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The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - Magda Hassan - 09-08-2013

Jan Klimkowski Wrote:A royal pardon for a serial predatory paedophile who was found guilty of abusing 11 infants and children between the ages of 3 and 14.

And they're just the ones this scumbag spy was formally charged with.

Is anyone surprised?

Galván is an Iraqi from Basra and appears to have acquired his Spanish name from the secret service, along with a new identity as a retired professor of oceanography. He moved to Rabat eight years ago where he organised parties in his home for poor and vulnerable children whom he then abused and photographed.

A royal pardon for the sexual abuse of street children.

By: Imad Estito
Published Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The fiasco over the Moroccan royal pardon of a Spanish pedophile, who was serving a 30-year sentence for raping Moroccan children while filming them, continues to reverberate. Now, the king has decided to sacrifice a senior member of the old guard' of the Moroccan establishment, in a bid to contain public anger.
Rabat The Royal Palace in Morocco has been forced to issue three successive statements so far, in an attempt to appease the angry public after Spanish child rapist Daniel Galvan was released following a royal pardon of a number of Spanish prisoners in Morocco.
This incident has put King Mohammed VI in direct confrontation with the Moroccan street, perhaps for the first time in history, after which the Moroccan monarch found himself compelled to backtrack on his decision and revoke the pedophile's pardon.
The protests that ensued also prompted the king to sack the kingdom's prison chief Hafeez Benhashem. Benhashem rose to infamy under the late King Hassan II, during what was known as the "Years of Lead," a black phase in Morocco's history marked by state violence against political dissidents.
In the immediate aftermath of the controversy, King Mohammed VI declared that he had not been aware of the nature of Galvan's crimes. On the following day, the king announced he was exceptionally revoking his pardon of the Spanish national.
On Monday, August 5, the Royal Court issued a third statement explaining that investigations revealed the error to have taken place at the level of the High Commission of Penitentiaries and Prisons, which the statement said bore full responsibility for supplying the Royal Court with inaccurate information on the "criminal status of the person concerned." The Royal Court cleared Justice Minister Mustafa Ramid of all responsibility.
However, it seems that the Moroccan authorities have mixed up the two lists, and included all prisoners in the royal pardon.Commenting on the decision to dismiss him from his post, Hafeez Benhashem said, "The Royal Court's announcement is clear. The commission provided false information about the Spanish national Daniel to the Royal Court … it is the commission that made the mistake, not I. But at any rate, I take all responsibility. The information that was provided on Daniel, especially in terms of his charges and sentence, actually pertain to another Spanish prisoner. The mistake took place as a result of mistaken identity." Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities announced that, based on the Moroccan decision to revoke Galvan's pardon and the international warrant Rabat issued for his arrest via Interpol, Galvan was arrested in Murcia in southeastern Spain. Spanish judicial sources said that the convicted pedophile will be brought before Spain's top criminal court.
Since Monday, the Moroccan justice minister initiated contacts with his Spanish counterpart over implementing the decision to revoke Galvan's pardon as soon as possible. On Tuesday, two Moroccan judicial officials travelled to Madrid to discuss how to proceed next. According to Alberto Navarro, the Spanish ambassador to Morocco, Galvan will probably serve the remainder of his prison sentence in Spain, and would not be extradited to Morocco.
More details about the scandal that has rocked the Moroccan street have come to light after Spanish government sources said that Madrid had given Morocco two lists of convicts incarcerated in Moroccan prisons. The first list was enclosed with a request for amnesty for 18 prisoners, while the second requested that 33 others be transferred to Spain to complete their sentences there, including Galvan. However, it seems that the Moroccan authorities have mixed up the two lists, and included all prisoners in the royal pardon.
Some in the Moroccan press have suggested that a bid to settle scores between the king's entourage and the government may have been behind the incident. These same press sources said that the Spanish King Juan Carlos, during a visit to Morocco, had appealed to Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane to deport a Spanish prisoner diagnosed with cancer to finish his sentence in Spain.
According to the sources, Benkirane subsequently conveyed this to the Moroccan king, who agreed to the request. However, Fouad Ali al-Himma, the king's adviser, contacted the Spanish ambassador and reproached him for not addressing the request to the Royal Palace instead of the government. Nevertheless, hearing that only the Moroccan king can fulfill the Spanish request, the ambassador used this to his country's advantage, and contacted the Spanish authorities to prepare lists of Spanish prisoners to be pardoned by the king.
This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/moroccan-king-sacrifices-%E2%80%9Cold-guard%E2%80%9D



The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - Jan Klimkowski - 10-08-2013

Quote:However, it seems that the Moroccan authorities have mixed up the two lists, and included all prisoners in the royal pardon.Commenting on the decision to dismiss him from his post, Hafeez Benhashem said, "The Royal Court's announcement is clear. The commission provided false information about the Spanish national Daniel to the Royal Court … it is the commission that made the mistake, not I. But at any rate, I take all responsibility. The information that was provided on Daniel, especially in terms of his charges and sentence, actually pertain to another Spanish prisoner. The mistake took place as a result of mistaken identity." Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities announced that, based on the Moroccan decision to revoke Galvan's pardon and the international warrant Rabat issued for his arrest via Interpol, Galvan was arrested in Murcia in southeastern Spain. Spanish judicial sources said that the convicted pedophile will be brought before Spain's top criminal court.
Since Monday, the Moroccan justice minister initiated contacts with his Spanish counterpart over implementing the decision to revoke Galvan's pardon as soon as possible. On Tuesday, two Moroccan judicial officials travelled to Madrid to discuss how to proceed next. According to Alberto Navarro, the Spanish ambassador to Morocco, Galvan will probably serve the remainder of his prison sentence in Spain, and would not be extradited to Morocco.
More details about the scandal that has rocked the Moroccan street have come to light after Spanish government sources said that Madrid had given Morocco two lists of convicts incarcerated in Moroccan prisons. The first list was enclosed with a request for amnesty for 18 prisoners, while the second requested that 33 others be transferred to Spain to complete their sentences there, including Galvan. However, it seems that the Moroccan authorities have mixed up the two lists, and included all prisoners in the royal pardon.
Some in the Moroccan press have suggested that a bid to settle scores between the king's entourage and the government may have been behind the incident. These same press sources said that the Spanish King Juan Carlos, during a visit to Morocco, had appealed to Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane to deport a Spanish prisoner diagnosed with cancer to finish his sentence in Spain.

Oh lookeee, the old canards when the elites get caught doing something so outrageous that even the braindead masses rise up:

It was a cock-up!

It was a conspiracy!, they scream ever more desparately.

In fact the truth is clear and bright:

A European monarch and a North African monarch connived to issue a royal pardon to a serial child rapist who picked his victims from the most vulnerable, street children, and filmed his abuse.

I wonder who views those films? Those disgusting records of adult abuse of children?


The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - Magda Hassan - 11-08-2013

Yep blame the victim of predatory pedophiles.
Quote:

Abused girls can be to blame, suggests Eddy Shah


Former newspaper owner Eddy Shah has said underage girls who engage in consensual sex can be "to blame" for the abuse they experience.
Mr Shah was recently cleared of raping a schoolgirl in London hotels when she was between 12 and 15.
He said charges of rape involving girls under 16 who "threw themselves" at celebrities could be "technical".
But the National Association of People Abused in Childhood said rape was always a crime.


Mr Shah, the 69-year-old founder of the newspaper Today, who lives in Chippenham, Wiltshire, was found not guilty at the Old Bailey last month of raping a girl at upmarket London hotels when she was between 12 and 15.
After the case he called for a review of how rape cases are dealt with by police, saying: "Anybody walking down the street can point at a celebrity and say, 'he raped me'.
And on Saturday he told BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan rape charges involving girls who "threw themselves" at celebrities were a legal technicality.
Mr Shah said: "If we take the pop groups and people of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, who everybody knows that women were throwing themselves at them - young girls who looked 17, 18, 19 and 20...
"Rape was a technical thing - below a certain age. But these girls were going out with the pop groups and becoming groupies and all the rest of it, and throwing themselves at them. You cannot put that down to the fact they've been abused.
"Young girls and young men have always wanted a bit of excitement when they are young. They want to appear adult and do adult things."
When asked if he was implying that underage victims could themselves be at fault, he said: "If we're talking about girls who go out and just have a good time, then they are to blame.
"If we talk about people who happen to be out and actually get 'raped' raped, then I feel no - and everything should be done against that."
'Witch-hunt' Mr Shah also commented on Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree investigation, set up in the wake of allegations of sexual abuse by BBC DJ Jimmy Savile and other television stars from the 1970s and 1980s.
He added that he had been helping a "very well-known person" charged under Operation Yewtree deal with the "horrible, horrible feeling" of "emptiness about everything", which Mr Shah said he had experienced when he was wrongly accused of rape.
Asked if he thought the investigation was in danger of becoming a witch-hunt, he said: "I think it's developing into that. It's easy policing and it's easy prosecutions...
"In a civilised society there's got to be more checks and balances before these sort of accusations are used."
He also talked again about the suicidal thoughts he had experienced after his arrest.
"Every night I worked out different ways of committing suicide to help me go to sleep, actually," he said.
'Always a crime' His comments come after another case, in which a prosecutor was suspended and a judge placed under investigation after it emerged a 13-year-old girl was labelled "predatory" and "sexually experienced" during the trial where a man admitted abusing her.
His comments were criticised by Pete Saunders, chief executive of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood.
Mr Saunders said: "I'd like to meet with Eddie, and to have him explain to me, and maybe explain to some rape victims, what he means by 'raped raped', because my understanding is there is rape, or there is not rape, and rape is always a crime."
His views were echoed by Jim Gamble, the former chief executive of Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP).
Mr Gamble said: "At the end of the day, a child is a child, and the law is configured to protect a child, and there's an assumption made that adults, you know, will respect that, because they will want to protect children themselves."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23653172#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa


The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - Magda Hassan - 15-08-2013

Fifth man arrested in north Wales care homes child abuse inquiry

The 62-year-old man was arrested under Operation Pallial investigation for alleged offences against two boys in 1980s



Operation Pallial is being led by Keith Bristow (pictured) director-general of the newly-formed National Crime Agency. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA

A fifth man has been arrested under the Operation Pallial investigation into historic abuse at care homes in north Wales.
The 62-year-old man was arrested in Wrexham, north Wales, on Thursday morning on suspicion of buggery and indecent assault on two boys in the 1980s.
The offences are alleged to have taken place when the boys were 14 and 15 years old, police said. The man has been taken to a police station in north Wales, where he will be interviewed.
He is the fifth arrest under Operation Pallial, the police investigation ordered by David Cameron last year into allegations of abuse at care homes in north Wales. One man has been charged under the inquiry.
Operation Pallial police said in a statement: "No further information about the arrest, or the specific nature of the offences being put to him, will be provided. An update will be issued when the man is either charged, bailed or released from police custody following interview."
John Allen, 71, from Ipswich in Suffolk, was the first to be charged under Operation Pallial. He is accused of 32 serious sexual offences including 22 indecent assaults and one offence of gross indecency against 15 boys and girls between 1968 and 1989.
The Crown Prosecution Service said last month that 187 people were now speaking to investigators about alleged abuse.
Operation Pallial is being led by Keith Bristow, director general of the newly-formed National Crime Agency.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/15/fifth-man-arrested-north-wales-child-abuse?CMP=twt_gu


The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - Magda Hassan - 31-08-2013

Rolf Harris charged with indecent assault and making indecent images of a child

By Europe correspondent Mary Gearin, staff
Updated August 30, 2013 15:42:11
[Image: 4923852-16x9-340x191.jpg] Video: Rolf Harris charged with indecent assault, indecent images (ABC News)
[Image: 4400450-3x2-340x227.jpg] Photo: Rolf Harris has been re-bailed to a date later this month. (Reuters: Mick Tsikas, file photo)
Related Story: Rolf Harris re-arrested over sex abuse allegations
Map: England

Rolf Harris has made no public comment following revelations British police have charged him with nine counts of indecent assault and four counts of making indecent images of a child.
Six of the indecent assault charges relate to the alleged assault of a girl aged between 15 and 16 in the years 1980 and 1981, while the other three relate to the alleged assault of a 14-year-old girl in 1986.
The four charges of making indecent images of a child relate to alleged incidents between March and July 2012.
Most of the charges carry maximum sentences of five years, some carry a maximum of 10.
Neither Harris nor any of his representatives have made any comment.
The charges come as a part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation prompted by the child sexual abuse allegations against late BBC TV star Jimmy Savile.

Key points

  • Rolf Harris charged with a total of 13 offences.
  • Nine indecent-assault charges relate to alleged incidents with teenage girls in 1980-81 and 1986.
  • Four charges of making an indecent image relate to alleged incidents in 2012.
  • First arrested in November 29, 2012.
  • Harris will appear in court on September 23.



Alison Saunders from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says evidence from the Metropolitan Police has been carefully considered.

'Realistic prospect' of conviction: prosecutors

Ms Saunders says there is sufficient evidence against Harris for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction.
"Having completed our review, we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Harris to be charged with nine counts of indecent assault and four of making indecent images of a child," she said in a statement.
"The alleged indecent assaults date from 1980 to 1986 and relate to two complainants aged 14 and 15 at the time of the alleged offending.
"The decision to prosecute has been taken in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and the DPP's interim guidelines on prosecuting cases of child sexual abuse.
"We have determined that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest."

Court date set for September

Rolf Harris: Timeline

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  • Born in Perth in 1930.
  • Harris moved to the UK in 1952 and begun drawing animation for TV.
  • In 1957, Harris wrote 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport', which became a top-ten hit around the world.
  • In 1973, he played the first-ever concert held in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House.
  • He invented the percussive instrument the "wobble board" in the 1970s.
  • Harris later moved into TV, appearing on many British television shows in the 1970s and 80s.



Harris is set to appear in the Westminster Magistrates' Court on September 23.
Harris was first arrested on November 29 last year over alleged sexual offences.
He was re-arrested earlier this month but was granted bail without being charged.
A file of evidence was passed on to the CPS from the Metropolitan Police on August 12.
It is notable to say that this is the first time Scotland Yard has actually named Harris.
It has only been the media that in the past few months have published his name and his identity in relation to this investigation.
Harris has been keeping a very low profile and the police, in turn, also have been very circumspect about giving any information out.

Harris charges not related to Savile abuse

Harris's case relates to the third strand of Operation Yewtree, which is investigating allegations of abuse not related to the Savile scandal but which emerged in its wake.
He is now the fourth person to be charged as a result of the operation.
While Harris is yet to make any public comment about the allegations, the veteran entertainer alluded to the scandal during a concert in Bristol in May.
"You've got no idea what this means to have you turn up with such enthusiasm and such support," he told the audience.
Harris received a standing ovation at the beginning and end of the concert.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-29/rolf-harris-charged-with-nine-counts-of-indecent-assault-and-fo/4923596




The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - Jan Klimkowski - 16-09-2013

More revelations whilst we were hacked...

Typically, the spooks put political machinations above the protection of children.

If you click on the link, you will see photos of the Gross Man known as Cyril Smith MP.

Quote:MI5 and Special Branch 'covered up Cyril Smith's abuse of boys': Police dossier handed to prosecutors in 1970 'went missing for four decades'

Lib Dem MP for Rochdale was accused of eight counts of sex abuse
But now police have come forward to tell how their probe was thwarted
They claim Special Branch and MI5 intervened on Smith's behalf


By Alasdair Glennie

PUBLISHED: 00:50, 12 September 2013 | UPDATED: 00:50, 12 September 2013

Fresh evidence that MI5 and Special Branch covered up Sir Cyril Smith's abuse of children has been found in a police dossier.

The file, which accuses the Liberal Democrat MP of a sordid series of indecent episodes with young boys', was handed to prosecutors in 1970 but then went missing for more than four decades.

It was discovered by a team of investigators from Channel 4's Dispatches.
A police file which accuses Liberal Democrat MP Cyril Smith of 'a sordid series of indecent episodes with young boys' which went missing for four decades has been unearthed by reporters from Channel 4's Dispatches

A police file which accuses late Lib Dem MP Cyril Smith of 'a sordid series of indecent episodes with young boys' which went missing four decades ago has been unearthed by reporters from Channel 4's Dispatches

The file reveals that the 29-stone politician was accused of eight counts of sex abuse, including six offences at a care home he set up in his Rochdale constituency.

The case has strong parallels with that of former BBC DJ and abuser Jimmy Savile, who was allowed access to patients at Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville and Leeds General Infirmary.

The Dispatches reporter, Liz MacKean, worked on the BBC Newsnight investigation into Savile in 2011.

That programme was shelved later that year sparking a crisis at the corporation and her acrimonious departure.

Smith, who died three years ago aged 82, was a guest on an edition of Savile's show Clunk Click that was broadcast in 1973.
Parallels to the Savile case: The 29-stone politician was accused of eight counts of sex abuse, including six offences at a care home he set up

Parallels to the Savile case: The 29-stone politician was accused of eight counts of sex abuse, including six offences at a care home he set up in Rochdale

Miss MacKean has unearthed evidence that the file containing claims against the MP was suppressed at the highest levels of the Establishment.

The allegations first surfaced last year when Simon Danczuk, Labour MP for Rochdale, called on Home Secretary Theresa May to investigate whether MI5 were involved in a cover-up.

Dispatches spoke to a former Special Branch detective, Tony Robinson, who said he found the file in a safe at police headquarters in Lancashire.

He claimed he took a call in 1977 from Box 500', the police codeword for MI5, requesting the file be sent to London by special courier.

At the time, Smith was heavily involved in negotiations to keep James Callaghan's government in office through a pact between Labour and the Liberals.

Another officer, Paul Foulston, told Dispatches he was ordered by Special Branch in London not to interview a witness in a murder inquiry.

He claimed they then discovered the 18-year-old, who was soon ruled out of the investigation, had been involved in a sexual relationship with Smith.

Mr Foulston said: It was quite apparent to us that they were in effect protecting Cyril Smith and not investigating him.'

The police file names eight victims who describe being stripped, massaged, beaten and subjected to bizarre hygiene examinations' or chastisements' by Smith.

One victim told Dispatches he was so upset he ran away from Cambridge House care home and was forced to live rough for several months.

Another, Chris Marshall, said he was taken from his dormitory and abused by Smith in a bedroom in Knowle View school another Rochdale institution set up by the politician.

He told the programme: They had the evidence to stop him, didn't they? They knew what he was up to.'
Smith strains the benches of the House of Commons: Reporter Liz MacKean has unearthed evidence that the file containing claims against the MP was suppressed at the highest levels of the Establishment

Smith strains the benches of the House of Commons: Dispatches reporter Liz MacKean has found evidence that the file containing claims against the MP was suppressed at the highest levels of the Establishment

A police chief said yesterday that a lack of leadership from responsible authorities led to abusers Savile, Smith and Stuart Hall getting away with their crimes for so long.

Andy Rhodes, assistant chief constable of Lancashire Constabulary, told delegates at a child sexual exploitation conference near Blackburn that gaining knowledge of the subject and acting upon it was the key to tackling the problem.

Mr Rhodes told the meeting: The reason Cyril Smith, Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall got away with what they got away with, which was serious, serious prolonged sexual exploitation of young people, was because leaders who had responsibility to do something, did not do it.

They turned a blind eye. Buried their heads in the sand.

There are a lot of leaders around the country (now) becoming aware and increasing their knowledge about what sexual exploitation is all about in their areas.'



The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - Jan Klimkowski - 16-09-2013

And another disgraceful non-investigation...


Quote:Police hunt millionaire paedophile's accomplices after report finds they failed to do enough to find people who helped him prey on 3,500 children

William Goad was jailed for life after four decades of abusing boys
He died last year aged 68, but victims say he was not the only abuser
Official report concluded that investigators could have done more
Now police launch a fresh search for other peadophiles in the case


By Kieran Corcoran Daily Mail

PUBLISHED: 14:11, 13 September 2013 | UPDATED: 15:47, 13 September 2013

William Goad, pictured, died last year in prison, but may not have been the only one involved in abusing thousands of young boys

Police have launched a new investigation into Britain's worst ever paedophile after an internal report revealed that officers failed to hunt down his sick accomplices.

Millionaire William Goad was caged for life in 2004 for preying on boys as young as eight over the course of 35 years. He was said to have as many as 3,500 victims.

Goad died last year in prison aged 68, but some of his victims have long suspected there were others involved in his child abuse ring who escaped the net.

Their claims have now been backed by a police probe which said detectives focused so narrowly on Goad that they sidelined claims he had help.

The report by Devon and Cornwall Police's Professional Standards Department (PSD) said hundreds of possible new victims have come forward after his conviction but none had even been interviewed properly.

The force has responded by promising a full-scale re-investigation that sources say could be bigger than Operation Yewtree - the Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation.

Goad, who ran a chain of indoor markets and discount stores in Plymouth, Devon, used his wealth and influence to lure generations of boys into his clutches.

He once boasted of abusing 142 children in a single year - and often ten boys at a time stayed in his home.

He gave them cash and gifts, employed them at his shops, bought homes overlooking school playgrounds and threatened to hurt their mothers if they talked.

Victims have always claimed he had links with other paedophiles and sometimes abused boys with them. A police document from 1996 warned that Goad's abuse ring contained 'prominent members of society' - but none were ever identified.

Devon and Cornwall Police launched their internal probe after a complaint was lodged last November by Paul Wyatt, who was abused by Goad in his teens and has campaigned for years to see the case reopened.

The PSD referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission but insisted the force had correctly followed its policy at the time and did not recommend specific disciplinary action.
William Goad abused thousands of boys, and now Devon and Cornwall Police will try to track down his accomplices (picture posed by model)

William Goad abused thousands of boys, and now Devon and Cornwall Police will try to track down his accomplices (picture posed by model)

However, investigators agreed there was a possibility other victims 'might have also been abused by other offenders and thus the lack of any police action has potentially meant these offenders have retained their liberty and continued their offending behaviour'.

Mr Wyatt, who said victims who came forward were simply given a crime number and referred to support services, welcomed the new inquiry.

He said: 'Of the 17 witnesses who originally were part of the trial which led to Goad's eventual conviction, some had named other paedophiles connected to Goad who had also abused them. This information eventually led to the convictions of other paedophiles in the last few years.

'What if these other hundreds of victims, that came forward but were never allowed to make statements, were abused by others as well?

'They were just given crime reference numbers and a telephone helpline to ring. It means their offenders have been active in Plymouth for all this time without ever being brought to book.'

Mr Wyatt was backed by former detective constable Shirley Thompson, who helped secure Goad's life sentence in 2004.

She said: 'The interviews and statements showed there were more victims and more offenders out there. A senior officer said to my boss "put a lid on it and concentrate on Goad".'

Devon and Cornwall Police said it had assembled a team of specially-trained officers for a 'complex and sensitive investigation'.

Detective Sergeant Mark Metherell said: 'The issues raised by Mr Wyatt were investigated by the Professional Standards Department. Their investigation concluded that police had acted lawfully and proportionately and that no misconduct issues had been identified.

'A voluntary referral, however, was made to the Independent Police Complaints Commission in respect to some of the key policy decisions that had been made during the police investigations into the criminal activities of Mr Goad.

'Following consultation with the IPCC Commissioner, Rachel Cerfontyne, Deputy Chief Constable David Zinzan has asked for the Devon and Cornwall Criminal Case Review Team to draw up a terms of reference for a new police investigation which will seek to address the conclusions highlighted within the Professional Standards Department investigation.'



The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - Jan Klimkowski - 21-09-2013

Citizen investigators filling the void....

According to the producer of the BBC programme who was interviewed live on the telly this morning, Stone pleaded guilty to the charges, which is why the evidence - including presumably that of Letzgo Hunting - did not have to be presented in court.


Quote:Police warn against vigilantism after paedophile is jailed

James Stone, 24, was pursued by group Letzgo Hunting, but police say such organisations could compromise investigations


Robert Booth
The Guardian, Friday 20 September 2013 18.26 BST

James Stone, 24, was jailed for eight years on child sex abuse charges. Photograph: Nottinghamshire police/PA

A child sex abuser targeted by a controversial vigilante group has been jailed for eight years at Nottingham crown court, sparking a fresh row over members of the public trying to entrap paedophiles.

James Stone, 24, was caught by Leicestershire-based group Letzgo Hunting after he groomed a 15-year-old in an internet chat room. Pretending to be a 16-year-old boy, he asked his victim to send him naked photographs, persuaded her to meet him in Nottingham on 3 March 2013 and took her to his flat where he manipulated her into performing sexual acts.

Letzgo Hunting has been beset by controversy and announced on Thursday it was halting operations. The move followed the suicide in May of Gary Cleary, another man whom the group had accused of online child grooming. Senior police officers have warned that such tactics could result in the deaths of child victims.

The group yesterday claimed the conviction as a major victory and issued a statement on its Facebook page saying: "Anyone who said we were frauds, fakes or not interested in child protection, eat your words!"

The victim's mother reported the crime to Letzgo Hunting before going to the police and credited the vigilantes with securing the conviction of her daughter's abuser. "If I won the lottery I would give everything to Letzgo Hunting for what they do and support them so they can help others like they helped me," she told a BBC investigation to be broadcast on Monday.

Nottinghamshire police said Letzgo Hunting had no role in Stone's conviction and warned vigilantism could jeopardise investigations. The group posed as a girl online and swapped messages with Stone in which he admitted engaging in sexual activity with his victim. They took video footage when they confronted him at the pub where he worked.

"They are claiming this was their first conviction but that is not the case," said a spokeswoman for Nottinghamshire police. "We acted on a report from the victim's mother."

Stone admitted grooming, sexual activity with a child, taking and possessing indecent images, possession of an indecent image with a view to distribution and possession of extreme pornography.

The vigilante group's leader, named Jamie, told BBC Inside Out East Midlands: "Without our involvement, he would never have been arrested. We get loads of messages from people saying they have reported someone for grooming to the police and they say there is nothing they can do. The police can't investigate in the same way as we can."

"They got the information," the victim's mother told the programme. "When they told me the severity of it, I was a wreck. I don't know how any other parent would react. In an ideal world all I wanted to do was go and find him myself. I couldn't even walk let alone speak to police. It was their evidence that was crucial. He had admitted to what he had done. He had admitted to meeting my daughter. He did that initially on the video but when the [police] arrested him he never said a word, no comment throughout so they wouldn't have had any information whatsoever. He spoke to Letzgo Hunting through the decoys … and he was happy, in great detail, to tell them all he wanted to do and take all their virginities, of children, young girls."

She warned other parents: "You need to be on the computer watching what your children are doing because as much as you think they are on your level they are still immature and they don't realise what's happening. Paedophiles know it is just between them and the child and before anyone can find out, they have got what they want, they have done what they want and then they throw them aside."

Another vigilante group, Stinson Hunter, is also operating. It lures potential child sex abusers and posts videos and transcripts of grooming chats online. The Association of Chief Police Officers warned the tactics could compromise ongoing investigations into paedophile networks. "One of our worst fears is that a 'sting' of this nature could spark an abuser to further harm or even take the life of a child to silence them if they feel threatened," said a spokesperson.



The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - David Guyatt - 21-09-2013

The plod hate citizen vigilantes because they often do the job the police should do, but don't because of political pressure etc, and make plod look dumb & dumber for not doing it.

The fact is that in the UK our beloved Dixon (Evening all) has long since retired to be replaced by politically nuanced officers almost wholly concerned with promotion and budgets - and not concerned with effective policing.

The latest wheeze is not to even get involved in lower level crimes and villainy like petty theft and fraud. Make a report about this and the police won't even visit you. They just log it and give you a crime number.

On the other serious crime is so beset my deep dirty motives, corruption and political fixits they don't get solved either. On the Elm House paedo case almost 2 pages of names of police officers of all ranks were named as being visitors to that establishment and the Establishment can't, therefore, allow prosecution to occur.

And it hasn't.


The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall? - David Guyatt - 23-09-2013

A British paedo classic from the excellent cops policing cops website, the UnProfessional Standards Department:

Quote:Page updated on Friday 20th September 2013 at 0955hrsuPSD were primarily responsible for unmasking West Yorkshire Police paedophile, DC Michael Vause. Working with the Yorkshire Posts Rob Waugh we were able to propagate this nationwide news story. Without that publicity, Vause would have disappeared into retirement with his vile tendencies unknown to the wider public. Indeed, it became apparent only very recently that residents in the tiny village of Wentbridge, Pontefract where Vause lived, at the time of his conviction, were blissfully unaware they had a child abuser in their midst. Mainly due to the localPontefract & Castleford Express newspaper steadfastly refusing to cover the story of the second convicted Pontefract police paedophile in the past few years. uPSD are also piecing together accounts of a child sex/pornography ring that operated in Knottingley and Pontefract during Vause's time serving as an officer there. We have the names of two more police officers in the town who, allegedly, were having sex with underage girls. Like Vause, they were engaged with Pontefract CID.
A CID detective for most of his career and a seriously bent one at that, according to one very reliable account, Vause ended up in the police Professional Standards Department investigating other suspected paedophiles, would you believe? One of those West Yorkshire Police officers he investigated, former Police Band member PS David Oldroyd, was alleged to have abused his own child. The accusations were made by the suspect's own wife, but he was cleared by Vause. That same Band playing officer also perjured himself at Crown Court in Bradford but has faced no action yet from his own Force. That may well change, in the near future, as an outside police force investigation is now under way that will highlight that criminality.
During a Section 18 search of a fellow police officer's home, the paedophile Michael Thomas Vause removed a CD containing images of young children. Those were nephews and nieces of the officer under suspicion. Despite strenuous requests for an audit trail of the precise movements of that CD whilst in Vause's possession, his PSD protectors have steadfastly refused to provide comfort that Vause still does not hold a copy of that CD. They were aided and abetted in that deceit both by West Yorkshire Police Authority's Fraser Sampson, to whom the officer turned to for help, and Force Solicitor and Police Band member, Mike Percival. The latter-named will also feature in the Rogue Solicitors area of our site.
A third suspected West Yorkshire Police paedophile was arrested after child images were found on his computer. A criminal file was prepared for the CPS but no charges were preferred and the inspector (a former custody sergeant in Wakefield) was allowed to retire on medical grounds. uPSD are aware of the identity of this individual and our enquiries continue. Particularly in respect of the proposition that he was not the owner of the computer hard drive when the indecent images were made/downloaded. This was the reason tendered by DC Vause's solicitor for non-prosecution in respect of the more seriouscategory 4 images which should have sent him to jail.
The fourth and fifth West Yorkshire Police paedophiles are named as ex-PC's Christopher Snowand Michael Conlon.
Snow of Headingley, Leeds was jailed in 2011. He was sent down for 3 years and nine months, for a string of sex offences against children, including inciting a child into sexual activity. He was already the subject of a child sexual offences restraining order. He had resigned from the police after the first set of offences came to light in 2006. Judge Christopher Batty described Snow as devious in his grooming of teenage girls'. The children were aged between 13 and 15.
Conlon was sent down for making and possessing indecent child images, grooming and attempting sexual activity with a child. Jailing Conlon for two-and -a-half years, The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Peter Collier QC told him: "It's aggravated because you used the fact you were a police officer to build some measure of trust." Conlon served five years with West Yorkshire Police, ending in 2009.
Conlon was based at Killingbeck police station, the same location as Inspector 5′ Mick Starkey(see Jimmy Savile paedophile news page here). We cannot let the mention of Starkey pass without mentioning Sergeant, and now infamous Blobby Bobby', Matt Appleyard, another paedophile and rapist protector who is still a serving officer at the notorious Wetherby NPT (more on them here).
Killingbeck was also where one of the the infamous and illicit trysts between Rogue Officers DCIElizabeth Belton and C/Supt Ian Whitehouse took place and the base of most of the bent West Yorkshire Police officers involved in the huge, and now notorious, Operation Douglas corruption scandal.
Some of those cases on West Yorkshire Police's roll of paedophile shame are historic but, nonetheless, significant as they involve former police officers who did not have their names listed on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
A disgraced Halifax police officer, who was stationed at Richmond Close Police Station, sexually abused a young girl and was jailed for four years at Leeds Crown Court in Febuary 2004. Peter Newton had served with West Yorkshire Police for more than 29 years admitted six offences of indecent assault against the girl who was aged 11 when the offences began.
Newton was not put on the Sex Offenders' Register for life and his name will be removed next year unless the decision is challenged. He had abused the girl over a period of four years. When Newton first groped and kissed the girl, she was too frightened to tell anyone. The nature of the offending got progressively worse including touching the girl's private parts and simulating a sex act with her. Newton's offending came to light when the abused girl confided in a teacher. Passing sentence, Mr Justice Wakerley said the case represented an enormous breach of trust.
West Yorkshire Police probationary officer, Simon Dagger, downloaded pictures of naked children from an American pornography site and was snared by police in the Operation Ore crackdown on internet child pornography. Appearing at Leeds Crown Court in April 2003, 24-year-old Dagger, from Pontefract, wept when he was told he would not be jailed for having around 45 indecent images of children stored on his computer. DC Mick Vause (see above) was also from Pontefract and, like Vause, Dagger received a three-year Community Rehabilitation Order with a condition of attendance on a sex-offender treatment programme.
The Court was told that Dagger accessed the child images from a library' of around 8,000 photographs stored on the computer. The vast majority were legal adult material with a handful of images involving children falling into the most serious category. He admitted five sample charges of possessing indecent images of children and was ordered to sign the sex-offender register for five years (ending 2008).
Dagger was adamant that he didn't get any sexual gratification from these images and it was his curiosity which spiralled out of control. Paedophile Vause also produced the same excuse with his famous line to the Judge: Curiosity killed the cat, Ma'am'
Now we uncover, in March 2013, yet another pervert that is running loose in the community who formerly worked for a significant period of his police career at Killingbeck, the same police station as PC Michael Conlon (see above). PC 3917 Gary Simpson, aged 41, was convicted in March 2010 on 20 charges of making and possessing indecent images under the Protection of Children Act 1978. He was also made the subject of a Sex Prevention Order under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. His computer was also confiscated which is a concern as it is known that at least one paedophile was operating at the time in the Professional Standards Department of West Yorkshire Police. DCMichael Vause has since been convicted of child pornography offences.
A jail term indicates that the images discovered on Simpson's hard drive were of a serious nature as only Level 4 or Level 5 images would normally attract a custodial sentence. Simpson was unmasked as a paedophile only when he showed the images to a fellow officer, who reported his concerns to supervisors.
The latest two West Yorkshire Police officers to be arrested on sex offences by their own Professional Standards officers are PCSO Liam Austerfield, a Wakefield Division NPT officer who was suspended in early April 2013 pending the outcome of criminal enquiries and then resigned just one week later. Austerfield was involved at the Brick House Youth Club in Ossett and uPSD understand that some of the alleged offences are connected to those duties. He was subsequently re-arrested for possession of indecent material shortly after the first arrest which, uPSD understands, followed a search of his home and siezing of Austerfield's property, including his computer. Austerfield appeared at Barnsley Magistrates on Friday 24th May, 2013 charged with indecent image offences and inciting a child to have sex offences. He was committed to Sheffield Crown Court for a plea hearing on 31st May 2013. He was bailed with conditions that include no unsupervised access to children under 16 years old. At the trial which concluded on 19th September 2013 Austerfield was jailed for 15 months. Judge Roger Keen QC said: Instead of behaving properly, you abused the trust the community placed in you in order to gain sexual satisfaction. You have brought a great deal of distress to your own family but more importantly your actions have had a profound effect on your victim and her family. Your position if further aggravated because of your work at the time and takes this well outside the appropriate guidelines. You corrupted this girl and as a consequence her life has been greatly affected'. Austerfield had been found to have beengrooming a local 14-year-old schoolgirl online and begging her to send him explicit pictures. Austerfield had over 300 exchanges with the child by text and Facebook when police seized his mobile phone, laptop and computer and, during one exchange, he sent an indecent picture of himself and told her: If you want to see more you have to show more'.
Response officer, PC Kevin Ellis from Castleford was arrested in mid-April after child porn images were found on his computer. He committed suicide the day after he was released on bail. For full story on the background to the arrest of Ellis click here. Once again, Ellis's local newspaper, the aforementioned Pontefract & Castleford Express, are happy to ignore the potential connection with the other two police officer paedophiles in a relatively small circulation area but gave substantial coverage to the jailing of a 75 year old paedophile member of the public in the same week.
This takes the West Yorkshire Police paedophile count to ten, if Austerfield is convicted, and uPSD fully expect more police paedophiles to be unmasked in the coming weeks, as our network of informants/investigators grows. We have a very strong lead concerning another Pontefract CID colleagues of Vause's, with a predeliction for under-age girls, who also lived in a village close to Vause's Wentbridge home. A third Pontefract detective has also been named by an informant also in connection with sex with under-age girls.
Throughout this process of exposing West Yorkshire Police child abusers we have been obstructed at every turn by West Yorkshire Police, and their devious co-conspirators at the Police Authority, but this is an issue of massive public interest and importance, particularly in the light of Jimmy Savile operating unfettered in Leeds for over 40 years by his local police force. Police & Crime Commissioner, Mark Burns-Williamson, occupied the Chairman's seat at the now defunct and disgraced West Yorkshire Police Authority during the entire period when these paedophiles have been exposed and has, on the face of it, chosen to look the other way. Burns Williamson also lives in Castleford, significantly enough.
Burns-Williamson's Vice Chair was dodgy long-term Leeds City Councillor and ex-Mayor of Leeds,Les Carter. What did he know about Jimmy Savile's rape and paedophile activities over the entire 40 years he has been a Councillor. Nothing at all, Mr Carter? Well, not quite. We do know that you put forward Savile to be the face of a crime prevention campaign in 2008 called Talking Signs in your role as Chairman of Safer Leeds Board (read here). The police officer running the campaign in his role as Community Safety Officer was none other than serial flasher, Sgt Ian Poskitt. Is it a coincidence that the police and Police Authority went to extraordinary lengths to conceal Poskitt's first two offences from public view?
Finally, why would Mr Vause be attending the Authority's last ever meeting in November 2012, which you chaired, when he was a convicted paedophile and then belatedly give apologies almost as the meeting started when it was realised that investigative journalist, Neil Wilby, was present at the same meeting?
What a tangled web we weave.