Child Abuse

‘Investigate deaths linked to child sex ring’

Labour MP John Mann calls for investigations into two deaths of men, who tried to "blow the whistle" on alleged Westminster sex ring, to be reopened by police

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By Telegraph Reporter

12:21AM GMT 23 Dec 2014

AN MP has called for the reinvestigation of the suspicious deaths more than 20 years ago of two whistle-blowers he believes had significant information relating to organised child abuse.

John Mann, the Labour member for Bassetlaw, called on Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to lift the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act in relation to historical abuse, which he believes are preventing former Special Branch police officers from coming forward with vital information relating to allegations of a child sex ring linked to powerful people in Westminster in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mr Mann’s comments came as a second Labour MP, Simon Danczuk, warned that the Government looked as though it did not “want to get to the truth” after Mrs May indicated that a troubled inquiry panel commissioned to look into the issue could be disbanded and replaced.

Mr Danczuk said victims would be dismayed at the lack of progress in the inquiry, and could not help worrying that the litany of mistakes, including the resignation of two chairmen following claims about their perceived closeness to establishment figures, was “deliberate”…

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