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Tom Watson's letter to Theresa May (19.4.13)


April 19, 2013


Geoffrey Dickens, Operation Fernbridge, PIE (Paedophile Information Exchange)


I've been sent a copy of Tom Watson's latest letter to Theresa May asking for the whereabouts of Geoffrey Dickens' child abuse dossiers that were given to Leon Brittan in 1983/84. The Home Office have had almost 2 months to respond to Tom Watson's original request, and have so far come up with nothing. Perhaps the government think people are going to forget about this…


The November 1983 dossier contained information about a connection between the Paedophile Information Exchange and Buckingham Palace staff. Operation Fernbridge are currently investigating the Elm Guest House paedophile ring which is thought to have involved members of Buckingham Palace staff.


The January 1984 dossier contained information about sexual assaults at a children's home, and also named prominent paedophiles including a television executive. Could the children's home have been Richmond Council's Grafton Close home, which supplied boys as young as 10 to be abused by paedophiles at Elm Guest House?

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Quote:PIE MEMBERS UPDATED 28 Feb 2013To coincide with Ratzingers final day as Pope, I'd like to dedicate this list of names.
(A few names without a supporting link- so if anyone has info, please could they add it.)


1. Thomas Victor O'Carroll (ex-chairman) (aka Carl Tom)
Founder (From Warwickshire but dual Irish/British national moved to Leam Street, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire in 1972. Moved to Shildon, County Durham after P.I.E. disbanded. born circa 1945) Also helped run P.I.E.s successor, The International paedophile Child Emancipation Group and a subsidiary, Gentlemen Without an Interesting Name. In 1977 was press officer for the Open University.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/5367968.stm


2. Charles Napier
(retired language teacher with links to Peter Righton)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...-could-1430365


3. Peter Righton (deceased) (aka Paul Pelham)
Co founder one time treasurer (one of Britain's leading child protection specialists)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...-could-1430365


4. Steven Adrian Smith (Chairman 1979-85)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=3818,2889704


Steven Freeman (aka Steven Smith)
(Former Home Office security guard from Catford used name Steven Adrian born circa 1954)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14169406
http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/...landmark_case/


5. Peter Bremner (aka Roger Nash)
born circa 1940 several papers name a David Bremner but I think it's the same person.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=3818,2889704


6. David Wade (treasurer)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=5485,2777227


7. Sir Peter Hayman (deceased) (aka Peter Henderson)
former UK envoy to Canada.
Paedophile Information Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Paedophile Information Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


8. Michael Hanson (first chairman)
http://books.google.co.uk/books/abou...AJ&redir_esc=y


9. Ian Campbell Dunn (deceased)
Wikipedia (Thumbnails)


Wikipedia (Thumbnails)


10. David Joy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ollection.html


11. Dr Edward Brongersma (deceased)
http://newgon.com/wiki/Paedophile_Information_Exchange


12. Keith Hose (chairman 1975)
Paedophile Information Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Paedophile Information Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


13. Warren Middleton (aka John Parratt)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ren-raped.html


14. Geoffrey Prime
Geoffrey Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Geoffrey Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


15. Barry Cutler
(from Porchester Mead, Beckenham born circa 1951)
http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/...landmark_case/


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/ju...abuse-drawings


16. Leo Adamson
(from Cricketers Court, Vauxhall born circa 1962)
http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/...landmark_case/


17. John Morrison
(from Upper Richmond Road, Putney born circa 1967)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13375429


18. Michael Dagnall
http://exitinterview.biz/rarities/pan/n8/pan8txt.htm


19. Tony Zalewski - European rep -Named in Daily Express, 26th August 1983


20. Lee Edwards - Named in Daily Express, 26th August 1983


21. Bernard Haunch
Former teacher
http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news...c_sex_attacks/


22. Jimmy Savile - M Murrins information and letter to QEII,Patten etc
http://tpuc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=57875#p315663


23. Richard Travell
http://exitinterview.biz/rarities/pan/n17/pan17txt.htm


24. Richard Morris Clive Bigham
Eldest son Viscount of Mersey
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...exchange&hl=en


25. Stephen King (aka Stephen Gosling)
lectured to various criminal justice conferences at which the Met Police, the CPS, the Probation Service
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...rls-abuse.html


26. Michael John De Clere Studdert
(former Chaplain at Crowthorn School, Hampshire from Churt Road, Hindhead born circa 1939) Had largest know child porn collection ever found in UK in a secret vault on his 17 acre country estate. Heavily involved in charity.
http://content.met.police.uk/News/Me.../1257246745756


27. Alan John Doggett (1936-1978), conductor, composer and choir master. Leader of London Boys Choir
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/conten...00003/art00002


28. CJ Bradbury Robinson - writer Magpie
http://www.cjbr.co.uk/Content/N2.htm
http://www.librarything.com/author/robinsoncjbradbury


29. Richard James - writer Magpie


30. Paul Green - writer Magpie


31. David Blomfield


32. Dr Morris Fraser - BBC Kaleidoscope


("The form of the child-adult encounter, so very often idealized by writers, is almost too painfully authentic here, too horribly real - yet depicted so beautifully. The Lost Boys has that rare virtue of blending truth with exquisite taste and perception.")
http://www.anno.co.uk/Lost_Boys_TV_reviews.htm


33. David Grove - born 1904 - secretary of PIE
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2kT...=sharing&pli=1


34. Michael Walker - London




PRO PIE - no positive ID membership of PIE
Nicholas Ferguson
Bill Thornycroft
Terry Waller
Ian Harvey
Tony Deane
Nicky Burbidge
Keith Spence
Rictor Norton


Sources:
http://tl.gd/kp8d70 ·
http://ukpaedos-exposed.com/paedophi...members/p-i-e/
http://whatcanidoaboutit.wordpress.c...r-pie-research
Kaz list
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2kT...=sharing&pli=1

Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Let's look at how Henley presents Tom O'Carroll, former Chair of the Paedophile Information Exchange and convicted child abuse imagery peddler:

Quote:Some academics do not dispute the view of Tom O'Carroll, a former chairman of PIE and tireless paedophilia advocate with a conviction for distributing indecent photographs of children following a sting operation, that society's outrage at paedophilic relationships is essentially emotional, irrational, and not justified by science. "It is the quality of the relationship that matters," O'Carroll insists. "If there's no bullying, no coercion, no abuse of power, if the child enters into the relationship voluntarily … the evidence shows there need be no harm."

Now let's look at O'Carroll in his own words:

Quote:In 1980 O'Carroll's book Paedophilia: The Radical Case was published, in which he advocates the normalization of some adult-child sexual relationships. In the book, O'Carroll states his belief that each stage of the sexual relationship between an adult and child can be 'negotiated', with "hints and signals, verbal and non-verbal, by which each indicates to the other what is acceptable and what is not... the man might start by saying what pretty knickers the girl was wearing, and he would be far more likely to proceed to the next stage of negotiation if she seemed pleased by the remark."

So an adult man tells a girl she's wearing pretty knickers as part of a "negotiation" towards a sexual relationship with that child.

And Henley holds that O'Carroll's views are worthy of serious academic and public consideration.

Now let's examine Henley's claim about O'Carroll falling foul of a "police undercover sting", which makes it look like O'Carroll was set up.

Here's the Met Police press release:

Quote:Men jailed for making and distributing indecent images of children

20 December 2006


A high-profile paedophile activist and a man who possessed the widest range of abusive material known to the Met have today been sentenced to imprisonment at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court.

Thomas Victor O'Carroll was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment and will be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.


"The guilty pleas of O'Carroll and Studdert are an example of how patience, tenacity and the commitment of the Met's Paedophile Unit paid dividends in this investigation"

Michael John De Clare Studdert was sentenced to four years imprisonment for making and downloading indecent images, two years for distributing indecent images and three years for possession of indecent images. All sentences are to run concurrently. The judge ordered that he be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life and he is also subject of a Sex Offences Prevention Order, which prohibits him from owning a computer or machinery, which allows him access to the Internet.

61-year-old Thomas Victor O'Carroll, an out of work journalist and 67-year-old Michael John De Clare, a retired Anglican minister, were arrested in January 2006 after the Met's Paedophile Unit conducted a series of co-ordinated searches and arrests.

O'Carroll is a high-profile activist who has campaigned to legitimise certain aspects of paedophilia and was the chairman of the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) in the UK. He has latterly been a member of the International Paedophile Child Emancipation forum (IPCE).

The purpose of IPCE is to promote 'scholarly discussion' with the aim of changing legislation to decriminalise aspects of child abuse. The operation also disrupted IPCE, whose members are predominantly in mainland Europe, but also extend around the globe.

The arrests of O'Carroll and Studdert were the result of a lengthy covert operation by the Met's Paedophile Unit, codenamed Glenlivet, which commenced in the summer of 2002. In the summer of 2005, O'Carroll travelled from his then home in Shildon, County Durham to visit Studdert, an associate who was at that time living in Hindhead, Surrey.

O'Carroll collected a cache of indecent material of children from Studdert, which he had left there for safekeeping, and then drove to another part of the country to give the material to another associate. Unbeknown to O'Carroll, the other associate was an undercover police officer.

During the arrest phase of the operation, a search of Studdert's extensive country home, and some 17 acres of grounds, uncovered two highly sophisticated hidden compartments within his bathroom One was hidden behind a false wall by the bath and the other was hidden in the eves of the house and accessed by a secret door opposite the toilet. The 'hides' contained a massive hoard of indecent images of children, believed to be his lifetime's collection, with images from the 1950's to modern day in a variety of formats.

The formats included videos, photographic slides, cine films, photographs, magazines and photographic negatives. In terms of formats it was the widest ranging personal collection of abusive material known to the Metropolitan Police Service ever attributed to one person.

On 21 September 2006, O'Carroll pleaded guilty to three charges and Studdert pleaded guilty to twenty-six charges of possession, making and distribution of indecent images of children and both appeared at court today in custody.

The Senior Investigating Officer on the case, Acting Detective Chief Inspector Neil Thompson of the Met's Paedophile Unit said:

"The guilty pleas of O'Carroll and Studdert are an example of how patience, tenacity and the commitment of the Met's Paedophile Unit paid dividends in this investigation. O'Carroll and Studdert posed a risk to children both in the UK and abroad and today's sentencing will ensure that further children are safeguarded against such prolific paedophiles."

A police "sting"?

I can think of few police investigations which are more prima facie laudable than this one.

To be specific, the material seized is not "child pornography", a wholly misleading and inappropriate term. The material seized represented a lifetime of abuse of hundreds, possibly thousands of children:

During the arrest phase of the operation, a search of Studdert's extensive country home, and some 17 acres of grounds, uncovered two highly sophisticated hidden compartments within his bathroom One was hidden behind a false wall by the bath and the other was hidden in the eves of the house and accessed by a secret door opposite the toilet. The 'hides' contained a massive hoard of indecent images of children, believed to be his lifetime's collection, with images from the 1950's to modern day in a variety of formats.

The formats included videos, photographic slides, cine films, photographs, magazines and photographic negatives. In terms of formats it was the widest ranging personal collection of abusive material known to the Metropolitan Police Service ever attributed to one person.

The Guardian allows Henley to present O'Carroll and the pro-paedophile advocates as legitimate researchers...

NEVER ENDING SHAME.

I note, with a complete absence of surprise, that O'Carroll's partner in crime was, yet again, a man of the cloth.

Jan Klimkowski Wrote:The reality of Power.

Geoffrey Dickens MP was the scourge of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

This is from Hansard, the official transcript of Britain's Parliament

Quote:HC Deb 15 November 1982 vol 32 cc18-9W19W

§Mr. Dickens
asked the Prime Minister whether Geoffrey Arthur Prime's membership of the Paedophile Information Exchange organisation was brought to the attention of the police or security agencies.


§The Prime Minister
I understand that stories that the police found documents in Prime's house or garage indicating that he was a member of the paedophile information exchange are without foundation, and that nothing has been discovered to suggest that he was.

So, official denial from Thatcher.

Oops, here's the Daily Telegraph....

Quote:Traitor Prime free after 19 years' jail

By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
12:00AM GMT 14 Mar 2001

THE traitor and paedophile Geoffrey Prime was released from prison on parole yesterday after serving half his 38-year sentence for betraying secrets to the KGB.

Prime, 62, who worked for the GCHQ intelligence-gathering centre in Cheltenham, was jailed in 1982. He would have been freed automatically two thirds of the way through his sentence in 2007, but prisoners are entitled to parole after serving half of their sentence if they show remorse.

Prime's freedom was agreed by the Parole Board after consultations between GCHQ and the Home Office. Officials judged that he was no longer a risk to national security. Prime was released from Rochester jail at 7am.

He started working for the KGB in 1968 while on RAF intelligence duties in West Berlin. It is thought that the Soviets learned of his paedophile activities and blackmailed him. He was persuaded to take a posting as a translator at GCHQ, where he had access to top secret codes and military frequencies.

He passed information to the KGB during regular visits to Vienna. The Soviet Union used his material to transmit dummy messages while real secrets were broadcast under different codes or sent by diplomatic bag.

His treachery is believed to have compromised Nato's contingency plans for defending Western Europe in the event of war. Moscow paid him a total of £8,000 before he was unmasked.

Prime was also a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange and had a card index of 2,287 young girls whom he targeted by phone. He will be placed on the sex offenders' register and is expected to live in a Probation Service hostel.

Jan Klimkowski Wrote:

Jan Klimkowski Wrote:OK - the following article claims that Savile was a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

The sources are not disclosed. However, I'm sure the membership list is a highly guarded secret.

If it's true that Savile was a member of PIE, then his crimes have been known for decades.

The PIE membership list would have been known to Special Branch and to British intelligence, and presumably also to the BBC's Man in the Mac, the SIS liaison.

Quote:Savile member of the Paedophile Information Exchange an Organisation which campaigned for the abolition of the age of consent in the UK

October 18, 2012


NEWS RELEASE

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is embroiled in a child sex scandal centred on Jimmy Savile, its anchorman on many popular entertainment shows for over thirty years. Now new information is surfacing which indicates that Jimmy Savile was a fully paid up member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (P.I.E) - an organisation which campaigned for the abolition of the age of consent in the UK.

The letter below has been sent to Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust. In it I have stated "I am placing this information before you in this open letter as I feel that the BBC should now initiate a full investigation into these reports suggesting that during the 1970's and early 1980's the BBC's editorial policy was influenced in favour of P.I.E. This alleged infiltration of the BBC by P.I.E might also explain how Savile was able to operate as a sexual predator during his extended tenure at the BBC without challenge and/or prosecution."

I will pursue my objective of securing a full investigation into the alleged membership of Jimmy Savile of the organisation, P.I.E. I will also continue to seek a full and open investigation of the influence, if any, that P.I.E exerted on BBC editorial policy during the 1970′s and 1980′s. I also expect the authorities to investigate whether any BBC employees were members of P.I.E or expressed sympathy and support for the aims and objectives of P.I.E.

Further links are set out at the bottom of this email.

MICHAEL .H. MURRIN

21 GOODWOOD AVENUE. PRESTON. PR2 9TZ

TELE: 0795 142 6617

murrin@hotmail.co.uk

Lord Patten
Chairman
The British Broadcasting Association Trust
The BBC Trust Unit
180 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 5QZ

12th October 2012.

Dear Lord Patten,

RE: BBC / Jimmy Savile.

This is an open letter, i.e. I do not regard it as confidential and reserve the right to publish it. There are some parts of it in italics, these sections I do regard as confidential and, as such, they will not be published.

During 1982 I initiated an investigation into corruption in public life which resulted in the criminal prosecution of some high profile figures for offences against children, including serial child rape.

PARAGRAPH DELETED.

I turn now to the reason for my writing to you at this point.

My investigation led me to the fringes of the Paedophile Information Exchange (P.I.E), an organisation whose history is a matter of public record. The organisation was founded during October 1974 and officially disbanded during 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedophile_Information_Exchange

Due to a lack of financial support my investigation into PIE was severely limited although I did secure two names on the membership list of the organisation, one was Jimmy Savile. One of the key aims of the organisation was to secure a reduction of the age of consent in the UK to FIVE and then abolish it altogether. The organisation secured significant support within parliament, the entertainment industry, the media and similar, professional, organisations. It was reported that, when the organisation was finally closed down, the membership list was found to contain the names of nationally known politicians, entertainers and people engaged in professions, including the medical and legal profession. Some teachers were, I believe, also found to be registered members. The quality and influential nature of its membership and the extent of support for the aims of the organisation among opinion formers' probably explains how it managed to remain in existence in this country for a decade before it was finally closed down. My investigations did clearly indicate that the tentacles of P.I.E extended deep into the establishment including the BBC and Parliament.

This quote from the book Paedophilia The Radical Case (Chapter 11) gives an indication of just how far the tentacles of P.I.E had spread and how influential the organisation had become.

"One outcome of the MIND conference was the suggestion to Keith that PIE should submit evidence to the Home Office Criminal Law Revision Committee on the age of consent. With amazing despatch Keith did exactly this, preparing and submitting the seventeen-page document discussed in Chapter 6 in a matter of weeks, without the benefit of research time or facilities at his disposal. What's more, we have it on reliable authority that his work caught the imagination of no less a figure than the Home Secretary of the time, Roy Jenkins."

The source who notified me that Savile was a fully paid up member of the organisation is extremely reliable. Other sources implied that Savile's membership of P.I.E was known to others within the BBC who were either sympathetic to its objectives or were members themselves. This might explain why there appeared to be no effective pursuit of the organisation by BBC sponsored current affairs and investigative programmes during that period of P.I.E's existence.

I am placing this information before you in this open letter (except for the parts in ITALICS) as I feel that the BBC should now initiate a full investigation into theses reports suggesting that during the 1970's and early 1980's the BBC's editorial policy was influenced in favour of P.I.E. This alleged infiltration of the BBC by P.I.E might also explain how Savile was able to operate as a sexual predator during his extended tenure at the BBC without challenge and/or prosecution.

It has been reported that Savile was responsible for the sexual assault of a brain damaged child at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. It has been stated "it can get no lower than this." I beg to differ. My understanding is that the archive at New Scotland Yard hold an image of the youngest child recorded as being sexually abused, the child was female and was still attached to its mother by the umbilical cord. Perhaps there is some way to go before we reach the bottom of this "cesspit?"

I do expect and formal and comprehensive response from you within a reasonable time period. A copy of this letter has been forward to The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Mr Bernard Hogan-Howe.

Yours sincerely,

Michael H. Murrin

Michael Murrin turns out to be a very well connected individual with a fascinating past.

See Lobster here.

The most horrible of games is being played with the lives of children.

Savile is not the prime target.

So, who is the target?

The BBC?

A group of politicians?

And who is considered so important that they are being protected at all costs?

Quote:How a paedophile murder inquiry fell apart (October 2000)

April 22, 2013
Bristol, International Paedophile Networks
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The Guardian, October 2000
by Nick Davies


A year after Bristol police finally started to unravel the ring of paedophiles in the city who had been abusing children for up to twenty years, they came across an informant who opened up a new and alarming line of inquiry.


The man, who himself had a long history of sexually abusing boys, told them that the paedophiles they were investigating had been spending a lot of time in Amsterdam, where they had become involved with a group of exiled British child abusers who had succeeded in commercialising their sexual obsession. They were trafficking boys from other countries; running legitimate gay brothels and selling the under-aged boys under the counter' and through escort agencies; they had branched out into the production of hard-core child pornography. And they had killed some of them.


One boy had simply been shot through the head, the informant said: he had been causing trouble and had been executed in front of several paedophiles in the basement of a club in the city centre. Another, about whom he knew very little, he believed had been thrown into one of the canals. But the one about whom he spoke the most the one who seemed to haunt him was a boy who had been tortured and killed in the most painful and bloody fashion in the course of producing a pornographic video. The informant said he had seen most of the video himself. He said he had vomited before he could reach the end.


The few detectives in Europe and North America who specialise in the investigation of child abuse, invariably say the same thing about 'snuff movies': they have often heard of them, sometimes pursued them but never found one. The videos remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of the burgeoning underworld of international sexual exploitation. The Bristol informant's account was so hideous as to invite disbelief. It was clearly possible that the man was simply inventing the story in an attempt to curry favour with the detectives as they turned over the paedophile culture of the city. And yet, the detectives soon found themselves taking the story seriously, because they discovered that the allegation had been made before. Not just once but repeatedly, evidence of one kind or another had come to the attention of police in England and Holland, indicating that, for their pleasure and their profit, some of the British paedophiles in Amsterdam had murdered boys in front of the camera.


Some of the evidence had been pursued, sometimes with vigour. Some of it had been ignored. None of it had led to a murder charge. For a short while, the Bristol detectives thought they might be able finally to make some progress in tracking down the truth, but when two of them flew to Amsterdam in the autumn of 1998 to pass on their information to Dutch officers, they hit a wall. The Bristol informant had described the flat in Amsterdam where he had seen the video; he had named the owner of the flat who was, by implication, also the owner of the video; he had provided the name and job of the man who carried out the killing; he had described events on the video in grim detail; he had provided the rough age and the first name of the dead boy. The Dutch officers said it was not enough: without the full name of a victim, they would not begin an investigation.


Having fought their way through the swamp of inertia which surrounds the British policing and prosecution of child abuse, the Bristol detectives had now hit the even deeper swamp of virtual paralysis that afflicts the international policing of paedophilia. Within their own jurisdictions, there are now specialist paedophilia detectives for example, in both London and Amsterdam who will work relentlessly to lock up predatory child abusers. But when they try to move abroad, this potentially powerful machine starts to misfire.


The result as the Guardian has found by going into the paedophile scene in Amsterdam and Berlin is that there is now a flourishing underground trade in boys who are being exported from the economic chaos of Eastern Europe, as well as from the streets of London, to be put to work in the sex industry of Western Europe, particularly Holland. And there is no effective police operation to deal with it. Quite simply: predatory paedophiles glibly cross whatever borders they like in order to pursue their obsessions; the police who might follow them are almost always trapped within their own narrow jurisdictions, partly by differences in law and procedure, partly by sheer institutional frailty, because they lack the manpower and the money to work internationally. There is an exception to this rule of parochialism in the highly funded war against drugs but in the perverse world of modern policing, the trafficking, rape and alleged murder of children has a far lower priority.


After speaking to paedophiles and their victims and to police and social workers in Britain, Holland and Germany, we have uncovered the inner workings of an international paedophile ring. Its roots spring from Amsterdam, where, in the late 1980s, a group of exiled British paedophiles set up a colony. Taking advantage of Dutch tolerance towards sexual behaviour, they exploited the freedom of the gay community in the city as cover to enact their fantasies and to make money from them. One of the first to do so was Alan Williams, the Welsh Witch', who already had a vicious history of abusing boys in south Wales.


Williams arrived in Amsterdam in 1988, aged 21, and soon set himself up as the manager of a gay brothel called Boys Club 21 on the first floor of 21 Spuistraat, near the central station. Across the road at number 44, another British paedophile, a chubby Londoner named Warwick Spinks, then aged 25, was running a similar club called the Gay Palace. Both clubs had a perfectly legal business, running a bar and offering the services of adult male prostitutes who could take customers upstairs to bedrooms. But Williams and Spinks had much wider and crueller interests.


Williams had fled to Holland after being convicted in Britain of indecent assaults on boys. In Amsterdam, he boasted of the day in South Wales when he had seen a ten-year-old boy on his bike, wanted him, grabbed him, raped him and, when he cried, strangled him to death. He liked to show people the video of himself as a teenager in Young Boys Pissing. From Boys Clubs 21, he organised the importing of boys from Cardiff and London, inflicting intense violence on any who defied him. Paul Conibeer, from Cardiff, who eventually managed to run away told us: "He put a contract on me. They were going to put a bullet in my head. Two of my mates came up with black eyes and warned me. I hid in this cafe they were ripping people out, looking for me."


Spinks, who has described himself as "an international slut", had been running a mail-order pornography business from Brighton, East Sussex, before he moved to Amsterdam, where he pioneered the trafficking of boys as young as ten years old into the city's sex industry. He brought homeless boys from the streets of London and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, fanned out across Europe importing vulnerable chicken', as he liked to call them, from the poverty of East Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Having got them to Amsterdam, he used them himself, sold them into the brothels or through escort agencies and put them in front of the camera. Some resisted, some ran away most were made to comply with the removal of their passports and regular doses of drugs and violence.


By 1990, these two clubs on Spuistraat together with Boys for Men, De Boys, the Blue Boy and the Why Not had become the busiest watering hole in the international paedophile jungle. Dutch police at the time estimated there were 250 paedophiles involved in the production of child pornography in Amsterdam with an unknown floating population of child sex tourists from all over the world. A Swiss businessman, for example, was caught in the city with handcuffs, a gag and a large suitcase with airholes in the side; police found a video of him abusing two young girls with electrodes. A wealthy New York attorney was caught ferrying child pornography from Asia. But it was the British who formed the hard core of the new industry: Stephen Smith, who had helped to found the Paedophile Information Exchange, fled there to avoid imprisonment in England; Russell Tricker, now aged 58, a former private school teacher who was convicted of child-sex offences in the UK, moved to Amsterdam, where he used his job as a coach-driver to ferry suitable boys from London; Tricker's friend, John Broomhall, opened a porn shop on Spuistraat and was caught with more than a thousand copies of videos of under-aged boys; Mark Enfield, now aged 41, sold a video of himself abusing a drugged boy; Andrew Prichodsky, now aged 50, jumped bail in England on the eve of his third trial for child sex offences.


Alan Williams introduced two paedophile friends from Wales, John Gay and Lee Tucker, both of whom were to become central targets for the Bristol detectives. The two men found they could sell Welsh boys into the clubs on Spuistraat at £120 a time and then make more money by investing in the booming business of child pornography. They borrowed money from a paedophile lorry driver in Bristol, bought state-of-the-art video equipment, set up TAG Films, and visited Amsterdam regularly to make porn films, which they sold through distributors in the United States and Germany. At the time, Dutch law said nothing about the possession of child pornography and punished its production with a maximum sentence of only three months.


By October 1990, detectives on the old Obscene Publications Squad at Scotland Yard were picking up worrying signals. An informant told them that someone called Alan Williams was trafficking boys into Amsterdam and that Wiiliams had asked him to smuggle a child porn video back into the UK. Soon afterwards, another informant told how he had smuggled a dozen tapes in the opposite direction: they had been produced, he believed, in a house in North London, which was equipped with a bondage room for boys. He had delivered the tapes in Amsterdam to Boys Club 21, to Alan from Cardiff'. While he was there, this informant said, he had visited the Gay Palace across the road, where he had watched videos of boys in bondage, aged 11 to 14 years old, being buggered by masked men.


Soon, other informants were offering more detail each new fragment of the picture a little more alarming than the last. One man, who was close to Alan Williams, said he had seen Warwick Spinks selling a special video for £4,000. It showed a boy whom he thought was only eight or nine years old being sexually abused and tortured by two men. But the most startling allegations came from a gay man, Frank, who had gone to Amsterdam in July 1990 and found himself caught up in this paedophile underworld. In 1993, he spoke to the same officers at Scotland Yard.


Frank told how he had met Alan Williams and seen him arguing with a boy from Rotherham who was owed money for four punters he had serviced in Boys Club 21. Williams had offered to pay him in cocaine but refused to pay him in cash and, when the boy had grabbed him and pushed him up against a fruit machine, the club's security man had thrown the boy out of a first-floor window, breaking his leg. Frank told police of Warwick Spinks' monthly trips to Berlin, often accompanied by compliant boys from Amsterdam who would persuade reluctant recruits that the clubs in Spuistrat would give them a good life with all the cash and drugs they could use. Spinks told Frank that if he saw a boy who was really cute, he would simply snatch him: "Spinks liked to pay them in drugs, coke and E and speed or even smack. He said it would help him if they got hooked." He recalled, too, how he had met John Gay and Lee Tucker operating as a camera crew for child pornography.


One day, Frank said, Spinks invited him to come on a trip to the Canaries, delivering three kilos of grass to an old English gangster who had retired there. Frank went and that evening, in the gangster's bar, Spinks had suggested he should help him sell videos and offered to show him a sample. Frank said he watched in growing horror as the video played out a murder a boy who seemed to be no older than twelve years old was being beaten and attacked with needles, before being castrated and cut open with a knife. The video seemed to have been shot in a barn in what looked like Dutch countryside, and detectives later learned that Williams and his friends had been talking about making a video in a barn that belonged to a German from one of the Spuistraat clubs.


Scotland Yard were in a difficult position: their informants were British and so was Warwick Spinks, who by this time had left Amsterdam and was living in Hastings, East Sussex; but everything else in the story was scattered round Europe a video made in Holland but shown in Spain with an alleged perpetrator who was German and a victim of unknown nationality. Still the allegation supported by the earlier fragments of intelligence demanded action.


After long negotiations within Scotland Yard and with their counterparts in Holland, the detectives set up Operation Framework and, as the Guardian reported in 1997, they recruited a specialist undercover officer to pose as a child abuser and to befriend Warwick Spinks in England. Over a series of meetings, Spinks took the bate and started to boast about his activities: "I am good at picking up stray chickens… I have been all over the world, I'm an international slut." He described how he picked up boys in Dresden, in Bratislava in the Czech Republic, and in Poland where, he claimed, they cost only ten pence. "All those chickens with no money, " he chuckled. In London, he said he was particularly keen on the hamburger bars around Picadilly Circus. And he was full of excitement about Hastings. "The chickens down the coast are very bored, they have got no money, they are not streetwise like Londoners and they spend all of their time in arcades… "


The undercover officer asked Spinks if he could get him a sado-masochistic video featuring boys as young as ten, and Spinks replied that he knew people in Amsterdam who could. The officer went on to claim that some friends of his had been offered a snuff movie, in which someone was tortured to death, for £6,000. Spinks spoke with the voice of an expert.


"They're not six grand," he said. "I know, well I knew some people who were involved in making snuff movies and how they did it was, they only sold them in limited editions, made ten copies or something, ten very rich customers in America, who paid $5,000 each or something like that which is a lot of money to watch some kids being snuffed. I mean, I steer a wide berth from those people. I know somebody who was in a snuff movie and somebody got snuffed in front of him and he never knew it was a snuff movie. They had tied him up and done terrible things to him and killed him."


"Did they?" asked the officer.


"And he has been really petrified since, because he was like from Birmingham, middle 20s… I know the person who made the film. I felt sorry for this boy, it was a German boy."


"How old?" asked the officer.


"About 13, 15. He thought he was going to make 200 guilders and ended up being dead."


But Operation Framework ended in frustration. Spinks divulged no more about the video and failed to produce a copy of it. Without more evidence, the detectives could not justify the expense of keeping the undercover officer or of sending officers to Amsterdam, where, in any event, they lacked police powers. The Scotland Yard detectives arrested Spinks in Hastings and charged him with adbucting and raping two homeless boys from the streets of London and selling one of them into a Spuistraat brothel. In February 1995, he was jailed at Lewes Crown Court for seven years, reduced on appeal to five.


But the allegation of murder would not go away. As The Guardian reported in 1997, another gay man, Edward, a friend of Frank's, spoke of his experience of the British paedophiles in Amsterdam. He, too, had mixed with Spinks and Williams and their friends and he claimed to have seen five videos, each featuring the sexual torture and death of a boy. He said their bodies had been dumped in a lake. The Dutch police investigated and said they could no find no evidence to support the claims.


Now, the Bristol detectives have come up with their own informant who has offered yet more evidence. He, too, described the same cauldron of commercialised child abuse, bubbling around Spuistraat. He explained how John Gay and Lee Tucker set themselves up as video pornographers, first taking a group of boys by minivan to an isolated farmhouse in France, and then making visits to Amsterdam to film with the boys there. And he told how, in 1989, he had been alone in a flat which belonged to one of the key figures in the Amsterdam paedophile scene, whom he named; he had found a video and played it and watched in horror as it played out a murder a boy who was being buggered and beaten before being castrated and cut open with a knife.


At first sight, this informant was describing the same video as the one which Frank saw in the Canaries, and yet its details differ: Frank described a video shot in a barn; the Bristol informant says it was shot in a flat. Frank described the abuse and murder of one boy; the Bristol informant says there was a second boy, who was also being abused and who was still alive at the point when he turned off the tape. And yet, the overlap is striking: the specific nature of the violence is unusual and identical; and the Bristol informant names the man who actually committed the killing he is the same German whose barn was allegedly picked as a porn studio by the ring of child porngraphers.


Frank and the Bristol informant were certainly involved with the paedophile colony in Amsterdam. So, too, were Spinks and Edward. All four of them were there in 1989/90 and all four separately claim that at least one boy was killed on video. Spinks told the undercover officer that a German boy was killed; Frank says that two Germans disappeared as well as an American; Franks says that Spinks once hinted to him that a German boy named Manny had been murdered; one of the English boys told Operation Framework that a German boy named Manny had gone missing; we have confirmed from talking to boys who worked in Spuistraat at that time that a boy of that name and nationality, then aged 14, disappeared after being caught breaking into a gaming machine at one of the clubs.


The Bristol informant, however, says he thinks the victim of the video which he saw was Dutch, named Marco and probably aged 16. At one end of the scale of possibility, every one of these men may be lying in an attempt to score favours with the police or to cause trouble for other men on the Amsterdam scene, and certainly it was not unusal for boys to disappear from Spuistraat simply because they had had enough of being exploited and ran away. At the other end of the scale, the truth is that one or more boys was killed in a paedophile snuff movie and the murderers have got away with it. As Spinks told the undercover officer: "I know I'm a fat old queen, but I get away with it. I get away with murder."


The Bristol detectives can get no further. The Dutch say they will not investigate, and Avon and Somerset police have neither the funds nor the legal power to run their own inquiry in Holland. They have been frustrated not only in their attempt to pursue the allegation of murder but also in relation to a separate statement from one of the Welsh boy victims, who says he was raped at gun point by one of the British paedophiles in Amsterdam. The Bristol detectives arrested the man, but could not even put the allegation to him, because the alleged rape was outside their jurisdiction.


There have been successful paedophilia operations between British and European police. Scotland Yard detectives recently have twice arrested wanted men and extradited them to Holland for trial on child-sex offences. The Bristol detectives, following the activities of Gay and Tucker, led German police to raid a video distributor in Dusseldorf. Within their borders, the Dutch paedophilia unit have arrested several of the key British paedophiles for sexual abuse and the production of pornography and, since January 1996, they have introduced a tougher law, which threatens up to six years in prison for the production of child pornography. But the wider picture is of police being trapped within their borders with the result, we have found, that the European trade in boys for sexual exploitation has grown into an international industry.


The trafficking of boys into Amsterdam's sex industry continued to grow long after Warwick Spinks left the city in the early 1990s. A couple of years ago, I sat in the Blue Boy club on Spuistraat, amidst the dry ice and the boys in thongs, and flicked through the catalogue on the bar, offering "truly the best boys in town" East German boys, Polish boys, Dutch boys and watched a Japanese businessman make his purchase. I spent an evening on Paardenstraat, just around the corner from the tourist cafes on the Rembrandsplein, where the pavement is strewn with garbage and there's a smell of piss in the air. East European boys sit chewing the skin around their finger nails in the shadows of the three bars the Festival, the Music Box and the Cupido waiting for business. One of Alan Williams' Welsh boys ended up in the Festival Bar. By the age of 16, he was HIV positive and was last heard of in a mental hospital in England.


In search of their origins, I went to Berlin, to the Bahnhof Am Zoo, where the trains arrive from all over Eastern Europe, bringing the destitute in search of a dream. A specialist social worker there, Wolfgang Werner, told me there were some 700 East European boys, aged from eleven to seventeen, who had ended up in the sex industry in Berlin but, to his knowledge, many hundreds of others who had been taken off on a kind of underground railroad which fanned out to Zurich and Hamburg and Frankfurt and, most of all, to Rotterdam and Amsterdam in Holland. Werner told me about the boys from Polish villages who were selling themselves to support families back home who survived on only £30 a month; about the Bosnians who wash up on the banks of the Bahnhof Am Zoo not only financially destitute but also emotionally mutilated; about the steady trickle of lost boys from Turkey and Kurdistan; and about the group of Romanian boys who had been sold by their parents to a wandering Polish criminal, who had paid cash for some and a mere bottle of vodka for another, before putting them on to the streets of Berlin. All now chicken' for the pleasure of paedophiles.


I went to the cluster of boy bars' in Fuggerstrasse, fifteen minutes' walk from the Bahnhof, and saw adolescent East Europeans bartering for trade. Just around the corner, in the PC Inn, Berlin police found Bosnian boys of only 12 on sale to customers. I followed the trail of two men, Peter Goetjes and Lutz Edelman, who have been identified as traffickers in the Berlin press. Eventually, I spoke to a close friend of theirs who shrugged and said, of course, they had been trafficking it was easy money. They had started in the autumn of 1991 with a couple of boys from the Bahnhof whom they had driven to Holland. They had made a good sale. Yes, one of them was under 16, but who was counting? So they had started making regular runs, sometimes two or three times a week. They must have sold 150 between them, before Goetjes was caught on the Polish border in the summer of 1992 with a boy from a rundown industrial town called Gorzow Wielkopolski in his boot. He was charged with smuggling, released on bail and then simply drove away and never came back for his trial. At about that time, they had stopped trafficking, not so much because of Goetjes' arrest but because they had been told that some of the boys were being used in snuff movies. There were plenty of others who carried on.


In May 1995, Bjorn Eriksson, then president of Interpol and chief of the Swedish police, told a conference on cross-border crime that organised paedophile networks were operating across European frontiers and that as many as 30,000 paedophiles were believed to be linked to organisations or publications throughout Europe. His warning went unheeded. In the late 1990s, the trafficking of boys from Berlin to Holland hit the north European press when police belatedly tried to find out what had happened to a 12-year-old Berlin boy named Manuel Schadwald who had gone missing on his way home in July 1993. At the time, Berlin police had told his family that he must have run away and they had done nothing. By 1997, however, Dutch journalists had dug out a history of sightings which suggested he had been put to work in a brothel in Rotterdam.


The brothel was one of several in the city which were being run by a German named Lothar Glandorf, now aged 36. After ignoring complaints for 18 months, Rotterdam police finally targetted him and found he had been selling hundreds of boys. Of those they could trace, nearly half were under 16, some by many years. One of them was only nine. Tapping Glandorf's phones, they heard one customer say "I'm looking for a young boy, a very young boy, a nice little blonde one, who can stay the night"; and another who specified a pre-pubescent boy, "You know, no hair." This was a kind of slavery. They heard Glandorf tell one boy that if he tried to run away, he would send his family pornographic pictures of him; another was told simply he would be shot in the head.


The Rotterdam police reported: "Even if Glandorf knew the perversions of a customer, he would still send a young boy to a customer who had a sexual preference for sado-masochism. Glandorf had one customer who specialised in deflowering young boys." In one of Glandorf's houses, they found an unmailed letter from a Turkish boy called Attila, written to a young girl named Aysum. "Don't feel sad about me," he wrote. "Things are the way they are and there is nothing to be done about it. You can do what you want. Don't be sad." They found the same boy in a video, with his testicles wired to a whining electrical generator while a Belgian customer abused him.


In the midst of all this, the Rotterdam police were looking for Manuel Schadwald. Three different boys had run away from Glandorf's world and reported sighting the missing Berlin boy. Police logs which were leaked to the Dutch TV programme Network, reveal that three Rotterdam surveillance officers saw Glandorf with a boy whom all three of them believed to be Manuel Schadwald but they failed to rescue him: the leaked logs suggest that they were reluctant to break cover for fear of jeopardising their operation, asked for urgent advice from senior officers, received none and watched passively as Glandorf drove the boy away in his car. With the Dutch and German press baying for action, police in the two countries finally set about trying to find him some four years after his disappearance. They failed. Manuel Schadwald has never been found. The last sightings suggested he was working in the dark bars on Paardenstraat in Amsterdam.


The same cross-border weakness persists. Investigating Glandorf, the Rotterdam police found that British paedophiles were routinely using his brothels. They found their names and details in Glandorf's paperwork: one was crossing the North Sea on a weekly basis. The Rotteredam detectives produced a detailed report, De Handel In Kinderen The Trade In Children which the Guardian has obtained. It presents a detailed picture of the trade and of some of its British links, and yet they never even sent a copy to Scotland Yard. Glandorf, himself, had little fear of international policing. When a senior Dutch civil servant phoned him from Poland to say he was bringing back a boy for him, the police phone taps recorded Glandorf saying: "Be careful. When you get to the bridge at the border, let him out so he can go on foot so they can't catch you." That was all it took.


Within their borders, the Dutch did better. Having finally targeted Glandforf, they jailed him for five and a half years, and yet the Amsterdam paedophiles remain relaxed and casual about their world. I visited one in his cosy home next to a canal in the centre of the city. He is a chubby bespectacled man with a string of convictions, and he stood in his sitting room, ironing his shirts with considerable care, while he chatted about his hobby the boys he had had recently, the videos that were on sale, and the trafficking from all over Europe. He didn't like to think of it as a paedophile ring. "It's a spider's web," he said, "people criss-crossing and finding interests." In Utrecht, two years ago, I went to the home of Rudy van Dam, the most prolific boy pornographer in Holland and, although at first he pretended to be somebody else, he eventually let me in and sat in his neat parlour, in front of the old oak sideboard, and he talked about his career, apparently quite indifferent to the video-editing equipment behind his head, pouring out a constant stream of soundless boy pornography.


Van Dam is dead now. So is Alan Williams, a victim of AIDS and heroin. John Gay and Lee Tucker were jailed by the Bristol detectives, although Tucker jumped bail and was last seen heading for Amsterdam. The Berlin traffickers, Goetjes and Edelman, were never prosecuted. Warwick Spinks absconded from a London probation hostel before the end of his five-year sentence, ripped off several credit card companies on a spending spree in the boy bars in Fuggerstrasse in Berlin before settling in Prague. Some of the other key figures from Holland have joined him there, apparently drawn to the easy supply of vulnerable boys and the lack of police activity. Lothar Glandorf from Rotterdam served only four years of his sentence and is free again. In their report, the Dutch detectives noted that as soon as Glandorf and his men had been arrested, "other club owners moved in immediately." The trains still pull into the Bahnhof Am Zoo with their consignment of vulnerable children. The international boy business is alive and well.

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Wales child abuse: Operation Pallial inquiry finds evidence of 140 claims

An independent investigation examining claims of historical child abuse at children's homes in north Wales has found "significant evidence of systemic and serious sexual and physical abuse".


Investigators in Operation Pallial have found evidence of 140 allegations of historical abuse between 1963 and 1992.


They also say 76 new complainants have come forward.


The claims centre on 18 homes involving offences against boys and girls aged between seven and 19.


A news conference is being held at North Wales Police HQ in Colwyn Bay.


A total of 84 individuals have been named - 75 male and nine female. Of these, 16 have been named by more than one complainant.


It is believed that 10 of the 16 may be deceased.


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This report reveals that phase one of the investigation has resulted in the collection of significant evidence of systemic and serious sexual and physical abuse of children whilst in care"


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A summary of the report said: "No evidence of systemic or institutional misconduct by North Wales Police officers or staff in connection with these matters have been identified."


Keith Bristow, director general of the National Crime Agency (NCA), has agreed to continue investigations at the request of Mark Polin, the North Wales chief constable.


"I took the decision to ask the director general of the National Crime Agency to investigate these allegations last November conscious that some victims of historic abuse may not have the necessary level of confidence in North Wales Police to report these matters directly to us," he said.


"Operation Pallial has now secured accounts from almost all victims who are willing to support an investigation and it makes absolute sense for the officers and staff involved to date to be the core of phase two and to move matters forward as quickly as professionally as possible."


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The report said: "This report reveals that phase one of the investigation has resulted in the collection of significant evidence of systemic and serious sexual and physical abuse of children whilst in care."


Det Supt Ian Mulcahey of Merseyside Police is leading the day-to-day investigation.


He said: "These are serious allegations that will be thoroughly investigated.


"We are prioritising our activities to ensure that any level of ongoing risk to the public is minimised."


A Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyer has been appointed to assist Operation Pallial.


The CPS lawyer has advised "the priority should be given to the most serious allegations and the a prioritisation process has been agreed with them."


Home Secretary Theresa May ordered this inquiry following a Newsnight report in November, that as well as leading to a Tory peer being falsely accused of paedophilia, alleged that child abuse in north Wales in the 1970s and 1980s was far more widespread than had previously been investigated.


The investigation involves police officers and staff, primarily from forces in north-west England, supported by members of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP Centre).


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By December it had heard from 105 victims of abuse.


At the time, Det Supt Mulcahey said the investigation would "follow the evidence without fear or favour".


A separate review by Mrs Justice Macur is investigating the terms of the Waterhouse abuse inquiry, which began in 1996.


It examined the abuse of victims in former north Wales care homes such as Bryn Estyn in Wrexham dating back to the 1970s.


The new inquiry followed a victim's claims that Sir Ronald Waterhouse only uncovered a fraction of the abuse.


Those claims surfaced in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.


Last week, one man was arrested in Ipswich, Suffolk, as part of Operation Pallial and questioned on suspicion of serious sexual offences against a number of people. He has been bailed until July.

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Claims of a cover-up are strengthened after detectives "ignored vital evidence" over alleged VIP paedo ring


A boy who complained about sexual abuse by a VIP *paedophile ring with alleged links to the political *establishment was ignored after he spoke out.


The 16-year-old, who lived in a South West London care home, said he was attacked at the *notorious Elm Guest House nearby.


And despite *evidence backing his claim from *a second boy, *detectives failed to act, Exaro the investigative website and the Sunday People can reveal.


A potential opportunity to snare those behind the powerful *paedophile ring was wasted.


The claims add momentum to fears there was an establishment cover-up of the twisted gang that operated between 1977 and 1983 at the guest house in Barnes.


Confidential files show police formally interviewed the second teenager while following up *information passed to them about the first boy's claims.


The second lad, now in his *forties, said he was "not surprised" at the lack of action after he was told that confidential *documents revealing the police decision had been leaked to Exaro.


He added: "I knew the police had forgotten about this and were *always on the fringe of what was happening. At the time, I knew that there was something wrong. But as a child, I was not sure what."


Both boys were in the care of Grafton Close, a home run by Richmond Council. The home was alleged to have supplied boys to the Elm Guest House, where an establishment-backed child abuse network is said to have preyed on youngsters.


Files held by Richmond Council show its then *director of social services, Louis Minster, twice called up the file on the second boy.


He was interviewed at the age of 16 by a social worker and a Metropolitan Police detective chief inspector in 1983, a year after a raid on Elm Guest House.


Exaro showed the record to Terry Earland, Richmond's then director of children's services. He said it was *"pretty unusual" for the head of social services to pull a file on a boy after he had left the council's care. Louis Minster declined to comment.


A "referral form" archived by Richmond council reveals the *social worker's account of the interview with the second boy. The *document says: "X was interviewed by the police in my presence and made a formal statement. No *further action required." In January, the Metropolitan Police Service *paedophile unit mounted a criminal investigation into *allegations that boys in care were sexually abused between 1977 and 1983 initially at Grafton Close and then at Elm Guest House in Barnes.


The Met will investigate the council records as part of their full-scale inquiry into the *allegations, carried out under the name Operation Fernbridge.


The investigation is an offshoot of Operation Fairbank.


That was set up after Labour MP Tom Watson called for police to probe claims of a "powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10" in the House of Commons last October. The Met is *already investigating claims that its own officers failed to carry out a proper examination of the case in 2003.


Last week, Exaro revealed the Met is also investigating its own watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, over claims that it failed to *pursue a complaint in 2004 about the handling of the case.

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Studio floor manager Peter Barlow lured victims with fake auditions
Television bosses 'knew it was going on but did nothing'

By Ben Ellery

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A BBC manager nicknamed The Pimp' helped to procure women for Stuart Hall and filmed the TV star having sex with them in his dressing room, it was claimed last night.

A former studio worker has told The Mail on Sunday that floor manager Peter Barlow had them brought to the BBC's Manchester studios for fake auditions.

The source claims that the women were lured to a room where Barlow filmed them having sex with the It's A Knockout host.

The new accusations increase pressure for an inquiry, similar to the Jimmy Savile investigation, into how bosses turned a blind eye while Hall molested girls at BBC studios.

The latest incidents were said to have happened in Hall's dressing room, next to the office of news editor Tom German and regional manager Ray Colley.

On one occasion it is claimed Hall and Barlow even approached the studio's production team to have the films processed.

The allegations echo an account of one of his victims, Susan Harrison, who told how when she was 16 the presenter picked her out at a school speech day and persuaded her to visit him at the BBC on the pretext of recording a song. He later got her drunk and molested her in his car.

Detectives believe other BBC staff may have helped Hall, now 83, trick girls seeking fame into visiting him.

Last night the former employee said the abuse took place at the studio for regional news programme Look North from the late 1970s until the show moved offices in 1981.

The ex-staff member said: It was an open secret that Stuart Hall used to film sex videos in his dressing room with women procured for him by Peter Barlow. Peter's nickname was The Pimp and he was very close to Stuart he used to drive him to Look North and It's A Knockout.

Peter would tell women to come into the Look North studio for an audition and the pair would pretend to film the women while they presented the weather forecast.

Afterwards they would take them to Stuart's dressing room and Peter would film him having sex with them.

On one occasion they approached the processing team to process a video but they point-blank refused, they wouldn't go near it.

Women would come by Stuart's dressing room on a daily basis.

'Stuart liked the women aged about 18. He would meet them on It's A Knockout, some of them were score girls, or he also picked up the pageant winners from beauty contests he used to judge.

Everyone knew what was going on but no one did anything about it because he was the golden boy. As far as the bosses were concerned, as long as he read the news he could do what he liked. It was total mismanagement by the BBC.

'Next to Stuart's dressing room were the offices of Tom German and Ray Colley. They weren't stupid and it was obvious these women were having sex in Stuart's office. This all needs to be revealed, as it was with Savile.

I felt sick when I found out Stuart had been abusing underage girls. It's awful because we used to visit schools around Lancashire and get children to take part in cookery competitions.

'It's awful now to think back and know that probably helped him do those disgusting things.

There were odd things about Stuart. We used to collect tins for charity.
Presenter: Stuart Hall pictured in 1968. Detectives believe that other BBC staff may have helped Hall trick girls into visiting him

'I remember getting some salmon and Stuart kept it because he said the pensioners we were collecting for wouldn't know what to do with it. It's little things like that that really tell you about someone's character.'

MPs and Hall's victims have called on the BBC to investigate his behaviour after he admitted assaulting 13 girls, the youngest of whom was nine, between 1967 and 1986.

In the aftermath of his guilty pleas, it emerged the married father of two told staff that girls he took to his dressing room were his nieces'.

Peter Barlow died aged 86 in 2007 and Tom German died aged 66 in 1992.

When approached by The Mail on Sunday, Mr Colley, 83, said: While Stuart Hall is awaiting sentence it would be inappropriate to comment.'
Honour: Hall pictured receiving the OBE for his services to broadcasting and charity last year

The BBC has no plans to set up a separate inquiry into Hall, saying it has passed any information on to the Dame Janet Smith Review, which is looking at practices at the BBC during the years of Savile's abuse.

However, last night Conservative MP Rob Wilson said: My gut instinct is the BBC are not using the Smith Review to get to the truth and are instead using it to do the minimum necessary to carry on as before.'

A spokesman for The National Association for People Abused in Childhood said: It's disgusting the BBC gave Hall unfettered opportunities to carry out his abuse.

The BBC owes it to his victims to open a new inquiry that can scrutinise his behaviour and the colleagues who may have helped him.'

Hall and the BBC are facing potential compensation payouts after six victims contacted solicitor Alan Collins, a partner at the law firm Pannone who is also pursuing the BBC over the Savile scandal.

The BBC said: All allegations that have been made to the BBC in relation to Stuart Hall have been passed on to the police or the Dame Janet Smith Review.'