BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT SHAME
The recent reports from the UK that children may
have been murdered by paedophiles — including British MPs known to have visited
the notorious Elm Guest House in London — has followed a relentless pattern of
allegations that the British Establishment has been sitting on one of the
biggest scandals in modern times.
On Wednesday 26 November, the first conviction
under the Operation Pallial investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at
the Bryn Alyn Community in Wrexham saw John Allen, the former head of the
children’s homes, jailed for 26 offences committed over several decades against
children placed in his care.
Wrexham in North Wales is the area where local MP
and paedophile Peter Morrison, a former top aide to UK Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, preyed on vulnerable children. It seems that the testimony of
historic victims of child sexual abuse, the various campaigns to obtain
evidence and other efforts to force the government to act, have begun to take
effect.
Week after week it seems that more news emerges to
confirm the suspicion that the Establishment is working hard to disguise the
actions of MI5, Special Branch, Scotland Yard and Parliament in covering up
some of the most heinous crimes against vulnerable children.
The vast majority of the public now believe MPs and
ministers covered up child sex abuse by other politicians, according to a
recent Sunday Mirror opinion poll.
The ComRes survey found that an overwhelming 77 per
cent of those quizzed think politicians “probably” stopped details of scandals
involving their colleagues from emerging. Only 5 per cent disagreed.
Of those polled, 73 per cent felt it was right that
allegations of child sex abuse from the 1960s and 1970s should be probed by
police. But only 30 per cent said they had faith the inquiries announced by the
government will uncover the truth.
There are now so many separate police operations
launched in various parts of Britain that there is a danger that testimony,
forensic evidence and audit trails of paperwork may be lost.
The vast numbers of allegations are a sign that
adults abused as children have now been empowered to come forward. But it also
provides an opportunity for the cover-ups to continue because police cannot
cope with the volume of work and mistakes can happen either by default or
deliberately.
The father of a murdered boy has claimed that his son
may have died at the hands of a Westminster paedophile ring and said Scotland
Yard helped cover up the crime. Vishambar Mehrotra, a retired magistrate
whose eight-year-old son Vishal was killed in 1981, said he was contacted by a
male prostitute at the time who said the boy may have been abducted and
murdered by “highly placed” paedophiles linked to the Elm Guest House in
south-west London.
Paedophile Liberal MP Cyril Smith is known to have
visited the guest house where vulnerable children had been taken from
children’s homes in nearby Richmond. Two years ago a former Special Branch
police officer, Tony Robinson, said a historic dossier “packed” with
information about Cyril Smith’s sex crimes was actually in the hands of MI5 —
despite officially having been “lost” decades earlier in the Home Office while
led by Leon Brittan.
Another boy may also have been murdered by the same
paedophile ring in 1979.
Detective Chief Inspector Diane Tudway of the
Metropolitan Police told Kevin Allen last Friday that his brother Martin, who
disappeared aged 15 in King’s Cross, may have been a victim of the same group
of paedophiles including politicians and other high-powered figures, the
Independent has reported.
The case was closed in the early 1980s, reopened in
2009 and then closed again. The Sunday People and the Exaro online
investigations website also reported that a man called Nick had told them he
saw a Conservative MP strangle a 12-year-old boy to death.
Scotland Yard’s Operation Midland, launched last
month and the latest in a number of police investigations into high-level child
abuse, has said it is looking into possible homicide connected to its other
inquiries.
The British security services are facing more
questions over the cover-up of a Westminster paedophile ring as it emerged that
files relating to official requests for media blackouts in the early 1980s were
destroyed.
Two newspaper executives recently told the Observer
that their publications were issued with D-notices — warnings not to publish
intelligence that might damage national security — when they sought to report
on allegations of a powerful group of men engaging in child sex abuse in
1984.
One executive said he had been accosted in his
office by 15 uniformed and two non-uniformed police over a dossier on
Westminster paedophiles passed to him by the former Labour Cabinet minister
Barbara Castle.
The other executive said that his newspaper had
received a D-notice when a reporter sought to write about a police
investigation into Elm Guest House. Now it has emerged that these claims are
impossible to verify or discount because the D-notice archives for that period
“are not complete.”
Two years ago it was revealed that at the inquest
into the death of Carole Kasir, who ran the Elm Guest House and died in 1990,
evidence was submitted at the coroner’s court that MPs including members of the
right-wing Monday Club, judges, a bishop, a local authority children’s services
director and a prominent businessman all used the Elm Guest House to rape
children who had been procured from Grafton Close children’s home in
Richmond.
A former Scotland Yard commander has admitted he
knew of an alleged paedophile ring at Westminster. John O’Connor, once head of
the Flying Squad, confirmed there were rumours of a sex scandal and he had been
on standby for a major investigation.
His allegations suggest that Thatcher covered up
child abuse allegations against a senior minister in the 1980s. O’Connor said:
“I remember when this was first flying about. I think it was in the early 1980s
but then it just seemed to die a natural death.”
The Sunday People reported in July that Thatcher
had told an up and coming minister: “You have to clean up your sexual
act.”
This followed allegations that the politician had
abused young boys. However the same leading Tory was seen by police trying to
procure young boys at Victoria railway station four years later.
In another recent development, the focus of
attention has switched to Dolphin Square in Pimlico, a complex of flats used
almost exclusively by MPs due to its proximity to Westminster.
One of the VIPs who sexually abused boys at Dolphin
Square has been identified as Sir Peter Hayman, a diplomat and former MI6
deputy director who was also a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
The disclosure of his identity has been provided to
Scotland Yard for its new investigation into historical allegations that MPs
and other prominent people carried out child sex abuse at Dolphin Square.
Sir Michael Havers was the attorney general under
the Thatcher government when many of the allegations were made. In the early
1980s, Havers was accused by campaigning MP Geoffrey Dickens of a cover-up when
he refused to prosecute Hayman.
So there are a number of separate pieces of testimony
being provided to the police and senior Scotland Yard commanders going back 30
years, as well as statements by former senior detectives, that information was
obtained but not acted upon.
Newspapers were silenced by secrecy laws usually
reserved for times of war to prevent espionage. Now these cover-ups by the
security services are being reported in the national media.
Files have gone missing or been seized by MI5 and
so it seems as if the full force of the state is engaged in preventing the
truth coming out into the open.
Unless these investigations are allowed access to
evidence and the allegations against senior politicians are brought to court,
justice for childhood victims of paedophile abuse by MPs will be denied.
Steven Walker is a
Unicef Children’s Champion
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