Wanless review findings draw no evidence over alleged child abuse cover-up

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The review findings of how British Home Office handled a dossier over historic allegations of child sex abuse exposing public figures during the 1970s, 80s and 90s have drawn on Tuesday that there was no evidence of an organised cover-up.

The paedophile inquiry, which U.K. government announced in July, probed the renewed questions over what happened to an alleged dossier of claims made against a number of lawmakers and other figures during 1980s.

The report by Chief Executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) charity Peter Wanless and barrister Richard Whittam QC, has found: “Based on registered papers we have seen, and our wider enquiries, we found nothing to support a concern that files had been deliberately or systematically removed or destroyed to cover up organised child abuse.

“We found nothing specific to support a concern that the Home Office had failed in any organised or deliberate way to identify and refer individual allegations of child abuse to the police.”

However, the conclusions also included: “It is very difficult to prove anything definitive based on imperfectly operated paper records system at 30 years remove.”

Mr Wanless has also indicated of having no evidence that the Home Office had funded the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a group which campaigned in the 1970s and 1980s to abolish the age of consent for sex.

There have been rumours circulating since decades about an organised ring of paedophiles in Westminster. And then there were rumours that focus on a dossier that late lawmaker Geoffrey Dickens said to have compiled in 1983 with allegations against MPs and other public figures, but of which no record remains.

Claims of a cover-up were fuelled after the interior ministry earlier in 2014 that it had lost 114 files relating to complaints about abuse between 1979 and 1999.

A government-commissioned investigation committee has been devised to inquire the matter. But the first two women appointed to head the probe both quit over concerns about their links to the establishment.

After the findings revealed, campaigners for victims of abuse have expressed concern that the Wanless review was too short and not far-reaching enough.

Labour lawmaker Simon Danczuk has said: “I am worried that it will become known as the Wanless whitewash.

“I don’t believe he has been given enough support from Home Office officials.”

Home secretary Theresa May has welcomed the review findings while asking Mr Wanless and Mr Whittam QC to closely look what was done with any material passed on to the spy agency, MI5, as well as further examine at the role of police and prosecutors.

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1 Comment

  1. “We can hardly expect to maintain our free and democratic way of life if our security services have to obey a bunch of stupcomment_ID laws and human rights all the time……. What next? Oversight? Transparency? Accountability? My god”

    We can hardly expect State, and it’s GCHQ, to maintain control, and prevent democracy, without their Human Resources Program.

    Without blackmailable politicians, and the elite, there would be no control. The next thing, they would have freedom to vote in a democratic way, we would get full democracy, GCHQ would be dismantled, whistleblowers would be freed, no more Maslows’ torture for whistleblowers.

    They wont allow this!

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