Westminster Paedophiles: The D-notice, Sweating Cyril Smith And Rochdale Is Cleansed
Westminster Peadophiles: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the story of child abuse in the 1970s and 1980s in the media.
The Times: “Paedophile ring may have killed boy, 15”
Or to turn that headline around: “Paedophile ring may not have killed boy, 15.”
Georgia Keate writes:
Police investigating an alleged paedophile ring at Westminster have told the family of a missing boy that he may be one of the three children claimed to have been murdered by establishment figures. Martin Allen, the son of the Australian high commissioner’s chauffeur, went missing in 1979, aged 15. His brother, Kevin, 51, has said he was called by Detective Chief Inspector Diane Tudway of the Metropolitan police on Friday, who said she was investigating whether Martin’s disappearance was linked to an alleged VIP ring.
More on the vanishing of Martin Allen can be read here.
Operation Midland, the investigation into the deaths, was set up this month. Officers said that intelligence from Operation Fairbank, which is looking into whether high-profile figures were involved in organised child sex abuse in the 1970s and 1980s, suggested that murders had taken place.
Suggested murders had taken place…
Is there any proof that Westmisnter elite were involved in killing children?
A man known as Nick, who said he was abused by MPs and establishment figures, had alleged that he saw three boys being murdered by the paedophile network. He said one was deliberately run over, a second was strangled by a Conservative MP and the third was killed in front of a government minister.
Why should Nick be believed without examination and evidence? The cult of the whistleblower is such that Nick is believed rather than doubted.
The case of Martin Allen’s disappearance was closed in the 1980s, but reopened in 2009 and shut again last year. Mr Allen and his brother, Jeffrey, 61, have described how police said in 2009 the files had been destroyed in a flood. “We had to give evidence over again to the police,” Mr Allen said. “But then later, when the case was still open, the two detectives on it told us that a retired police officer had withdrawn the files and gone to Spain. They said they had tried to get a warrant to question the officer but couldn’t get it from the Spanish authorities. You don’t know what to believe.” Jeffrey Allen said the detective who led the case in 1979 had told his family that there were “high-up people involved” and that they should “not take it further because someone will get hurt”.
The Socialist Worker now adds:
Files relating to official requests for media blackouts in the early 1980s were destroyed. D-notices were warnings not to publish intelligence that might damage national security. Two newspaper editors said that their publications were issued with them when they sought to report on allegations of a powerful group of men engaging in child sex abuse in 1984.
One is Hilton Tims, news editor of the Surrey Comet. He said that his chief reporter had informed him that a D-notice had been issued when he tried to write about a police investigation into Elm Guest House, in southwest London.
Don Hale said he was 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.
Officials running the D-notice system said that files “going back beyond 20 years are not complete because files are reviewed and correspondence of a routine nature with no historical significance destroyed”.
A spokesman for the D-notice system said,“If Don Hale was ‘served’ with anything purporting to be a ‘D-notice’, it was quite obviously a fabrication.”
The Guardian elaborates:
The spokesman added: “I cannot believe that past D-notice secretaries would have countenanced the destruction of any key documents. I can only repeat that while any attempted cover-up of this incident might have been attributed to a D-notice the truth would be that it was not.”
Theresa May, home secretary, this month told the Commons that an official review into whether there had been a cover-up of the Home Office’s handling of child-abuse allegations in the 1980s had returned a verdict of “not proven”. The review, by Peter Wanless, the chief executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, was prompted by the discovery that 114 Home Office files related to child abuse in the 1980s had gone missing.
On Saturday night the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk, whose book Smile for the Camera exposed the child sex abuse of the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith, said…
Not quite right.
The Labour MP has been vocal on matters of Smith and young boys. But, as yet, nothing if proven and Smith remains dead. It was the Rochdale Alternative Newspaper that pointed the finger at Cyril Smith when the MP was very much alive. Any note were lost / tossed away by Lancashire’s finest.
Danczuk [Rochdale MP] said: “There are clearly questions to be answered as to why these documents were destroyed. They issue very few of them – where was the need to destroy correspondence? It feels like just another example of key documents from that period going missing. We need to know more about what has happened. The journalists who have said that D-notices were issued are respected people with no reason to lie.”
Well, Rochdale’s police and politicians were respectable people before the story that the town was a haven for depravity came to light.
The same police that ignored children’s appeal for help is now quite happy to bury the dead Smith in manure:
“The force is now publicly acknowledging that young boys were victims of physical and sexual abuse committed by Smith.”
No need for a trail. Proof. Evidence. Case closed. Job done. The same police that ignored actual victims who had evidence and could point to their living abusers is now able to decree that the dead man did it.
The two journalists, Don Hale, the former editor of the Bury Messenger, and Hilton Tims, news editor of the Surrey Comet between 1980 and 1988, both recall their publications being issued with D-notices around 1984… Tims, 82, said: “One of the reporters on routine calls to the police learned that there was something going down at the guest house in Barnes. It was paedophilia, although that wasn’t the fashionable phrase at the time, it was ‘knocking up young boys’, or something like that.
“The reporter was told that there were a number of high-profile people involved and they were getting boys from a care home in the Richmond area. So I put someone on to it, the chief reporter I think, to make inquiries. It was the following day that we had a D-notice slapped on us; the reporter came over and told me. It was the only time in my career.”
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Hale said: “Then shortly after Cyril Smith bullied his way into my office. I thought he was going to punch me. He was sweating and aggressive and wanted to take the files away, saying it was a load of nonsense and that Barbara Castle just had a bee in her bonnet about homosexuals. I refused to give him the files.
“The very next day two non-uniformed officers, about 15 uniformed officers and another non-uniformed person, who didn’t introduce himself, came to the office waving a D-notice and said that I would be damaging national security if I reported on the file.”
Had only that D-notice been taken and filed by the paper. Did nobody keep any notes back then?
Posted: 26th, November 2014 | In: Politicians, Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
