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

[David Guyatt]

The following report is translated by the wonderful GoogleTranslate from Dutch in the newspaper De Telegraaf:

Mon 24 Mar 2014, 15:18|
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'Turkey blackmailed justitietop with Demmink'

UTRECHT -In exchange for a Dutch condemnation of the Kurd Baybasin with false evidence, Turkey maintains information about the abuse of minors by former top official Joris Demmink for themselves. Thus Turkey blackmailed the Dutch justitietop. Of this former policeman Klaas Langedoen convinced he declared Monday as a witness before the court in Utrecht.

Photo: Serge Ligtenberg

Utrecht is heard at the request of the foundation Rusty Nail. A series of witnesses Which examines the assumption that boys abuse by the then chief executive of justice Demmink active in the cover-up has stopped.
Former chief of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Langedoen bases his conclusion on his own research in Turkey. He did research at the request of the lawyer for two Turkish victims who say they were abused by Demmink. Doing long said the two boys. They told how they were abused by Demmink and pointed him in a book of Langendoen.
Other hints for his conclusion was Langedoen a Turkish journalist. Which showed a video interview with a driver who had to recruit boys for Demmink. He also issued a report showing the blackmail deal between Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Çiller former and the then Minister of Justice Winnie Sorgdrager would turn out.
According Langedoen former brothel guys can confirm how "the system" worked out the Rolodex study, in which high-ranking pedophiles guys could exploit.
Demminks lawyers took that perfectly correct. Langendoens the reliability of researchHe is paid by the law firm of Baybasin, which collects ammo for a review of his life sentence. It is also the law firm of the Turkish victims.
Doing long agreed that he had not applied. Guidelines for photo identifications But detectives who do, are conspicuous by their absence in studies of the coverup.

This next article is from Waar in Holland

Noose around neck Joris Demmink pulls tighter, Baybasin affair

December 21, 2013 Posted in Accountancy , News Programs , AIVD , Embassies , Corruption , European politics , international politics ,Internet , Journalism , Justice , Child Abuse , Newspapers , National politics , media , Perjury , Ministries , Narcotics , Prosecution ,Government , Pedophilia , Politics , Judiciary , cheat , Aliens by: Pierre Waayer


The case Baybasin: a Dutch Dreyfus Affair
France, late 19th century. The country is deeply divided by a fierce public debate about a possible miscarriage of justice with antisemitic draw. A Jewish army officer, Captain Dreyfus, in 1894 accused of providing military intelligence to archenemy of Germany. If any evidence emerges a letter that would be written. By Dreyfus

A handwriting expert refuses to confirm that the letter was written by Dreyfus. Other experts consulted later explaining it. The opinion of the first expert is pushed aside. Dreyfus is convicted and exiled to Devil's Island off the coast of French Guiana. About the Dreyfus Affair was written much. There is also a long chapter devoted to the classic " On straddling two centuries "by Jan Romein. It is, in flowery fifties Dutch, especially the socio-political context of this case, sharp highlights (from page 115).
The case Baybasin.
Over a hundred years later in the Netherlands plays a similar case: the trial of the Kurd Hüseyin Baybasin.On the site of the Foundation, we Bakker Schut posts since 2011 on the disputed life sentence of Baybasin and have the charges against the former Secretary General of Justice Demmink, because of corruption of minors. The case Demmink gets the most attention lately. The case Baybasin begins to run in the background, but thus is at least as interesting and moreover still very topical. It is an extremely complicated matter, with a comprehensive dossier. Baybasin got life imprisonment include ordering murder. He has always vehemently denied. There are persistent doubts about the evidence. After his final conviction in 2002, many new facts have emerged. So there are statements by Turkish police and judicial employees Turkey Netherlands has put under pressure in this case and that the wiretaps with evidence largely from Turkey are delivered. Furthermore, it has become clear that those who Baybasin would have given the kill order in Turkey previously never been convicted. One was acquitted and the other was never even prosecuted. In other words, Baybasin had received a life sentence for ordering the murder of someone who was acquitted. Himself for murder The case Baybasin now lies with the Supreme Court with a request for review. Since April 2011 Since January 2013 there are again witnesses heard.
On www.bs-foundation.nl the facts and the documents available and the opinion thereon of the Bakker Schut Foundation. Striking is the reluctance of the judiciary to seriously pay attention to (new) exculpatory evidence, at least until now.
The charges and trial
Hüseyin Baybasin worked in the eighties for the then Turkish government and was very close witness to the involvement of senior Turkish government officials in heroin smuggling. He later became active in politics as a Kurd, was persecuted and tortured. He fled Turkey and managed to get where he applied for political asylum. Finally to Netherlands When Turkey in 1995, asked for his extradition, which was rightly prevented by the Dutch courts. Baybasin had indeed feared for his life in Turkey. He was co-founder of the Kurdish parliament in exile and worked with PKK leader Öcalan, but was politically much more moderate. He still is.He does not want separation from Turkey, but only greater autonomy for the Kurds, in the state of Turkey.
In close cooperation with the Turkish judiciary Baybasin was arrested on suspicion of heroin trafficking in the Netherlands in 1998 and give the phone ordering assassinations abroad, one in a tea garden in Istanbul (was there in 1997, the Marxist Kurd OGE murdered) and one in Kentucky (USA). This second murder has also never happened. Relevant evidence consisted almost exclusively of wiretaps. Baybasin has from the beginning stated that the calls were not made by him and that this must be manipulated conversations, partly supplied to the Netherlands from Turkey. Irregularities time were already highlighted in the pictures, but the Dutch Forensic Institute, that the tapes had assessed by ear only felt that they were authentic, conversations in previous months were conducted from the Netherlands and were recorded in the Netherlands . Baybasin was sentenced to twenty years in prison in 2001.
On appeal Baybasins new lawyers (Herman Pieter Bakker Schut and Adele van der Plas) emphasized potential influence and blackmail of the Dutch justice by Turkey. The taps were, they obviously manipulated and partly from Turkey. That alone was clear from the content of the calls. An extremely critical technical countercheck the recordings by three independent experts was inserted. But their report, nothing was done, it was taken for granted. The experts were not heard. For an explanation, see the still shocking TV broadcast Zemlya in 2003, part 2 and 3. The signal abnormalities are clearly there, even for non-experts. The response from the responsible prosecutor Stein of the National Prosecutor's laconic: an expert's report, we find enough.
In five months, 6,000 phone calls were tapped, an incredibly high number of: an estimated daily average of 40 calls, seven days a week. The tapverslagen which two of the six allegations were based were not found on the original data carriers ( revision request , paragraph 108, page 83, par. 119 and 120, page 91). There were numerous translation errors made by the Turkish interpreter and translation errors by the Dutch investigators. An expert witness called specialist in Kurdish doubted the word tea garden tea garden in a telephone interview about the murder in Istanbul. According to him, the word was mistranslated and conscious conversation was not about a tea garden, but a bundle of clothes that refugees carry with them. In a telephone conversation on the Kentucky Case phrase "make him call" was described by the Dutch investigators as "make him cold." "Make him cold", as it says in the Dutch police report.
The appeal
In 2002, the Court of Den Bosch even increased the sentence to life imprisonment, with no prejudice was delivered. Any additional evidence The evidence was almost exclusively based on the wiretaps and the first expert report. Baybasin was leader of an unprecedented criminal organization, and he had given orders to murder. This was deemed conclusively proven.
But who takes the trouble to study the documents seriously quickly falls from one surprise to another. It is in the first place a sloppy judgment. That was at least the commission Buruma, Access Closed Criminal Cases Review Commission (TCEAS), who in 2011 wrote a report on the reliability of the straps. Law professor Y. Buruma was chairman and spokesman of the committee. Shortly after publication of the report, he himself became a member of the Supreme Court. The Buruma committee asks cynically wonder why one in 2002 settled for uncontrolled evidence in the case of the tea garden murder: "The TCEAS has considered the question of how can be explained that the Dutch police and the courts apparently have not obtained more evidence from Turkey. "And:" ... it seems an obvious interest in to offer. firmly as possible evidence to the court a murder case in which the involvement of the accused is not directly The TCEAS has also surprised that relatively simple investigations have been neglected. "( TCEAS report , p.19).
Indeed, what evidence there was actually the premise that Baybasin was a drug trafficker? That was not there. There were only accusations from Turkey, which were verified insufficient. And how sure it was in 2002 that Turkey arrested "perpetrators" murder really had committed? One of them was never considered a suspect, the other (Yavuztürk) was not tried in 2004. And then acquitted. The Dutch prosecutor had requested several documents in Turkey about the murder, but did not take the minutes of the interrogation of Yavaztürk in 1998 in the file. It is a statement that is highly exculpatory for Baybasin. But that was not submitted to the Court. See the review request , paragraph 97, p. 73 and 74).
Lifelong
And then the punishment. Which is at least remarkable, even for those who still may have the complete innocence of Baybasin doubts. Lifelong is generally given for committing heinous murders, with hard evidence. In comparison, Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo van Gogh, was sentenced to life. Lucia de Berk was sentenced to life for the murder of several hospital patients, but was acquitted in revision. Ernest L. got into the still controversial Deventer murder case (DNA traces and mobile telephone traffic as proof) for twelve years. And Holleeder was in 2007, nine years of threats, because commission could be incomplete. Proven to murder
Lifetime in the Netherlands means real life. There is not a part as long as all other penalties and grace is never actually granted. The offender, the situation is completely hopeless. According to the European Court in Strasbourg, this is contrary to the prohibition of torture under the European Convention on Human Rights.This year it was repeated position . Baybasin would have been if he had not been given a life free for three years now but the second highest penalty, then 20 years old. In 2012 (he had then been detained for 14 years) did Baybasin pending revision by the Supreme Court still a pardon, especially based on the fact that it was not known to the judges during his sentencing that the two alleged perpetrators of the OGE murder in Turkey were acquitted, or not prosecuted. The request for clemency was rejected. According to the opinion of the Court, Den Bosch Baybasin was still such a great danger to society that he was never to return. InMoreover, the case was "characterized by a high degree of sensitivity" by the accusations Baybasin made ​​to the "Turkish and Dutch State and officials of both states." A notable addition. Can a convicted to life who considers himself innocent sometimes not everything in our power to prove his innocence? Or is Baybasin especially dangerous because he accuses Dutch judges and judicial officials?
Prison Regime
A surprising high penalties. At least as strange is how Baybasin was treated during his detention. For unexplained reasons, he has never been placed in incommunicado detention during the preliminary investigation. He spent nearly six years partly in isolation in the EBI in Vught. Many would not survive mentally and physically. He calls his stay in the EBI worse than the torture he underwent in Turkey. His lawyers had to litigate to come. Behind the motives of these additional restraint It would go to declarations of attempted escape. That proved nowhere to rest, there was no reason for the isolation. After he was transferred to a regular prison in late 2003, this special treatment went on. So he was in 2005 and in 2007 again placed in isolation. Again, totally unfounded. Baybasin won a total of three lawsuits over wrongful insulation. Advocate Judith Serrarens began in 2013, an Article 12 procedure to the prison director S. Langelaar to prosecute. Serrarens believes that Secretary General Demmink ordered the insulation. She says that having Demmink the detention file Baybasin has requested and had in his possession. Half a year of hard evidence June 2013 the case was first treated in The Hague . The process is not yet completed.
Was in 2012, just before the hearing of the application for review with the Supreme Court, searched sudden Baybasins cell, his painter's tools were taken from him and all the legal documents were taken away from him. He was later returned, except the documents relating to the Demmink case. Also, this is never explained. There in 2011 also failed to respond to troubling medical symptoms. Again, it was the intervention of his lawyer.
Baybasin is obviously additional punished because he insist on his innocence and his reading of the story: he was tricked by Turkey and the Netherlands had to make up for the trolley of the Turks
Facts
It is striking that all matters which hitherto have surfaced exculpatory for Baybasin (see fact sheet ). There is no new incriminating fact came to light about Baybasins involvement in drug trafficking or statements in the criminal world. A number of allegations in the original criminal case have now been disproved or made implausible.
What then of evidence about? Nothing except the dubious wiretaps . There is no further evidence of participation in a criminal organization. The argument in the tea garden case is undermined by the impunity of the two alleged perpetrators. The Dutch Justice based its evidence at that time entirely on the assumption that these two men would have committed the murder. And the award for life could only be given on the basis of the order to murder.
In addition to the technical errors in the taps, there are many other absurdities. An Israeli general, as a witness in 2007 by the State Council, recognizes his own voice on the tapes, but emphatically states that the content of the conversation, and nothing beats that must be. Therefore interfered in the conversation He spoke often with Baybasin indeed, but that was only on political issues. A Turkish-Dutch police interpreter translated the tapped phone calls from Turkish and Kurdish. This interpretation appears to have had with the Turkish Justice and Turkish security forces. Close ties During a witness in January 2013, he tells for the first time how he collaborated with the Turkish government and Turkey was how to get it situated. rid of BaybasinBaybasin was on a death list of eleven influential Kurds, of which there are now only two are alive.
Public discussion, the fearful reaction of the established order
Back to the Dreyfus Affair. If there is any evidence of dubious handwritten letter, but Dreyfus is still condemned and banished.
The writer Emile Zola gets involved and wrote in 1898 on the front page of the literary newspaper L'Aurorefamous letter J'accuse , addressed to the French president, in which he involved all politicians, judges and senior army officers by name accuses complicity in a cover-up around a grave miscarriage of justice. Zola is subsequently indicted and convicted. He needs to move to England to avoid arrest. There is a massive international protest started, with demonstrations including London, Washington and Budapest. Lose the incumbent government parties in the 1898 elections. Mainly under pressure from abroad, the case in 1899 and revised the sentence changed to 10 years. Shortly after being pardoned and he is released. But he will not be final acquitted in 1906.
The real spy and author of the letter, Major Ferdinand Esterhazy was in 1897 by a whistleblower accused, but was acquitted. The courageous whistleblower was the head of military intelligence, George Picquart .Picquart was also initially blamed himself and fired, but completely rehabilitated after Dreyfus Process.Eventually he became minister of war.
Emile Zola dies in 1902 in his sleep by carbon monoxide poisoning. Intent, so says the suspect, but it can not be substantiated. Years later declares a Parisian chimney with far-right anti-Semitic sympathies, that one night he had with others closed. chimney Zola's apartment with grime and grit
Jan Romein analyzes the Dreyfus Affair in great detail and concludes that the cause of all this judicial failure should be fearful when responding to the established order sought: the importance and reputation of the army and the judiciary were above all. Therefore, the miscarriage of justice had to be covered up by all means. Only when a brave known intellectual stepped in, there was slow movement in the case, under the pressure of international public opinion.
The parallels with the Baybasinproces are clear. Then there was a graphological "evidence" and ignored the opinion of a handwriting expert, now there are almost garish manipulated wiretaps, which according to several witnesses provided by Turkey, which still had a bone to pick with Baybasin. A second opinion is pushed aside. There are telephone signals that are not right. There is confusion about the words used. The Turkish-Dutch police interpreter worked with Turkey. Access committee of the Committee on Evaluation of Closed Cases (TCEAS) find technical irregularities, but dares not recommended to review the matter . The remarkably high penalty appeal is incomprehensible. The reason for the many years of extremely traumatizing incommunicado detention in the EBI is unclear. And the endless slow judicial process, particularly in recent years with the TCEAS and the revision request is unusual. It all points to the same "anxious to respond to the established order" as in the Dreyfus Affair. Credibility and authority of the Dutch legal system are under discussion.
In the Dreyfus Affair was a leading role for the press. The case was very extensive for years closely followed by the press and led to a broad and intense national and international debate. In that area, there is so far no parallel with the Baybasin case. Only the Catholic Newspaper publishes fearless about Baybasin and Demmink. Other media (major newspapers, radio and TV) silence. Do not dare they Too few newsworthy? If Baybasin indeed fallen into the trap under pressure from Turkey, the Netherlands and therefore harmless to life is condemned, that might be the biggest Dutch miscarriage of justice ever be. A Dutch Dreyfus Affair.
* Kees van der Plas is a former GP and member of the Bakker Schut Foundation.
Source: bs-foundation.nl. December 20, 2013

Both stories were lifted from Aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk

[David Guyatt]

Customs officer seized child sex tape that shows a British Conservative cabinet minister watching it, circa 1982. The sex tape was later turned over to MI5 (no need to wonder why, I suppose).

The customs officer claims to have been - and is being - gagged by his bosses under the Official Secrets Act about speaking about this, even till the day he dies.

The full story HERE.

[Paul Rigby]

Customs officer seized child sex tape that shows a British Conservative cabinet minister watching it, circa 1982. The sex tape was later turned over to MI5 (no need to wonder why, I suppose).

The customs officer claims to have been - and is being - gagged by his bosses under the Official Secrets Act about speaking about this, even till the day he dies.

The full story HERE.

Lib Dems disown 'repugnant' Cyril Smith but stand accused of cover-up
New book claims that senior party members conspired to protect late MP from prosecution for child sex offences

Toby Helm, political editor
The Observer, Saturday 12 April 2014 23.59 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014...x-offences

The Liberal Democrats have disowned their former icon, Sir Cyril Smith, amid evidence of appalling and repeated sexual abuse of children, as a new controversy raged over allegations that police, spies and politicians connived in an establishment cover-up of his activities.

The party denounced Smith as "repugnant" after a book by the most recent incumbent as MP in Smith's Rochdale seat, Labour's Simon Danczuk, detailed repeated crimes by the late Liberal politician and drew similarities with serial sex offender Jimmy Savile.

In a statement the party said: "Cyril Smith's acts were vile and repugnant and we have nothing but sympathy for those whose lives he ruined. His actions were not known to, or condoned by the Liberal Party or the Liberal Democrats." Party sources said there were no plans to launch further investigations.

On Saturday Danczuk contested the party's assertion that it had been entirely ignorant. He told the Observer: "It is a nonsense for the Liberals to claim they knew nothing. Senior Liberal MPs like [former member] Michael Meadowcroft have already admitted they knew of the rumours and didn't do much to investigate them.

"I expect more evidence of what the Liberals knew about Cyril will emerge soon, but the most important thing is to get rid of this culture of denial and cover-up in politics. Child abuse cannot and will not be brushed under the carpet. We need a zero tolerance of this kind of activity."

The latest claims about Smith, who died aged 82 in 2010, came as a row over the alleged inappropriate behaviour towards women of Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard threatened to erupt again, with his supporters preparing to lodge new arguments that he be cleared and allowed back into the party.

Danczuk's book, Smile for the Camera: the Double Life of Cyril Smith, co-written with his parliamentary aide Matthew Baker, says police forces repeatedly investigated sex abuse allegations against the 28-stone former MP but that attempts to prosecute him were consistently blocked.

It adds that officers were told they would be sacked and were gagged by the Official Secrets Act. The cover-up came from the "very top of the establishment", Danczuk says. One possible motivation for the alleged cover-up is that Smith was considered to be such an electoral asset to the Liberals that senior figures in the party were keen to protect him.

"At first, I respected him for his homespun politics, his spit-and-sawdust grit and his passion," said Danczuk. "But in time, the scales fell from my eyes and I was confronted with absolute horror. Once you looked beyond the jolly clown playing for the camera, there was a sickening, dark heart.

"I saw it in police files that had been hidden for years and I heard it in the desperate voices of grown men Cyril had abused as boys. As soon as the first victim approached me, there was no turning back. Every email, every phone call, every meeting uncovered more about his double life.

"And the more I found out, the more I came to realise that this wasn't just about abuse; it was about power, and a cover-up that reached from Rochdale all the way to the very top of the establishment.

"Smith posed as a tireless worker for children at one point he was governor of 29 local schools and set up a youth charity, Rochdale Childer using it all as a cover to prowl from classroom to classroom and youth club to youth club."

On Saturday John Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, said he suspected the establishment was still inclined to protect people in high places, even in this kind of case. "Awful abuses have happened in the past and our concern and sympathy has to be with those who have survived such abuse.

"The historic cover-up of such abuse should not be tolerated, but I am concerned that our system is still prone to such cover-ups."

John Pugh, the Lib Dem MP for Southport, agreed: "I am as shocked as the next person by these revelations. I can confirm that they were not widely known until recently."

Last week the former deputy speaker of the House of Commons, Nigel Evans, was cleared of allegations of rape and sexual assault of young men. Now, in another twist that threatens further turmoil among Lib Dems, the Observer understands that friends of Lord Rennard, the former chief executive who has been suspended by the party following accusations of inappropriate behaviour towards female party members, intend to use the Evans case in their campaign to clear Rennard. They argue that whereas Evans admitted in court to making drunken advances to young men, and has now been welcomed back by the Tories, nothing has been proved against the Lib Dem peer, yet he still faces possible expulsion if he fails to apologise.

"You can be sure that this point will be made in the mediation process now underway," said one source close to Rennard. "It is a clear case of double standards."

Smith was protected by MI5 to enable the Liberals to challenge Labour's dominance of politics in the north-west of England. It was a dominance to be lamented, for sure, but broken by these means?

[Anthony Thorne]

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[David Guyatt]

From The Needle and Desiring Progress

Peter Righton's Diaries: Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Michael Davidson
Posted: May 11, 2014 | Author: Ian Pace | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: aldeburgh, Benjamin Britten, donald mitchell, eileen fairweather, liz davies, lord henniker, michael davidson, paedophile information exchange, peter pears,peter righton, suffolk, tom watson |10 CommentsI am publishing on here some information communicated to me by Tom Watson MP's source on Peter Righton and networks of child abusers, which led to the infamous question from Watson to the Prime Minister on October 24th 2012 in which Watson identified a high-level paedophile ring linked to the aide of a former Prime Minister and thus to 10 Downing Street. Watson's source is a former child protection officer who currently does not wish to be identified by name, but was involved in the investigations into leading paedophile and key Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) member Righton (on whom, see this documentary, this article in the Mirror, this Guardian article by Nick Davies, this article by Liz Davies, this article by Christian Wolmar, and the series of articles to be found on the Spotlight and Needle blogs). .
As detailed by Watson himself, after Righton's 1992 conviction on child pornography, he moved to live in a cottage on the estate of the eighth Lord Henniker, in Thorna Magma, North Suffolk, and was allowed to use the estate for special holidays for vulnerable children from Islington (at the very time when there was an epidemic of child abuse in Islington care homes see here and here for vital material from the journalist Eileen Fairweather and former social worker Liz Davies (now Reader at London Metropolitan University) who brought the scandal to public attention). The Chief Constable of Suffolk visited Henniker personally to warn him that Righton was a career paedophile, but he ignored this advice, and Righton was able to continue hosting children on the estate until his death in 2008. Just this week one man has spoken out about his experiences being trafficked around the country to be abused by strangers whilst in the Suffolk care system, and named Righton as part of the operation.
The important information is the following: in Righton's diaries, he frequently referred to Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Michael Davidson as fellow boy-lovers', and also spoke of how important to him (Righton) were their get-togethers at Snape Maltings. A Peter Righton is also thanked in the preface to Donald Mitchell's book Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936: The T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures delivered in the University of Kent at Canterbury in November 1979 (London: Faber, 1981), and as a translator of some text in Mitchell's facsimile edition of Mahler's Seventh Symphony (Amsterdam: Rosbeek Publishers, 1995), and of some of Donald Mitchell and Andrew Nicholson (eds), The Mahler Companion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Mitchell was very close to Britten, edited the first major study of his work, Benjamin Britten : a commentary on his works from a group of specialists (London: Rockliff, 1952), and later became Britten's principal publisher at Faber Music, becoming a senior trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation after Britten's death in 1976. He has also been general editor of the major collections of Britten's letters and diaries published by Faber & Faber.
As I mentioned in my earlier article on Clifford Hindley, various biographers, including the late Humphrey Carpenter in his Benjamin Britten: A Biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1992), John Bridcut in Britten's Children (London: Faber & Faber, 2006), and Paul Kildea in Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century (London: Allen Lane, 2013) have investigated at some length whether there was anything untoward in Britten's relationships with the numerous boys with whom he worked for performances of his operas, works of children's choirs, and so on. Only a small amount of evidence has been uncovered of any exploitation through enactment of these desires, including the testimony of Harry Morris, who did accuse Britten of abuse (see Bridcut, Britten's Children, pp. 46-53), and also various accounts chronicled by Bridcut of naked swimming and sharing of beds with boys aged as young as 11.
There is no question about the proclivities or activities of journalist Michael Davidson (1897-1976). His1962 autobiography The World, The Flesh and Myself (London: Arthur Barker, 1962) begins with the line This is the life story of a lover of boys', whilst his later memoir Some Boys (London: David Bruce & Watson, 1972) is nothing less than a stomach-churning account of international child sex tourism and assault, presented quite shamelessly. Below I reproduce scanned copies of the chapter of the book dealing with London. Davidson's brother-in-law Christopher Southward taught violin at Gresham School, in the music department run by Walter Greatorex, who taught Britten at the school; Greatorex introduced the 26-year old Davidson to the then 16-year old W.H. Auden (Neil Powell, Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music (London: Hutchinson, 2013), pp. 29-31).
There is other information I am not in a position to print here for legal reasons; furthermore the information from Righton's diaries of course constitutes claims rather than yet-proven allegations. The possibility that Britten and Pears were part of Righton's circle (and thus perhaps also to other members of PIE) does not in itself prove anything, but undoubtedly this needs to be investigated, together with the meetings in Snape Maltings. But in order to help get to the bottom of the networks of abusers who have corrupted British society and childhood for decades, I would implore anyone with further information on the connections between and activities of Righton, Britten, Pears and Davidson to come forward if they feel ready to do so (I am happy to let anyone know by private e-mail ian@ianpace.com police or other contacts to whom they could speak).
I will add further information at a later date.

From The Needle.

[David Guyatt]

What's this then?

The police not properly investigating themselves, er, I mean, paedophiles who are VIP's and others of Ministerial status?

We're going to have to change the current lexicon of copper-speak:

"You are not fooking nicked, son!" will have to become: "You are not fooking nicked, milord!" (or Mr. Home Secretary or Mr. Prime Minister or Mr. Chief Inspector, or Mr. High Court Judge - juggle titles as required case by case).

Cross Party Support For National Inquiry.

Former children's minister Tim Loughton and Conservative backbencher Zac Goldsmith are calling for a national inquiry into historical cases of child sex abuse.
Goldsmith has co-ordinated a high-powered, cross-party group of MPs to sign a joint letter to Theresa May, home secretary, urging her to set up an independent panel to investigate repeated failures by police and other authorities in a wide variety of cases.
The seven MPs in the group also want the inquiry to investigate why crucial files, surveillance videos and other material has gone missing in relation to allegations against prominent people.
The MPs also include Tom Watson and Simon Danczuk, from Labour; Tessa Munt and John Hemming, Liberal Democrat; and the Green Party's Caroline Lucas.
The seven want an investigation similar to the independent inquiry into Hillsborough, the football disaster of 1989. That inquiry was seen to have uncovered the truth about an episode that was mired in controversy and reflected especially badly on police.
Several inquiries have been set up in the wake of the exposure in 2012 of Jimmy Savile, the late BBC star, as a paedophile, but there has long been concern that these are too disparate.

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From Exaro via The Needle

[David Guyatt]

Cameron's cares get worse.

From Guido Fawkes:

Patrick Rock Charged

Statement from the National Crime Agency:

On the authority of the CPS, the National Crime Agency has today charged Patrick Rock, 63, a former Whitehall adviser, with making indecent images of children and possession of 59 indecent images of children. He has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 3 July.
The charges are:
- Three counts of making an indecent photograph of a child contrary to section 1(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978, between 31 July 2013 and 31 August 2013
- One count of possession of indecent photographs of children contrary to Section 160 Criminal Justice Act 1988, between 31 July 2013 and 31 August 2013
The images have been assessed by NCA CEOP officers and CPS lawyers as meeting the definition of Level C.*

No.10′s bad day gets worse…
*Possession of images of erotic posing. Lower range of sentencing, likely non-custodial.

"On the authority of the CPS", a more than curious statement, I think.

More from the Beeb:

Ex-Cameron aide Patrick Rock charged over abuse images

A former senior adviser to the prime minister has been charged by police over child abuse images.
Patrick Rock was arrested at his home in London in February after Downing Street officials contacted officers.
The 63-year-old was questioned by investigators from the newly formed National Crime Agency.
Mr Rock was deputy head of David Cameron's policy unit at the time of his arrest and they have known each other since the late 1990s.
They worked together as special advisers.
In a statement, the National Crime Agency described Mr Rock as a "Whitehall adviser". It said he had been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 3 July.
He has been charged with three counts of making indecent photographs of children and of possession of 59 indecent images of children.
The images have been assessed by Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) officers and CPS lawyers as meeting the definition of level C - the lowest category.
'Public interest'Judith Reed, a senior lawyer with the CPS organised crime division, said: "The decision to prosecute has been taken in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.
"We have determined that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.
"May I remind all concerned that Mr Rock has a right to a fair trial. It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings."
Police searched offices and computers in Downing Street as part of their investigation.
The arrest was not made public until details were published in a newspaper three weeks later.
Mr Rock failed to win a seat in Parliament on three separate occasions in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Even so there is a great deal more to come out on paedo senior pols and government ministers. If it is allowed to come out, that is?

[Magda Hassan]

Rolf's been found guilty on all charges but I doubt he will see a jail. I'm betting judge will say he has 'suffered enough' with the publicity of the trial.

[David Guyatt]

This report is interesting in that it names his Lord Leon Brittan for the first time in connection paedophile allegations.

Are the media getting bolder? I doubt it, but I bet they're straining on their leashes to write the real story behind this missing or lost file.

Now I can't, obviously, comment on the accuracy of the hand-written list that did the rounds sometime ago showing names of alleged visitors who visited the Elm Guest House paedo nest back in the 1970's/80's, but unless my eyes deceive me the name Leon Brittan MP appears at the very top of the list HERE. WE also know from Exaro News that an unnamed former government minister has recently been questioned by police about an alleged relationship with an underaged male that film footage exists showing such an association (see THIS and THIS).

The fact that David Cameron has now been forced to discuss the name of this former Home Secretary in cabinet a number of times now, indicates that real pressure is mounting to bring this affair to the public attention and allow a prosecution to occur. Perhaps. Unless David Cameron and sidekick Nick Clegg can continue to block the story - if that is what has happened? - as it would undoubtedly damage their re-election chances for the simple reason that the named former government minister has in more recent times advised them politically.

Lord Brittan challenged to disclose role in 'paedophile dossier' mystery

Simon Danczuk MP says Tory grandee should share his "knowledge and understanding" of a file which is said to have contained troubling allegations of a Westminster paedophile conspiracy, and which was allegedly delivered to the Home Office in the mid-1980s


A Labour MP who has investigated allegations of child sexual abuse against Cyril Smith, the late MP, said a file was presented to Lord Brittan - then Leon Brittan - at the Home Office but no action appeared to have been taken. Photo: REX FEATURES



By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent

8:00PM BST 01 Jul 2014

Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, who spent two years as home secretary in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet, has been challenged to reveal what happened to a dossier that it is claimed was handed to him in the 1980s detailing an alleged paedophile conspiracy in Westminster.

A Labour MP who has investigated allegations of child sexual abuse against Cyril Smith, the late MP, said a file was presented to Lord Brittan - then Leon Brittan - at the Home Office but no action appeared to have been taken.

Simon Danczuk, MP for Smith's Rochdale constituency, claimed that Parliament was the "last refuge of child sex abuse deniers".

Giving evidence to the House of Commons' home affairs select committee Mr Danczuk said the mystery dossier had been compiled by another politician, Geoffrey Dickens, the Conservative MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth until his death in 1995.

It contained allegations about the activities of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which campaigned to abolish the age of consent and was granted affliate status by the National Council for Civil Liberties when Harriet Harman, the current Labour party deputy leader, worked for the rights group in the 1970s.

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Mr Danczuk said: "Geoffrey Dickens produced a dossier in the 1980s about the PIE, about paedophiles operating a network around Westminster. It was in 1984/85.
"The home secretary was Leon Brittan. It would be helpful if he stepped forward and said where that dossier is.
"We know that it arrived at the Home Office but we don't know where it is since.
"People like Leon Brittan need to share their knowledge and understanding of what was going on at that time. The inquiry has to get to the bottom of this."
Mr Danczuk, who co-authored a book on Smith's alleged activities, including allegations that he raped children at Knowl View school in Rochdale in the 1980s, said he had been told the arrest of other abusers linked with Smith was "imminent".
He said: "I met the divisional commander for Rochdale on Friday and he tells me he expects arrests to be made imminently."
It has previously been reported that police were investigating 21 suspects in connection with the alleged paedophile ring and had interviewed seven alleged victims.

[David Guyatt]

I think the appropriate words here are, as Charlie used to say:

Colour me sceptical.

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Home Office under fire over 'lost' paedophile dossier

Leon Brittan was home secretary between 1983 and 1985
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The Home Office is facing calls to explain why a 1980s dossier about alleged paedophiles at Westminster was "destroyed" by officials.
The document was handed to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens.
Lord Brittan passed concerns in it to the relevant authorities, but the file itself was not kept.
Labour MP Simon Danczuk said it may contain evidence that would identify child sex abusers.
The Home Office said a 2013 review found the "credible" elements of the dossier which had "realistic potential" for further investigation were sent to police and prosecutors while other elements were either not retained, or were destroyed.
In an earlier version of this story, we reported that the Home Office had launched a trawl for the missing dossier, but this had in fact already been carried out - even though most people, including Lord Brittan himself, appear to have been unaware of it.
Simon Danczuk had been pressing Lord Brittan to reveal what he knew about the dossier's contents - and for the Home Office to publish it in full - when officials released a statement saying they had already carried out a review that had found it had not been retained.
'Little fanfare'A Home Office spokesman said Lord Brittan had not been contacted by the team who were conducting the review of old Home Office files, records and other papers to find out "what action was taken in respect of any material received".
But the team had found a letter from Lord Brittan to the late Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens, dated March 1984, which said some of the concerns he had raised about alleged abuse had been passed to the director of public prosecutions, who had passed them on to the police to investigate.
The review found that Lord Brittan had acted appropriately in dealing with allegations and it had "found no evidence of Mr Dickens expressing dissatisfaction about the action taken in respect of the information he had passed on".
Simon Danczuk is calling for a public inquiry into the allegations
Mr Danczuk told BBC News he also had been unaware of the review, a summary of which was published last year - but said it raised more questions than it answered.
"They must have published the review with little fanfare and people will ask why that would be the case," he told BBC News.
He called on the Home Office to reveal the outcome of any police investigations that may have resulted from the information in the dossier.
'Last refuge'He added: "Why would you destroy such an important document? What action was taken? Were any prosecutions forthcoming? We need to know this. It's raising more questions than it is answers."
Downing Street rejected calls to publish the review in full. The prime minister's official spokesman said: "The executive summaries fully reflect the work that was done."

What were the Dickens Dossiers?Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens died in 1995
Analysis by Matt Prodger, Home Affairs Correspondent
Geoffrey Dickens was Conservative MP for Huddersfield West from 1979 until 1983; he was then elected for Littleborough and Saddleworth and held the seat until his death in 1995.
According to press reports at the time, he handed two dossiers to the Home Office in 1983-84. One of them, he reportedly said, concerned a civil servant and another one related to an employee of Buckingham Palace. They also contained allegations concerning the Paedophile Information Exchange, a group that campaigned to make sex between adults and children legal.
But in an interview with the Daily Express in August 1983 he also said he would expose eight prominent figures if the home secretary failed to act. He told the paper: "I've got eight names of big people, really important names, public figures. And I am going to expose them in Parliament."
In response, Lord Brittan said in a statement that he had received a "substantial bundle of papers" from Mr Dickens, which he had asked Home Office officials to examine and "report back to me" if "action needed to be taken".
A letter from Leon Brittan to Mr Dickens, dated March 1984, says: "In general terms, the view of the director of public prosecutions is that two of the letters you forwarded could form the basis for inquiries by the police and they are now being passed to the appropriate authorities."

On Tuesday, Mr Danczuk told the Commons Home Affairs Committee that politics was "the last refuge of child sex abuse deniers" and there was a view among many politicians that alleged offenders should not be named. He called on Lord Brittan to say what he knew about Mr Dickens' allegations.
On Wednesday morning, Lord Brittan issued a statement in which he said he had received a "substantial bundle of papers" from Geoffrey Dickens and had asked officials to "report back to me" if "action needed to be taken". He said he "did not recall" being "contacted further about these matters".
Shortly afterwards, the Home Office released a statement pointing to its 2013 report, which suggested Lord Brittan had, in fact, passed concerns raised by Mr Dickens to the relevant authorities.
It said: "In response to concerns raised in Parliament and the media relating to the handling by the department of historical allegations of abuse, the permanent secretary commissioned an independent review of all relevant papers received by the department between 1979 to 1999 to identify any information received and the outcome.
"The review concluded the Home Office acted appropriately, referring information received during this period to the relevant authorities."
'Simply disappeared'Lord Brittan then issued a further statement, saying: "In the last hour I have been alerted to a Home Office independent review conducted last year into what information it received about organised child sex abuse between 1979 and 1999.
"The review found information had been dealt with properly.
"It also disclosed that material received from Mr Dickens in November 1983 and January 1984 had not been retained.
"However, a letter was sent from myself to Mr Dickens on March 20, 1984, explaining what had been done in relation to the files.
"The Home Office independent review is entirely consistent with the action I set out in my earlier statement. Whilst I could not recall what further action was taken 30 years ago, the information contained in this report shows that appropriate action and follow-up happened."
Alison Millar, a lawyer representing alleged victims of abuse relating to the Westminster claims, condemned the failure to retain the dossier.
She said: "My clients are incredulous at how this dossier can have simply disappeared. It seems inconceivable that a document of such importance can have simply disappeared.
"I would strongly support the calls for a widespread inquiry into historic sexual abuse so that my clients could have their many questions answered about who knew what, and that a very troubling veil is lifted from the corridors of power."

I wonder what happened to make Geoff Dickens change his mind and not name the 8 VIP's?