Tpny Hyland wrote an article entitled: 'State cover-up of high level paedophile ring.'
"Care workers ... acted as go-betweens for a paedophile ring that extends into the topmost layers of society.
"Policemen, church ministers, local authority executives, senior businessmen and politicians, including someone believed to be a leading supporter of Margaret Thatcher, have been identified.
"The present Public Tribunal into the case...... measures have been taken to prevent the proceedings from being covered fully in the national media."In the event the press has been virtually absent from the proceedings.
There would have been no significant national coverage of this major scandal, if not for the work of a single journalist, Nick Davies of The Guardian...
"Waterhouse has also indicated that the final report will not find the "public figure" culpable of any crimes, even though he has been identified by six victims.
He stated that whilst a number of the abusers will be named, those of the two policemen will be omitted, even though one of them has already been convicted of sexual offences against children...
"39 children's homes in North Wales have been implicated. Nearly 300 people have given evidence as victims of abuse. Some 148 individuals have been identified as abusers...
Key aspects:
"John Allen, a convicted paedophile, ran a complex of homes in London and North Wales that supplied children to wealthy outsiders. Allen is currently serving a six year sentence.
"At the Bryn Alyn home, two senior officials have already been convicted of systematic sexual abuse of children in their care.
Another, Paul Wilson, was convicted of violent attacks on children but given a suspended sentence. He was accused of physical assault on 66 occasions by 66 different boys.
"A room at the Crest Hotel in Wrexham was regularly hired out on Sunday evenings to VIP's who were ensured a steady supply of children for their sexual gratification.
"Over a dozen victims who complained of abuse by the paedophile ring have met suspicious deaths.
Two brothers who were abused by Allen were trying to blackmail him. In April 1992 one of them died in a house fire in Brighton. The other died soon afterwards in mysterious circumstances....
"One witness ...claimed to have been abused by 49 different people.
At the age of 11, he attended army cadets where two of the instructors, both policemen, raped him repeatedly. At an army cadet weekend camp he was raped by another instructor.
"Far from social services providing a haven from such abuse, it became the means through which he was exposed to even worse physical and mental torment. At his first home he was indecently assaulted by the superintendent, groped by one housemaster, beaten by another, half-drowned by a senior housemaster and slapped by a policemen he tried to complain to."At his second home, aged 15, he was abused by those in charge of the centre and offered up to wealthy outsiders. He described one of these as "a powerful public figure". After this man took him to an outhouse and orally and anally raped him, he was told, "Just remember who I am.""At the age of 16, he ran away from the Wrexham home, but ended up in the custody of one of the army cadet instructors who had raped him. This man introduced him to a group of 20 associates, who took turns to abuse him.
Amongst the culprits identified were two jewellers, a director of a major company, a local authority executive, a Roman Catholic priest and another social worker. Many of those identified have subsequently been convicted of sexual crimes against children...
"The most revealing evidence is that regarding one of the paedophiles, who it was hinted at was one of Mrs Thatcher's most prominent supporters.
"When the police finally arrested 17 suspects during an inquiry in 1991 the victim claims, 'For some unknown reason, he was not arrested like anybody else. He was allowed to walk round the North Wales Police headquarters and he was allowed to vindicate himself from anything, as if he was the boss... I tried to tell the police of many instances not just relating to him and I was told at the time, and I will never forget it as long as I live, that they were not interested in that.'
"The tribunal was informed that the North Wales police had in fact recommended that the man be prosecuted, but this was blocked by the Crown Prosecution Service in London - which took over the case from its local branch...
"Those who turned to the police or other social workers for help were met with indifference or outright hostility.
A total of 27 separate police inquiries failed to produce anything substantial.
"When the police finally launched a major inquiry in 1991, they secured the conviction of only four of the care workers and concluded that there was no evidence of a paedophile ring.
A total of 13 reports by social services went unpublished.
On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 01:21:26 GMT, catf...@catfish.nildram.co.uk
(Anthony) wrote:
<snip>
>Now defunct magazine Scallywag covered events at Bryn Alyn in detail,
>some years ago. Scallywag is still available online -
>www.scallywag.org. >The magazine alleged that the peer referred to in the article is Lord
>McAlpine, at the time of the offences treasurer of the governing
>Conservative Party. Another regular participant in the activities at
>Bryn Clwyd was alleged by Scallywag to be Derek Laud, for years a
>leading mover and shaker in successive Conservative administrations.
From the Scallywag website :- [- began quoted extract -] ------------------------------------------------------ Michael Brown is one of the very few Conservative MP's who volunteered
to "out" himself as a gay. Derek Laud, now standing for parliament,
(against Bernie Grant in North London) ran a Pimlico PR agency called
Ludgate Communications for a number of years which supplied young boys
for selected parliamentarians from children's homes now being
investigated in North Wales. He sometimes did this in cahoots with Ian
Greer Associates which has since been scandalised because of the Neil
Hamilton Affair and payment for questions on behalf of Al Fayed. Ludgate Communications was at the very hub of our investigation into
the "boys for questions" allegations. At his Pimlico flat, and
selected addresses in Dolphin Square nearby, Laud threw paedophile
parties and we have one sworn affidavit from a former boy (presently
giving evidence in Wales) who claims he was seriously molested (among
many others) by Lord McAlpine who was at the time the Tory party's
clandestine fund raiser.
It was alleged by this boy and others that Messrs Portillo and Lilley were also guests of Derek Laud. We are assured that this particular volcano is about to erupt, both in North
Wales and elsewhere. Michael Portillo has always publicly
disassociated himself from Derek Laud, yet here we find him not only
acquainted but seemingly in the inner sanctum of private friends. [- end quoted extract -]
Policemen, social workers and prominent public figures have been accused of belonging to a paedophile ring which indulged in a relentless campaign of physical and sexual abuse in children's homes in North Wales.
The names of the alleged members of the ring have been given by witnesses in public sessions of the North Wales Child Abuse Tribunal, but they have been suppressed by the tribunal's chairman, Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC, who has threatened the media with High Court proceedings if they print them.
The Guardian today publishes for the first time detailed evidence about the alleged ring, which is said to have been based in Wrexham, and to have infiltrated local children's homes over a 20 year period.
Witnesses claim that members of the ring used their connections with police and social services to conceal their activities. All of the accused have denied the allegations.
Those named to the tribunal include:
A man who bears the same surname as a prominent Conservative supporter. Two witnesses have told the tribunal of a rich and powerful man who belonged to the alleged ring.
The son of an influential peer who admitted to police that he had been having sex with an under-age boy from one of the homes. Despite his admission, he was never prosecuted.
A powerful public official who has previously been cleared of abuse. Six witnesses have given separate accounts to the tribunal of his alleged rape of young boys. Another has reported him attending parties in Wrexham which were supplied with boys from a children's home.
Two social workers and two police officers, one of whom was accused of abuse on four separate occasions and exonerated each time, another of whom has since been jailed in another part of the country for gross indecency with a child.
More than a dozen other local men, including an executive with a local authority, a senior probation officer and a director of a major company.
All those named as members of the alleged ring have denied the charges, either in evidence to the tribunal or through their lawyers.
When the tribunal was established last year, it had been assumed that the press could report its proceedings, using the laws of privilege which allow them to name names from court cases and public hearings without fear of libel actions.
However, Sir Ronald then ruled that the media could not report the name of any living person who was accused or likely to be accused of abusing children in the North Wales homes unless they had previously been convicted of such an offence.
Since then he has extended his ruling twice: he has granted anonymity to one man who died 16 years ago and to another who has twice been convicted of sexually assaulting boys from a North Wales home.
Sir Ronald has argued that his ruling will encourage alleged paedophiles to come froward and give honest evidence without fear of retribution. Critics say this is unnecessary, since he has the power to compel witnesses to attend, and that those who have come forward have done so to deny the allegations and not to make a clean breast of their alleged offences.
One lawyer who has been involved with the tribunal said he feared that the anonymity ruling was actively discouraging witnesses. "Newspaper readers may well have information of potential value to this tribunal. They may themselves have been the victims of abuse, or they may have worked with the alleged abusers. But if the press is not allowed to inform them of the names of those against whom allegations are made, they will not learn that their information is important. So they will not come forward."
The tribunal was ordered by the last Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, William Hague, after Clwyd county council decided not to publish the report of an independent inquiry into allegations of abuse in its children's homes. The tribunal, which has been hearing witnesses for eight months, is expected to continue to take evidence until January.
Tapestry said...
1.20 am Jermaine Michael. If Gary was molested as a ten year old, he could have been threatening to reveal more in the media, and the Despatches was just the beginning of an attempted campaign against the paedophiles.
This is the Achilles heel of the powerful elites that dominate the world. They all seem to have an interest in paedophilia. It's the recurring theme that won't go away, with Royalty, politicians (Dunblane/Hamilton) and central bankers.They see it as their right to acquire the children they desire. This could explain why powerful people would want to murder Gary - to silence him. That would be a lot more of a possibility than him being worried about being gay - if in fact he was. On that front there are only rumours. Here is some stronger evidence of which way to look to find an explanation.
If Louise knows anything about what Gary was doing exposing paedophiles operating in football, she would now keep very quiet indeed. Is this what her strange tweets were about - looking to find the good in humanity? It would fit. She was aware of a great evil, and was trying to rationalise it.
One of the new alleged victims in the sexual harassment case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky told a grand jury that Sandusky's wife ignored his screams for help while Sandusky raped him in the basement of their home.
Sandusky rearrested in Pennsylvania
The young man, identified in the new complaint as Victim No. 9, who is now 18 years old, said in his testimony that Sandusky attempted to rape him at least 16 times, sometimes successfully.
"I took it at first he was just a nice guy, like he went to church every weekend, his kids come over every once in a while and stuff," the young man testified. "And after a while, like, he got used to me and stuff and started getting further and further wanting — to touch feely."
The presentment says the contacts eventually "escalated to sexual assaults."
The testimony is revealed in a new grand jury presentment that the Pennsylvania attorney's general office released after Sandusky was arrested Wednesday on new charges of sexual abuse of two more young men.
The five-page presentment gives numerous graphic details of the alleged assaults on Victims 9 and 10, including allegations that Sandusky forced Victim No. 10 to perform oral sex on him.
