The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall?

[Jan Klimkowski]

King Jimmy had the Keys to the Castle.

Royal castles.

Lunatic asylums.

Orphanages.

Hospitals.

Pauper wings....

Jimmy Savile spent nights with girls in hospital rooms, says Leeds porter

Leeds general infirmary worker says BBC star arrived in early hours of morning with teenagers and took them to nurses' rooms

Robert Booth

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 31 October 2012 12.54 GMT



Jimmy Savile took over staff bedrooms reserved for surgeons and nurses at Leeds general infirmary to spend nights with teenage girls, often two at a time, a porter who worked alongside Savile when he volunteered at the hospital has told the Guardian.

Savile did shifts at the Yorkshire infirmary from at least 1968 and was known for cheerily pushing patients on trolley beds into operating theatres. But he was also exploiting his access to bring girls, apparently from outside the hospital, some suspected to be under 16, into staff rooms in the early hours of the morning, according to Terry Pratt, who worked as a porter at the hospital until about a year ago.

"He would come in about 1am or 2am because there were bedrooms up there and he could get out of the way," said Pratt, who worked night shifts and witnessed Savile bring different pairs of girls in, "one on each arm", during 1981 and 1982. "He would say 'hello' to the shift leader, 'can I go in the nurses rooms again?' He would come about two times a week, say on a Monday and again on a Thursday. It was debatable whether the girls were 16. They were definitely in their teens. When they started talking to you it was obvious they weren't streetwise, especially being out at that time in the morning. It was different people each time and he never brought them back through our room. There was always a car waiting. On one occasion when I went for a breath of fresh air I saw the girls get into the back and he would get into the driver's seat and drive them off."

Pratt said the rooms were intended for nurses and travelling specialist surgeons and Savile knew they were often empty. He would use them despite having a home in the Roundhay suburb of Leeds less than three miles from the hospital. They are now used as administrative offices by the Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust which is facing parallel Metropolitan police and Department of Health inquiries into Savile's activities.

The name of a doctor who allegedly collaborated with the star in child abuse at Leeds general has been reported to Scotland Yard detectives and June Thornton, a former nurse at the infirmary, earlier this month said Savile molested a brain-damaged young girl who was a patient at the hospital. Thornton was recovering from an operation herself when she said she saw Savile "kissing her neck, running his hands up and down her arms, and then started to molest her".


The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is understood to treating the claims with caution and is seeking information from other porters who worked at Leeds general hospital when Savile was a volunteer.

"The trust is in contact with senior detectives from the Metropolitan police and we have indicated our intention to help with their inquiries," a spokesman said. "If there are any issues which need to be addressed following the police investigation then we will take action." "We are shocked at the nature and extent of the very serious allegations which continue to be made against Jimmy Savile," a spokesman said.

"We have already made it clear we do not have any record of complaints about Jimmy Savile's behaviour made during the time he was a volunteer and charity supporter at Leeds general infirmary or at any of our other hospitals."

The spokesman conceded that records for the hospital going back to the 1980s and before were difficult to search because of changes in governance structures.

"Since then we are aware there have been allegations about incidents said to have taken place at the hospital, which clearly are of great concern to us. This whole matter needs to be looked into fully and we are currently giving every co-operation to the police."

In 1974, several years after he started volunteering, Savile told the Guardian he had "a guilt feeling" about his work at Leeds general, Broadmoor and Stoke Mandeville.

"I get so much enjoyment working in these places that I should actually be paying them to allow me in," he said.

"It took me 10 minutes to do my job at the BBC today. I can come back here, but what can I do for the rest of the day? If you want to have a booze-up, you have a booze-up but that doesn't turn me on."

[Jan Klimkowski]

Savile at Broadmoor, home of the criminally insane and vulnerable.

Preying on those without a voice that would be believed.

Broadmoor: Savile was 'a lunatic in charge of the asylum'

Channel 4 News, October 31, 2012

Questions were raised inside Broadmoor, the high-security psychiatric complex where staff laughed about Mr Savile's psychopathic tendencies and where paedophiles gravitated toward him.

Channel 4 News spoke to staff who worked at Broadmoor 24 years ago when staff said Mr Savile roamed the corridors with a set of keys and the freedom to go anywhere. He mingled repeatedly with the 800 or so patients, many teenage girls, some severely disturbed and medicated.

Jimmy Savile was one of Britain's biggest stars during the 1960s and 1970s - and, allegedly, one of its worst sexual predators. He started out as a dance hall DJ, then in the early 1960s he hosted the music programme Top of the Pops and later "Jim'll Fix It," a TV show in which he made young viewers' wishes come true. But Broadmoor staff considered him a psychopath.

"I'd long considered him, as did my colleagues did, as a man with a severe personality disorder and a liking for children," Richard Harrison, a psychiatric nurse at Broadmoor for 30 years during Savile's tenure told Channel 4 News.

Paedophiles were drawn to him

Talk about the entertainer being a paedophile was common among staff and paedophile patients - who gravitated toward him - staff said. But Jimmy Savile lived in an era of social transformation. He was not charged or put on trial during his lifetime and died a year ago, two days short of his 85th birthday.

"I'd say he was a psychopath," said Bob Allen, a staff nurse at the time. "A lot of the staff said he should be behind bars. We used to laugh about it in those days."

Mr Allen described one evening when he saw the BBC entertainer in a car with a young girl who appeared to be 14 or 15 years old. Savile and the girl went into the flat the star had been given to use at Broadmoor. As Mr Allen walked away, the lights in the flat dimmed but nobody came out. He said he reported it to his supervisor, who he believes did refer the matter up, but was told the following day that "no one appears to be interested."



Considered a flamboyant character, hopping around, flirting with patients and acting in an off-the-wall manner, Jimmy Savile's celebrity dazzled and silenced, staff said. And he was not just a visitor, for a time he was in charge. In 1988, Health Minister Edwina Currie appointed Savile to head up a task force to run the hospital.

The lunatics are in charge

The response from staff? "The lunatics have taken over the asylum."

But at the time, it was also a period of change where the old, grim Victorian accommodation was trying to upgrade and improve care for the mentally ill. Mr Savile was given extraordinary power and a set of keys with complete access to every part of the hospital, the staff told Channel 4 News.

The Ministry of Health said Savile was made chairman of the task force in a move to liberate the culture. With his gold tracksuits, big cigars and jocular persona some thought he was a harmless eccentric. Broadmoor staff may have had a different opinion but not much appears to have been done about it.

In one particularly unnerving incident, Mr Savile told staff to supply disturbed, medicated patients with a drink at Christmas, despite their doctors' orders. Mr Savile then left the ward and returned 30 minutes later with beer, Mr Harrison said.

"The consultant, when he discovered what he had done, was furious," Mr Harrison said.

Savile help appointed new chief executive

Mr Savile's task force ran the Broadmoor for 15 months and the disc jockey continued to have a power in its management after that. He was involved in the appointment of Alan Franey as new chief executive - a friend of Savile's from Leeds who ran the marathon with him.

According to the staff, they felt their concerns had been raised about the appropriateness of Mr Savile's presence and power at the hospital. As far as they were concerned, there was nothing more they could do.

Since allegations about Savile were broadcast in an ITV documentary several weeks ago, some 300 alleged victims have come forward saying they were abused by the entertainer in various places, including BBC dressing rooms and the hospitals he visited.

Officers now investigating the allegations have said that the Savile case will be a watershed moment in combating child abuse, but for the patients of Broadmoor, it will be too little, too late.

[Lauren Johnson]

Sneaking children into 10 Downing. Sneaking children into the While House. Just what is the "special relationship" between England and the U.S?

[Anthony Thorne]

From earlier in the thread -

"Speculative hypothesis: Savile was part of a paedophile ring that procured vulnerable children for abuse by politicians, the wealthy and the influential. Knowledge and evidence of the abuse was used to blackmail the influential, probably with British intelligence oversight."

I have some pages of links gathered, notes taken and - separate to those - private comments passed to me by Core of Corruption director Jonathan Elinoff which I've been sitting on for a couple of months, as I lack the energy at the moment to properly collate them and do all the evident connections justice - it's a big story, and there are many - but the quoted paragraph above rings numerous bells in relation to the thread I started on the 9/11 page, where Elinoff's concurrent investigations into the Pat Sullivan saga and 9/11 eventually entered territory which made him pack up his bags and walk away from all future investigative work. Jeff Wells at the Rigorous Intuition board wrote the following in 2008, and it was prescient. (Note - after featuring BIG WEDDING author Sander Hicks in his first film, Elinoff had turned some of the focus of his second film, Echoes of Treason, to the story of Delmart Vreeland - profiled elsewhere by Hicks - and began investigating the story anew. As detailed in the 'Core' thread, Elinoff's work on Vreeland - who purportedly gained knowledge of the 9/11 plot prior to the attacks - was then diverted at the final hour when he spearheaded an investigation into Sullivan. Vreeland was arrested on abuse charges in 2008, and is currently in a Colorado prison. Colorado Sheriff Sullivan was arrested on similar charges late last year, then walked free this year).

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"…I spoke to Vreeland's former Toronto attorney tonight. He doesn't believe Vreeland capable of the crimes and thinks he was set up. For myself, the entanglement of 9/11, spooks and paedophilia seems more disturbingly complicated than that.

Andy Stephenson was a confidant of Vreeland, and before these charges surfaced he told me Vreeland alluded to a history of covert abuse very much like the Franklin Cover-Up.

IMO, Vreeland's a pathological liar and a spook, so I can't say with any certainty what his story really is. (Or even if he knows his own story.) But I'm pretty certain it's a troubling one."

[Magda Hassan]

From earlier in the thread -

"Speculative hypothesis: Savile was part of a paedophile ring that procured vulnerable children for abuse by politicians, the wealthy and the influential. Knowledge and evidence of the abuse was used to blackmail the influential, probably with British intelligence oversight."

I have some pages of links gathered, notes taken and - separate to those - private comments passed to me by Core of Corruption director Jonathan Elinoff which I've been sitting on for a couple of months, as I lack the energy at the moment to properly collate them and do all the evident connections justice - it's a big story, and there are many - but the quoted paragraph above rings numerous bells in relation to the thread I started on the 9/11 page, where Elinoff's concurrent investigations into the Pat Sullivan saga and 9/11 eventually entered territory which made him pack up his bags and walk away from all future investigative work. Jeff Wells at the Rigorous Intuition board wrote the following in 2008, and it was prescient. (Note - after featuring BIG WEDDING author Sander Hicks in his first film, Elinoff had turned some of the focus of his second film, Echoes of Treason, to the story of Delmart Vreeland - profiled elsewhere by Hicks - and began investigating the story anew. As detailed in the 'Core' thread, Elinoff's work on Vreeland - who purportedly gained knowledge of the 9/11 plot prior to the attacks - was then diverted at the final hour when he spearheaded an investigation into Sullivan. Vreeland was arrested on abuse charges in 2008, and is currently in a Colorado prison. Colorado Sheriff Sullivan was arrested on similar charges late last year, then walked free this year).

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"…I spoke to Vreeland's former Toronto attorney tonight. He doesn't believe Vreeland capable of the crimes and thinks he was set up. For myself, the entanglement of 9/11, spooks and paedophilia seems more disturbingly complicated than that.

Andy Stephenson was a confidant of Vreeland, and before these charges surfaced he told me Vreeland alluded to a history of covert abuse very much like the Franklin Cover-Up.

IMO, Vreeland's a pathological liar and a spook, so I can't say with any certainty what his story really is. (Or even if he knows his own story.) But I'm pretty certain it's a troubling one."

Thanks for this Anthony. It is very intriguing what you have alluded to.

[Magda Hassan]

The Can of Worms Which is the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal

Today, emboldened by public outrage, the Savile revelations, and Tom Watson MP's question at PMQs, The Mail on Sunday carries the allegations that former MP and aide to Margaret Thatcher, Sir Peter Morrison, was implicated in the North Wales Paedophile cover-up.

A former Tory Minister last night made incendiary claims that one of Margaret Thatcher's closest aides was implicated in one of the most harrowing child abuse scandals of recent times.
Rod Richards, a former Conservative MP and ex-leader of the Welsh Tories, made the shocking allegation that he had seen evidence linking Sir Peter Morrison to the North Wales children's homes case, in which up to 650 children in 40 homes were sexually, physically and emotionally abused over 20 years.
Mr Richards also linked a second leading Tory grandee now dead to the scandals at homes including Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn Hall, both near Wrexham.

More at the Mail

Believe me when I tell you that this is a huge can of worms for the UK Government. So much so that Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC imposed an injunction on the press from telling the public the truth. That is the reason why the second Tory grandee' despite being named by Rod Richards has not been named by the Mail because there is a specific injunction against the press naming him, even though he is now dead and can't sue for libel.

PUBLIC FIGURES NAMED IN PAEDOPHILE RINGGuadian, October 15th, 1997

Policemen, social workers and prominent public figures have been accused of belonging to a paedophile ring which indulged in a relentless campaign of physical and sexual abuse in children's homes in North Wales.
The names of the alleged members of the ring have been given by witnesses in public sessions of the North Wales Child Abuse Tribunal, but they have been suppressed by the tribunal's chairman, Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC, who has threatened the media with High Court proceedings if they print them.
The Guardian today publishes for the first time detailed evidence about the alleged ring, which is said to have been based in Wrexham, and to have infiltrated local children's homes over a 20 year period.
Witnesses claim that members of the ring used their connections with police and social services to conceal their activities. All of the accused have denied the allegations.
Those named to the tribunal include: A man who bears the same surname as a prominent Conservative supporter. Two witnesses have told the tribunal of a rich and powerful man who belonged to the alleged ring.
The son of an influential peer who admitted to police that he had been having sex with an under-age boy from one of the homes. Despite his admission, he was never prosecuted.
A powerful public official who has previously been cleared of abuse. Six witnesses have given separate accounts to the tribunal of his alleged rape of young boys. Another has reported him attending parties in Wrexham which were supplied with boys from a children's home.
Two social workers and two police officers, one of whom was accused of abuse on four separate occasions and exonerated each time, another of whom has since been jailed in another part of the country for gross indecency with a child.
More than a dozen other local men, including an executive with a local authority, a senior probation officer and a director of a major company.
All those named as members of the alleged ring have denied the charges, either in evidence to the tribunal or through their lawyers.
When the tribunal was established last year, it had been assumed that the press could report its proceedings, using the laws of privilege which allow them to name names from court cases and public hearings without fear of libel actions.
However, Sir Ronald then ruled that the media could not report the name of any living person who was accused or likely to be accused of abusing children in the North Wales homes unless they had previously been convicted of such an offence.
Since then he has extended his ruling twice: he has granted anonymity to one man who died 16 years ago and to another who has twice been convicted of sexually assaulting boys from a North Wales home.
Sir Ronald has argued that his ruling will encourage alleged paedophiles to come froward and give honest evidence without fear of retribution. Critics say this is unnecessary, since he has the power to compel witnesses to attend, and that those who have come forward have done so to deny the allegations and not to make a clean breast of their alleged offences.
One lawyer who has been involved with the tribunal said he feared that the anonymity ruling was actively discouraging witnesses. "Newspaper readers may well have information of potential value to this tribunal. They may themselves have been the victims of abuse, or they may have worked with the alleged abusers. But if the press is not allowed to inform them of the names of those against whom allegations are made, they will not learn that their information is important. So they will not come forward."
The tribunal was ordered by the last Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, William Hague, after Clwyd county council decided not to publish the report of an independent inquiry into allegations of abuse in its children's homes. The tribunal, which has been hearing witnesses for eight months, is expected to continue to take evidence until January.

Source Here

But with the Foreign Secretary implicated by his role as the former Welsh Secretary, will the full horrible truth finally come out or will, as I suspect, the potential consequences be so incendiary that the cover-up will continue, albeit with one or two worms escaping from the can ?
What I can say is that there will be a number of prominent people, including at least one sitting MP, a peer of the realm, and members of the Bar and Judiciary implicated in the scandal and subsequent cover-up who will be extremely concerned at the turn the public mood has taken and the Government's apparent inability to keep a lid on it all by keeping it contained to TV celebrities.
Understand that the press have known the names of those implicated since the Waterhouse cover-up. They have been muzzled and they don't like it and now , perhaps, they see there is an opportunity to finally reveal the truth.
In the year following the Waterhouse report, 140 compensation claims were settled with victims of the abuse.
Remember, that Tom Watson MP has explicitly said that he was not alluding to Sir Peter Morrison when he spoke of an aide to a former Prime Minister implicated during the Peter Righton investigation. Source [that is an altogether different can of worms. Information on that can be found here.]
All of those implicated in the North Wales scandal happen to be Tories and so you may rightly ask why the Labour Party haven't exposed those who were implicated……………or you might ask instead what the Tories have on Labour Party politicians because the only thing that has kept the lid on all of this is mutually assured destruction.
The modus operandi of the foot soldiers of establishment cover-up always blame and discredit the victims but right now the public have more sympathy and a greater understanding of how child abuse can go on and effect an individual in later life. Yes, after being abused from a young age some of these boys from care homes went on to become rent boys, took drugs, and have criminal records. This is hardly surprising considering they were buggered, abused, and passed around from pillar to post until they left the care home system and then dumped on the street, and yet the consequences of their abuse is then used to show that these are not trusted' witnesses.
I just hope that the public remain understanding and sympathetic to the victim's position.

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[Magda Hassan]

Time for another outing of Nick Davies' article from 1998

The sheer scale of child sexual abuse in Britain

The Guardian

Published April 1998 One comment... »
In November last year, every newspaper in Britain carried the story of how Scotland Yard had worked with police forces around the country to raid the rooms of teachers at private schools in search of evidence of their involvement in a paedophile ring. The more interesting story, however, was the raid which never happened.
In the weeks before the operation, specialist detectives from the Paedophile Unit at Scotland Yard had discussed with Thames Valley the possibility of raiding a teacher at the most prestigious private school in the country Eton College, whose pupils include the off-spring of some of the most powerful families in Britain, including the heir to the throne, Prince William.
The move started after a teacher who had recently left Eton went to Thames Valley police and claimed that one of his colleagues had been indecently assaulting boys at the school. Detectives investigated and discovered that the suspect teacher had been the target of similar allegations in the past; and that police in Yorkshire had seized a collection of child pornography and found letters from the teacher in which he referred to "sending the happy items".
Clearly, this did not amount to proof that the teacher was guilty. His former colleague may conceivably have had a grudge against him; the letters in Yorkshire may have had some innocent explanation; other witnesses who also suspected him, may simply have been mistaken. But the whole series of raids was being mounted on similar intelligence which Scotland Yard believed was strong enough to demand that suspects be interviewed and their property searched. Yet when the raids finally took place, Thames Valley held back, arguing that the evidence was too weak to justify action.
The result: the truth about the suspected abuser was never found.
Earlier last year, the Guardian revealed the international police hunt for two unidentified men who had made the "Bjorn tape", a chilling video which recorded their relentless sexual assault on an adolescent Dutch boy who was carried in front of the camera, limp and hooded, before being strapped into a chair where he was defenceless against the indulgence of his two attackers.
Following the story in the Guardian, which was linked to an ITV documentary, Dutch police traced Bjorn's accent to an area in the north of Holland, where they combed through files of reported child abuse and found him. It turned out that he had contacted the authorities a year earlier to complain that a Dutch man, whom he named, had been drugging and raping him since he was only three years old, most recently with the assistance of an English man. The Dutch man had been tried and in the absence of the video he had been acquitted. He had then sued Bjorn for making a malicious complaint against him. Bjorn had collapsed into mental illness and been given refuge in an orphanage.
Now, the tape not only proved that the boy had been telling the truth in all its grim detail, but it also confirmed the identity of the English man who had taken part. He is John Peters, a former soldier who went AWOL in the early 1970s after being charged with having sex with a 14-year-old boy in public toilets near his base in Sutton Coldfield. Since then, Peters has been convicted in Denmark of a separate offence of child abuse.
Although Bjorn's Dutch abuser is now due to be tried again in Holland, Peters remains at liberty. Just as he evaded the police in Sutton Coldfield in the 1970s, so now he has evaded them again in Holland, simply by crossing a border. He is believed to be in Asia, whose population of impoverished and vulnerable children has become a magnet for paedophiles and whose police have no active intelligence link with the British or Dutch. The result: the abuser has escaped.
That same story in the Guardian also disclosed the activities of Warwick Spinks, a British paedophile who was then serving a sentence of five years after Scotland Yard arrested him for abducting and raping two homeless boys from the streets of London. He had sold one of them into a brothel in Amsterdam.
Spinks is a paedophile of grandiose ambition, a man who has commercialised his obsession, first by running an agency in Britain which sold boys to like-minded punters, and then by moving to Amsterdam where, as the Guardian disclosed, he worked in brothels and joined a group of British men who produced videos in which five boys were alleged to have been raped and murdered for the pleasure of viewers.
As he approached the end of his five-year sentence, Spinks was transferred from prison to a probation hostel in south London where, last September, he was asked to fill in a form so that the police could enter his details on the new register of sex offenders. He is precisely the kind of compulsive offender for whom the register was designed so that police can keep an eye on their movements. Spinks, however, refused to fill in the form.
He simply walked away from the hostel and sent his probation officer a postcard with an invitation to come and see him in Amsterdam. Since then, he has travelled to Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Moscow and Prague pursuing his own special interests with never a care for the sex offenders' register or any other limb of the child protection system. The result: another abuser has escaped.
The sexual abuse of children is a special crime, not simply because of the damage it does to its victims, nor even because of the anger and fear it provokes in communities, but more particularly because it is so easy easy to commit, easy to get away with.
Recently, it has broken into the headlines, through the communal fear of a handful of child killers like Robert Oliver and Sidney Cooke; in the exhumation of the crimes of Mary Bell; with the reluctant resignation of Grampian's Chief Constable following his force's bungled inquiry into a paedophile murder. But the debate that has followed has been fragmentary and confused, discoloured by populist reactions from ministers.
Over the last six months, the Guardian has conducted the most detailed and exhaustive investigation of paedophilia that has ever been undertaken by a British newspaper. We have tracked down abusers and their victims, we have spoken to the social workers and detectives and Customs officers who deal with them, to private agencies and to the most senior officials who lead the defence against child abuse.
We have seen the results of courageous work by thousands of dedicated men and women but also we have seen the results of cover-up and concealment, occasionally of corruption, of whistleblowers who are punished for trying to expose the truth, of local authorities, churches and other organisations who have closed ranks to deny or conceal allegations against their staff.
In an investigation of this, the most secret of crimes, we have found evidence of what is an open secret among many of those who fight it that after twenty years of scandal and alarm, after numerous inquiries and reports, and despite the best efforts of those who work in it, we have created an elaborate and sophisticated failure, a child protection system which does not protect the children.
The origin of the problem is the easiness of the crime, the violent equivalent of taking candy from babies. It is physically easier for a rapist to overpower a child than an adult, to subdue a victim who has less than half his body-weight. In February of this year, for example, police reported that a paedophile had boarded a train outside Brighton one evening and abducted not one, but three young boys, aged between eight and eleven. Police said that the man forced the three boys to get off in the village of Glynde, where he marched them into the public toilets and indecently assaulted all three of them before threatening to kill them, raping one of them and putting them all back on the train.
Equally, it is easier to confuse a child than an adult. A woman who spent four years from the age of seven being raped regularly by her stepfather, told the Guardian she had never thought to complain: "I thought it was normal, I thought everyone was going home from school and being hurt by their dad." Children have emerged from abuse to report variously that they were told that there was a bomb inside them which would explode if they disclosed what was happening; that there was no point in telling because no one would believe them and they would be put into care; or, commonly, that the abusive parent would be sent to prison, thus destroying the family and bringing hardship and misery to the other parent.
Children are conned by their abusers in a way that no adult would be. Bruce McLean, for example, who is serving nine years for indecent assaults in Cheshire, was using Manchester United tickets to entrap boys. A man who is now awaiting trial for producing a small orgy of child pornography videos in the north of England bought adolescent girls with Kentucky Fried Chicken and toffees, according to one who has spoken to the Guardian.
The ease of the crime is reflected in its scale. No one knows the exact numbers, but to construct a picture is to watch an arithmetical explosion. Start with a hard fact. At the last count, there were 2,100 child sex abusers behind the bars of British jails. Now think of all those who have previously been convicted but who have been released back into the community. You have to multiply by 50: according to the Home Office Research Department, there are 108,000 convicted paedophiles in the community.
Now, think of all the child victims who are conned and confused and never report their abuse in the first place; and all those cases which are reported but which fall short of the demands of the courts; and all those cases of rape and indecent assault which are convicted but which are not statistically recorded as crimes against children. At the most conservative estimate, the NSPCC and specialist police agree with studies here and in the United States, that the official figures for convictions record no more than ten per cent of the paedophile population. Which means that today in Britain, there are probably 1.1 million paedophiles at large. Other studies suggest that the figure is very much higher.
This vast scale appears to be confirmed by "prevalance studies" which take samples of the population and establish how many were childhood victims of sexual abuse. In the UK, the United States, Germany, Switzerland and Australia, studies consistently find that around 20% of women and around 8% of men suffered sexual abuse as children. In the current population of UK children, that would cover 1.5 million girls and 520,000 boys, a figure that is consistent with the projection of 1.1 million offenders.
Child sex abuse is not only easy to commit, it is also easy to get away with. It is the least reported crime on the planet. Numerous victims say that they were silenced by their own emotions the same emotions which gag the adult victims of rape, but which are magnified in a child's mind. Some children simply cannot report it: social workers in East Sussex four years ago found paedophiles deliberately targetting children who were too disabled to give evidence. Others had picked children who were terminally ill and who died before the system could catch up with them.
Those children who do report what has happened to them are uniquely likely to find their stories rejected. Often, like the adult victims of indecent assault, they will have nothing but their own word as evidence. And the word of a child is viewed with suspicion from one end of the criminal justice system to the other. It is for that reason that the tribunal of inquiry into abuse in children's homes in North Wales is only now attempting to get to the truth of hundreds of complaints which were first made by children up to 20 years ago to council officials, doctors, social workers and parents who, almost without exception, believed not a word of it.
North Wales is only the beginning. It is now clear that during the last 30 years, children's homes in Britain suffered an epidemic of rape and violent assault. It was an epidemic that went unnoticed, like a plague that struck dumb its victims or else blinded those around it.
There are now literally thousands of men and women, in North Wales, South Wales, Manchester, Liverpool, Sunderland, Northumbria, Edinburgh in seventeen different police areas in all who have come forward to make detailed, credible allegations about their childhoods of abuse in care. The combined force of these different inquiries amounts to the biggest contemporary police operation in the country. And yet, at the time that these people were children, at the time that they were being used as human aids to masturbation, just about all of them were overlooked by just about every agency that was supposed to protect them the police, social workers, the Social Services Inspectorate, health visitors, doctors.
The passage of time, itself, often allows abusers to escape. In Cardiff, Paul Conibeer, who is now aged 28, is trying to persuade the police to prosecute Alan Williams, Lee Tucker and John Gay for buggering him and passing him around their friends when he was a 13-year-old in care. The three men have since been convicted of paedophile offences and become involved in the abuse of children in Portugal and Amsterdam, where they shared their pleasures with Warwick Spinks. Police in Cardiff, however, say Conibeer's story is too old to be proved. Conibeer has a grim alternative: "I'm giving it a year. If nothing is done in a year, I'm doing it my own way. If I can take three scum off the street that would be my debt paid back to society, because I have been a bad bastard in my time."
The fact that the sexual abuse of children is so hidden is not entirely the result of the age its victims. This is also a crime of conspiracy, of the abuse of power and, from time to time, of incidents which suggest that a paedophile with prestige may be more likely to escape justice than a more humble offender.
For example, police now invest relatively little time in the surveillance of public toilets where gay men go cottaging. The one thing that is likely still to trigger such an operation is a complaint that under-aged boys are involved unless, that is, the toilets in question happen to be those behind the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, in which case, under the terms of a long-standing Metropolitan Police policy, the operation will take place only if it has the approval of an officer of the rank of commander or above. According to experienced London officers, the reason is that those toilets are used by High Court judges and barristers, and the Metropolitan Police have always said they do not want to encounter such a powerful offender without special authority.
Fleet Street routinely nurtures a crop of untold stories about powerful abusers who have evaded justice. One such is Peter Morrison, formerly the MP for Chester and the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Ten years ago, Chris House, the veteran crime reporter for the Sunday Mirror, twice received tip-offs from police officers who said that Morrison had been caught cottaging in public toilets with underaged boys and had been released with a caution. A less powerful man, the officers complained, would have been charged with gross indecency or an offence against children.
At the time, Chris House confronted Morrison, who used libel laws to block publication of the story. Now, Morrison is dead and cannot sue. Police last week confirmed that he had been picked up twice and never brought to trial. They added that there appeared to be no trace of either incident in any of the official records.
A lot of paedophiles are loners. The NSPCC found that 70% of them were closely related to their victim and, contrary to popular belief, they were not always men. Dr Michelle Elliott from Kidscape says she has dealt with more than 700 cases of women sexually abusing children and that she takes on one or two new such cases each week. Academics who have analysed the history of sexually abused children on the At Risk register have found that one in three were assaulted by adolescent or pre-adolescent children. The Young Abusers Project in London, has dealt with one abuser who was only seven years old.
Even though most abusers whatever their age or sex work alone, there is clear evidence of some conspiracy, of the existence of paedophile rings, sometimes deliberately infiltrating parts of the child protection system, often taking advantage of each other's political or social power to conceal their activities.
Researchers at Manchester University trawled the records of eight police areas in search of cases of organised abuse and they concluded that nationally they would expect to find 242 cases every year where children were the victims of adults who had colluded together to use them for sex. They noted, in line with other specialist researchers, that these official records probably captured only one tenth of the truth. It is these cases of organised abuse which present some of the most frightening incidents.
Some are never brought to trial like the group of men who were believed by police to be abducting homeless girls from the streets of London in the early 1990s and holding them in a converted garage with padded walls, where they were being abused and finally killed. The closest they came to being caught was when the man who was said to be disposing of the girls' bodies, for £2,000 a time, was identified by Number Eight Regional Crime Squad, in Wales, as an ex-convict, a man with a history of spectacular violence who was living in Cardiff. Police investiged him but were unable to identify those who had hired him or to find evidence to charge him.
Others come to trial only partially like Robert Oliver and Sidney Cooke and their friends who together abducted, drugged, raped and killed Jason Swift, Barry Lewes and Mark Tildesley. They were convicted of manslaughter. Officers from Operation Orchid were frustrated, first because there was insufficient evidence to convict them of murder, and, second, because they were never able to bring any charges at all in relation to six other boys who, they believed, had also died at the hands of the same ring.
Often the links between abusers lie beneath the surface of less horrific conspiracies. Take, for example, the case of Greystone Heath, an approved school for boys in Warrington, which for years enjoyed an unsullied reputation until police finally discovered that it had become a hot spot for paedophiles. This one institution whose history of abuse is echoed now in scores of others is a model of everyday paedophile collusion.
It appears to have started in 1965 when a 21-year-old student teacher named Keith Laverack went to work there and embarked on a campaign of buggery and indecent assault. Over the ensuing four years, he raped at least 16 boys, three of whom he shared with his colleague, Brian Percival, the clerk and storeman at the home. Once these two men had established sexual rights over the boys at Greystone, other abusers joined the staff: Alan Langshaw, who raped at least 24 boys; Dennis Grain who raped at least 18; Roy Shuttleworth who raped at least ten; Jack Bennett who indecently assaulted two; and Steve Norris who assaulted an unknown number.
The Greystone abusers then fanned out. Keith Laverack went to childrens' homes in Cambridgeshire; Alan Langshaw became Principal of St Vincent's Catholic boys' home in Formby; Grain and Shuttleworth were both promoted to other homes in the Warrington area; Steve Norris went to North Wales. At their new homes, all of them continued to rape boys who were in their care and wherever they went, they crossed the paths of other paedophiles.
In Cambridgeshire, Keith Laverack worked with numerous colleagues, four of whom are now also suspected of abusing children. Dennis Grain worked in Doncaster for the same group of private schools as Terence Hoskins who went on to become headteacher of St Aiden's Community Home in Widnes, where he liked to thrash naked boys with a cane, which he then pushed into their backsides, while his housemaster, Colin Dick, indecently assaulted those who caught his eye. Dennis Grain had previously attacked boys in Danesford childrens' home in Congleton, opening the door to three others, John Clarke, Joseph Smith and Brian Hudson, who set about the boys with relish. Dennis Grain, in the meantime, went off to work at Eton, where he became a housemaster. The web is almost endless.
While he was Principal of St Vincent's, Alan Langshaw recruited a care worker named Edward Stanton, who joined in Langshaw's orgy. Stanton appears to have got the job through the good offices of Roy Shuttleworth, who was continuing to abuse the boys at Greystone and who is believed to have known Stanton from their time in Birmingham when they took the same course in residential child care.
That course in Birmingham, in turn, is believed to have been lectured by Peter Righton, a notorious paedophile who attempted to legitimise his obsession in a series of academic studies. Righton, for his part, belonged to the Paedophile Information Exchange, along with Jack Bennett who joined in the abuse at Greystone. Righton had earlier worked in the same childrens' home in Maidstone, Kent as Peter Howarth, who went on to become a legendary abuser in the homes of North Wales where he shared his indulgence with Steve Norris, formerly of Greystone.
Each of these men claims to have abused alone. Even though their paths connected so frequently, even though the Greystone abusers were assaulting boys in buildings within yards of each other, even though several of them were raping the same boys, they claim never to have colluded with each other. No one who has been involved with investigating Greystone believes them.
The evidence suggests that such abusers not only collude to give each other work and access to children, but also to infiltrate the child protection system. Peter Righton lectured not only in Birmingham but in numerous other colleges. Before he was finally taken to court and convicted, he became a highly regarded consultant in child care and, eventually, the Director of Education at the prestigious National Institute of Social Work in London, a position from which he was able to have some influence on Government policy.
With similar cynicism, Keith Laverack, who opened the catalogue of abuse at Greystone Heath, went on to run the Guardian Ad Litem panel for Cambridgeshire County Council, with the job of representing the interests of children in court cases. This job not only introduced him to the most vulnerable children in the area but also gave him access to files on abused children all over the country. Terence Hoskins, who worked with some of the Greystone abusers, used connections with South Yorkshire police to get access to his own file, from the supposedly secret National Criminal Intelligence Service, NCIS.
Roger Saint who spent years assaulting his foster children in Clwyd secured himself a job on the local adoption panel, from which he could referee complaints about people like himself.


But this is only the beginning. Beyond the inherent difficulty of detecting and preventing this most secret crime, beyond the obstacle course of concealment erected by the collusion of clever paedophiles, the child victims of sexual abuse are betrayed by organisations who repeatedly prefer to avoid embarrassment by concealing awkward allegations and by a system of protection which simply does not work.

http://www.nickdavies.net/1998/04/01/the...n-britain/

[Peter Lemkin]

UK: Pedophile Network & Child Murder Linked to Margaret Thatcher's Tories
4th November 2012

By Dominik Lemanski, Jonathan Corke and Deborah Sherwood
November4, 2012

According to The Sunday Times ("Pressure on police to release paedophile dossier"), 23 April 2006, Strathclyde Police have a dossier listing members of a child-abuse ring. The dossier is said to implicate senior public figures, including senior police officers and members of the Crown Office and former Scottish Office.

A VICTIM of a paedophile ring linked to Margaret Thatcher's Tories believes his two brothers were murdered for trying to expose the truth.

Chris Johns, who begged the Queen to help protect him and his family after the first brother was killed, says he hopes one day there will be a new probe into their deaths. He was speaking as Labour MP Tom Watson who spoke out against the same paedo ring in Parliament said he too is afraid for his safety.

Chris is convinced his brothers were silenced as they began to reveal the full extent of the paedophile network, which wrecked the lives of hundreds of young boys from the late 1960s onwards. Adrian, 32, died in an arson attack before he had chance to give a statement, while brother Leander, 34, was found dead in mysterious *circumstances, below, during the trial of one of his abusers.

Just a handful of men involved in their abuse and that of scores of other children were ever convicted.

Chris himself says he had underage sex with a high court judge and was raped by a police officer who has never faced justice. Our investigations meanwhile suggest at least one Tory peer, a major showbiz star, political figures including a Conservative MP and an agent to a world-famous singer could be implicated.

The ring allegedly spread well beyond North Wales, where the brothers were abused, into London and across Britain. Steven Messham, a victim of the same ring, says he was raped "more than a dozen times" by a "leading politician from the Thatcher years".

And last night Chris said: "I want *recognition of how deep into society this thing goes. These people are utterly ruthless and have their dirty work done by third parties."

The 59-year-old, along with his brothers, were all put into care as children. And that's when they fell into the hands of evil paedophile John Allen, who ran children's homes across North Wales.

In 1992 after years of abuse, Adrian, who had been at the Bryn Alyn home, tried to blackmail Allen by saying he was going to tell all unless he gave him money. According to Chris he had decided to lift the lid on the depravity. But on April 17, 1992, Adrian was killed in an arson attack, which Leander survived with awful burns after jumping to safety. In 1995 both Chris and Leander gave evidence against Allen during a trial.

And that's when Chris wrote to the Queen. The letter, which Chris has given us * permission to publish, shows him begging Her Majesty for help. He wrote: "We were mentally, morally and physically abused as children (most of it will probably never come to light)."

And he added: "Having given our evidence Leander, myself and indeed the rest of my family in Wales are living in great fear of our lives."

An aide to the Queen replied, saying his *letter had been forwarded to the Lord *Chancellor's department and the Prince of Wales. But the only reply was from a representative of the Chancellor's impersonally named *"Customer Service Unit".

Leander, known as Lea, died days later from an *unexpected overdose, which Chris and his family have a*lways questioned. During the week between Lea's evidence and his death, Allen had absconded from bail. His whereabouts were never properly *explained. He claimed he had a breakdown and *wandered lost in an Oxfordshire wood. But £16,500 was taken from his bank accounts during that time.

Chris said: "Leander survived the fire and gave evidence at court but within two days he was dead."

Allen was given six years for sex assaults on boys.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/280...overed-up/
PM to investigate allegations of Downing St paedophile ring

tom watson UK: Pedophile Network & Child Murder Linked to Margaret Thatchers ToriesTom Watson MP demands police investigate claims. Do they refer to Mrs Thatcher's one-time PPS?

The Week, Wed 24 Oct 2012

A LABOUR MP has asked David Cameron to ensure that the police investigate evidence of a "powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and Number 10″.

Tom Watson, the Birmingham MP who led the campaign for an inquiry into phone hacking, told Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions today: "The evidence file used to convict paedophile Peter Righton, if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring.

"One of its members boasts of a link to a senior aide of a former prime minister, who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from abroad.

"The leads were not followed up, but if the files still exist, I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it, and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and Number 10."

Cameron, who had earlier told the Commons that the BBC has "serious questions to answer" over allegations that Jimmy Savile abused children, told Watson he would look into the claims, The Independent reports.

"You raise a very difficult and complex case," said Cameron, "and I'm not sure which former prime minister he is referring to, but what I would like to do is to look very carefully in Hansard to the allegations you have made, the case that you have raised and look very carefully and to see what the Government can do to give you the assurances you seek."

Righton was convicted in 1992. The Guardian, and The Times's David Aaronovitch, suggest that the case Watson was referring to was the subject of an article in The Sunday Times at the weekend.

The article contained a claim by former Conservative minister Edwina Currie that a fellow Tory MP, Sir Peter Morrison, had sex with 16-year-old boys when the age of consent was 21. Morrison was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary and deputy chairman of the party. He died in 1995 at the age of 51.

Currie said: "Was he doing anything illegal? Almost certainly. Would it be illegal today? Hard to tell now the age of consent is down to 16."

She noted that she had first raised the allegation in an autobiography in 2002. An extract from that book reads: "One appointment in the recent reshuffle has attracted a lot of gossip and could be very dangerous: Peter Morrison has become the PM's PPS.

"Now he's what they call a noted pederast', with a liking for young boys; he admitted as much… when he became deputy chairman of the party but added, However, I'm very discreet' and he must be!

"She [Thatcher] either knows and is taking a chance, or doesn't; either way, it's a really dumb move.

"It scares me, as all the press know, and as we get closer to the election someone is going to make trouble very close to her indeed." ·

http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/savile...z2BGeNUUbJ

[Jan Klimkowski]

This thread began with the coverup of the crimes of Haut de la Garenne in Jersey.

Some of DPF's first threads were about the coverup of the Dutroux elite paedophile ring operating in Belgium and across Europe. DPF is proud to host the IGSP archive, the best extant record of those crimes against humanity.

The abuse at Kincora is scorned by the powerful as a "conspiracy theory".

Broadmoor is passed off as a joke.

Now we learn for certain that the official establishment inquiry into the abuse of chlidren in Welsh children's homes, such as Bryn Estyn, in the 1980s, was a farce, with testimony against powerful indviduals excluded, with children threatened and told not to name names.

Paedophile ring inquiry needed to clear 'cover up' claims


The children's commissioner for Wales backs calls for a new inquiry, following new allegations that a senior Tory official was involved in a paedophile ring 30 years ago.


Channel 4 News, November 4 2012


Keith Towler said the only way to clarify what happened to children at the infamous Bryn Estyn estate in Wrexham (pictured below) and to ensure there had been no cover up was to hold a new inquiry.

A victim of the care home scandal of the 1970s and 1980s, where young children were sexually and violently abused by their carers, said that further abuse took place outside the home and was not followed up.

In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Steve Messham claimed that on one occasion he was tied down and raped by several men. Among the group, he alleged, was a leading Conservative official at the time.


He said: "In the home it was the standard abuse, which was violent and sexual. Outside it was like you were sold, we were taken to the Crest Hotel in Wrexham, mainly on Sunday nights, where they would rent rooms," he said.

"One particular night that I always recall is when I was basically raped, tied down and abused by nine different men."

Messham claims that one of those men was a senior Tory official.

However Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick spoke to the individual on Friday, who vehemently denied any involvement in paedophile activity and said if he was named he will sue.



Waterhouse tribunal

A tribunal, led by Sir Ronald Waterhouse, looked into the abuse of hundreds of boys and heard evidence from more than 650 individuals who had been in some 40 homes between 1974 and 1990, publishing its report in 2000.

Messham told Newsnight that his claims about what happened to him outside the home were not followed up at the inquiry, prompting Keith Towler's comments today.

The children commissioner said: "The fact that we have someone on camera now who was clearly a victim of appalling abuse in Bryn Estyn children's home back in the 1970s and 80s, saying that what he wanted to say was outside of the terms of reference, and people told him that he could not say these things and he couldn't talk about people who had abused him, is clearly wrong.

"The fact that he is now saying that and he has now said it so publicly means we have to respond to that."

A spokesman for the Welsh government said they were very concerned about the allegations and would look at all the evidence as it appeared.

'He would have me killed'

The Sunday Express has also spoken to Messham today, and he revealed that he was due to speak to police officers soon about his claims and would name the Tory to them.

He also told the paper that after the abuse, the individual threatened Messham with his life if he discussed it with anyone.

"After I was assaulted, this politician made it quite clear what would happen to me if I dared tell anyone. He warned me that if I mentioned anything about the abuse, he would have me killed.

"This man would never say he would do it personally, but he was someone with immense power and I took his threat very, very seriously."

'The highest of places'

Senior Labour MP Tom Watson, who last week raised the possibility of a "paedophile ring" has also promised to speak out about the child abuse allegations in "the highest of places".

Writing in his blog on Saturday, Watson explains he has been contacted by many people describing appalling allegations of child abuse, some perpetrated by those in positions in power.

He wrote: "They have named powerful people -- some of them household names -- who abused children with impunity.

Citing the revelations over Jimmy Savile scandal Watson promises he will pursue the matter.

"What I am going to do personally is to speak out on this extreme case of organised abuse in the highest places. At the core of all child abuse is the abuse of power. The fundamental power of the adult over the child.

Wherever this occurs it is an abomination. But these extreme cases are abuse of power by some of the most powerful people."

[Magda Hassan]

Now we learn for certain that the official establishment inquiry into the abuse of chlidren in Welsh children's homes, such as Bryn Estyn, in the 1980s, was a farce, with testimony against powerful indviduals excluded, with children threatened and told not to name names.

Some of the investigating police were also told to lose the evidence, or else.... I'll see if I can locate that article for that statement.