute offenders 4) Holding those that have failed in their professional duty or covered up allegations or been obstructive to account.

Yours faithfully

Andy Kershaw and Tony Martin (Survivors of Forde Park)
Bobby Martin, Gang Intervention Advisor & Islington Care Home Survivor
Luke Payne, Child Trafficking Survivor.
Nigel O'Mara, Former Survivors' Helpline Counsellor/ Public Relations Officer
Caroline Carnot, Author & Founding Executive Care Leavers Association
Peter McKelvie, Whistleblower and former child protection worker
Dr Liz Davies, Reader in Child Protection, London Metropolitan University
Ruth Stark MBE, President International Federation of Social Workers
Ann Davis, Emeritus Professor of Social Work and Mental Health, University of Birmingham
Phil Frampton (Founding Chair, Care Leavers Association 2000-04)
Stephen Morris, Church of England Children's Society Careleaver
Brian Douieb, Former Leaving Care Social Work Manager
Les Huckfield MP for Nuneaton 1967-83. MEP for Merseyside East 1984-89
Dr Kenneth McIntyre, CPsychol, AFBPsS
Dr Paul Redgrave, Director of Public Health, Barnsley 2004-09
Ed Nixon, Chief Executive, Family Care Associates
Anne Southworth, Senior National Education Specialist (Audit Commission) Retired
Dr Rachel Chapple, Social Anthropologist, Founder, Real Stories Gallery Foundation
Councillor Ann Kerrigan
Ann Mallaby, Justice Campaigner
Andrea Enisuoh, Community Organiser, Hackney Unites
Miriam Day, Writer and survivor of childhood sexual abuse
Robert Chewter, Campaigner