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.
Quote:Dozens injured in Morocco at protest over Spanish paedophile's release
Police baton-charge protesters after royal pardon and release of Daniel Galván Viña who served two years of 30-year term
Stephen Burgen theguardian.com, Sunday 4 August 2013 15.06 BST
police clash demonstrators Rabat Morocco
Police clash with demonstrators outside the parliament in Rabat after the release of convicted Spanish paedophile Daniel Galván Viña. Photograph: Mustapha Houbais/AP
Dozens of people were injured at the weekend when police in Morocco baton-charged demonstrators protesting at the royal pardon granted to a Spanish paedophile. Daniel Galván Viña was released after serving barely two years of the 30-year sentence he received for sexually abusing 11 children aged from three to 14.
The royal palace said in a statement on Sunday that King Mohammed VI would never have signed the pardon had he been aware of the seriousness of Galván's crimes. Galván, 64, was the last name on a list of 48 Spanish prisoners submitted by Spain's King Juan Carlos for pardon. Most of the others had been jailed for drug trafficking. The Spanish royal palace publicly expressed the crown's "deep gratitude" when the prisoners were pardoned on 30 July.
According to the Moroccan digital newspaper Lakome, Galván was released at the express request of the CNI, Spain's national intelligence agency. The organisation allegedly extracted him from Iraq where he worked as a spy within the military under the regime of Saddam Hussein. 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.
According to Galván's lawyer, the pardon came as a complete surprise to his client but he lost no time in contacting the Spanish consulate in Morocco to expedite his departure. Lakome says his release may form part of a spy exchange between Madrid and Rabat.
The Moroccan justice ministry said in a statement that such pardons "are granted for interests of state within the framework of friendly diplomatic relations between countries".
Galván's trial and conviction in September 2011 attracted widespread media attention in Morocco. As well as the 30-year sentence, he was ordered to pay €4,800 (£4,170) to the families of eight of his victims.
While many of the 48 prisoners granted pardon have yet to be freed pending payment of fines, Galván was granted safe conduct to Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta without paying the families. The Spanish group Lawyers Without Frontiers is demanding that he complete his jail sentence is Spain.
Further demonstrations are expected this week.
Abdelali Hamieddine, a senior member of the ruling Islamist Justice and Development party, said "Moroccans have the right to demonstrate when they feel humiliated and the authorities don't have the right to react so violently."
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
An 83-year-old man, understood to veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, is re-arrested on further allegations of sexual offences in connection with Operation Yewtree.
Rolf Harris arrested in connection with Operation Yewtree (Image: Reuters)
He was arrested in March by Scotland Yard detectives from Operation Yewtree, the national investigation sparked by abuse claims made against disgraced television presenter Jimmy Savile.
He returned on bail on Monday and was re-arrested on suspicion of sexual offences in connection with further allegations made to the police.
Mr Harris had previously been interviewed under caution on 29 November last year, five days after a search warrant was executed at his home. He has been re-bailed to a date later in August.
Mr Harris was only publicly named as a Yewtree suspect in April, when The Sun newspaper became the first media outlet to identify him in connection with the investigation.
The inquiry has been run in three strands - claims involving Savile, those involving Savile and others, and those involving others.
Mr Harris is being dealt with under the "others" strand, meaning the allegations have no link to shamed DJ Savile.
Family favourite
The Australian, who painted a portrait of the Queen in 2005 and performed at her Diamond Jubilee concert last year, has been a family favourite for decades.
He had his first musical hit, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport, in 1960, and continued to enjoy success in the industry, gaining cult status in recent years and performing at Glastonbury festival several times.
He also proved popular as a television presenter, getting his first big break in 1967 when he began hosting his own BBC1 programme, The Rolf Harris Show, before moving on to children's television in the 1980s and then to Animal Hospital, which he hosted from 1994 to 2004.
Mr Harris, who has lived in Bray for more than 50 years, was awarded an MBE in 1968, an OBE in 1977 and a CBE in 2006; and was made Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours list last year.
He made a rare public appearance at the Wickham Festival in Hampshire over the weekend.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
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/mor...d%E2%80%9D
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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?
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
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."
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/...CMP=twt_gu
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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
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/ro...fo/4923596
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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.'
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
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
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.'
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
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.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
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