Waterhouse inquiry into Welsh child abuse claims to be re-investigated

The former Bryn Estyn childrens home in Wrexham, Wales

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The former Bryn Estyn childrens home in Wrexham, WalesPrime minister, David Cameron has ordered to reinvestigate the Waterhouse inquiry and look into the allegations that a former senior Tory politician was involved in abusing a 13-year-old boy at a children’s home in North Wales in the 1970s.

Mr. Cameron has announced two parallel inquiries into historic reports of child abuse by a paedophile ring at children’s homes in Wrexham, North Wales. The first inquiry will look into the conduct of the original official inquiry into the child sex abuse ring and the second into the police handling of complaints at the time.

Downing Street launched the new investigation three days after the sexual abuse victim; Steve Messham claimed that a senior Tory had abused him in a hotel room with eight other paedophiles when he was just 13 years old. He has stated that he had been taken out of a care home and “sold” to men for sexual abuse at a nearby hotel.

The Home Secretary, Theresa May said the “appalling and shocking” claims must be assessed again, despite a previous investigation into child sex abuse in North Wales care homes.

The previous inquiry ordered by William Hague, then Welsh secretary in 1996 had found that the allegations against the unnamed senior Tory were groundless in 2000 and prevented the names of 28 alleged abusers from being published.

The accused senior Tory of that time has persistently refused the claims and told that he has only once visited Wrexham in North Wales, where the abuse took place.

He has stated: “Some guy said I was in the habit of taking young men from Wrexham in my Rolls-Royce.

“But I have only been to Wrexham once and I didn’t visit the children’s home, I made a speech to the constituency. I was with an official at all times. I never had a Rolls Royce.

“When the inquiry was taking place I hired a lawyer to watch it in case there was any mention of my name. The point is that it is totally without any grounds whatsoever.”

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