Roots of dirty crime
Scotland Yard is probing five VIP paedophile rings
after Labour MP hands in dossier naming six serving politicians and Lords
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MP
John Mann has given explosive dossier on alleged abuse to police
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Document
names 22 politicians, including three serving MPs
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It
also names three members of House of Lords linked to historic abuse
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Mr
Mann says 'at least five paedophile rings which involved MPs'
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Dossier
also includes names of 13 ex-ministers, including at least two who are claimed
to have gone to 'abuse parties' at Dolphin Square, Pimlico
PUBLISHED: 23:43 GMT, 21
December 2014 | UPDATED: 08:52
GMT, 22 December 2014
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Dossier: Labour MP John Mann (pictured)
has submitted an explosive dossier to police naming 22 politicians linked to
historical child abuse
Police are investigating
claims that at least five paedophile rings operating at the heart of
Westminster were covered up.
Labour MP John Mann has
submitted an explosive dossier to police naming 22 politicians – including
three serving MPs and three serving members of the House of Lords – linked to
historical child abuse.
Last night, he said the
complexity of the criminality at the heart of the Establishment during the
1970s and 1980s had been underestimated.
The latest claims come
after Mr Mann revealed in the Mail last week that he was aware of five
investigations dropped by Scotland Yard into alleged VIP child abuse which took
place over the last three decades.
Last night the Bassetlaw
MP said: ‘There are at least five paedophile rings which involved MPs. Each of
them involved at least one MP, some involved more, and these were groups of
people who knew about the activities of one another.
‘In some cases I believe
they committed abuse together.’ He told the Daily Telegraph: ‘Three of these
figures were highly influential.’
The document submitted
to police by Mr Mann also includes the names of 13 ex-ministers, including at
least two who are claimed to have gone to ‘abuse parties’ held at Dolphin
Square, the luxury riverside estate in Pimlico which has been home to dozens of
MPs.
Mr Mann acted after
receiving hundreds of reports from the public. Last month the Mail revealed how
in 1989 as a young councillor in Lambeth, South London, Mr Mann uncovered
evidence that a Tory Cabinet minister was allegedly involved.
He alerted police but
was told three months later that the inquiry was being shelved on the orders of
‘those at the top’.
Now Mr Mann has compiled
‘credible’ information about 22 high-profile figures alleged to have committed
offences between 1970 and the late-1990s.
The report names 14 Tory politicians, five Labour and three others. Mr Mann told the Daily Mail: ‘All of these allegations are historic but some of these people are still in positions of power, having been local councillors or MPs at the time. The offences span almost 30 years.
‘But I am still getting
more information coming into me. There may be more.’ He added: ‘All those 22
names are worthy of investigation by the police. The evidence against half of them is very compelling.
‘Some of them could
definitely be prosecuted and I believe several of them were definitely child
abusers.’
He told the Sunday
Times: ‘Some of these victims have been ignored for years by the police and the
Met really needs to step up to the mark now and do a proper job.’
Mr Mann also said he had
received allegations that an organised crime gang and a celebrity were involved
in the trafficking of young boys to abusers at Dolphin Square.
But many of the reports
were never investigated at the time.
Met Police Deputy
Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse has confirmed he is now assessing Mr
Mann’s dossier as part of a raft of allegations that police acted
inappropriately in relation to child abuse investigations covering a period
from the mid-1970s up to 2005.
Scotland Yard last week
made a dramatic appeal for witnesses to three alleged child murders carried out
by the Westminster paedophile ring, describing claims that a Conservative MP
strangled a boy of 12 as ‘credible and true’.
An expert panel set up
in July to look into historical child abuse is poised to be scrapped after
being beset by problems, including the resignation of two chairmen.
Home Secretary Teresa
May has told its eight members that a new body will be established with more
powers.
Sharon Evans, who runs a
children’s charity and is on the panel, said: ‘Halting the inquiry would send a
very negative message to so many people who we have promised they can have
confidence in us to do the right thing.’
Last month, it emerged
that another dossier compiled by MP Geoffrey Dickens had vanished after being
sent in 1983 to the then home secretary Leon Brittan. It named MP Cyril Smith
and other suspected establishment figures as involved in child sex abuse.
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