July 05, 2005 http://pierrejoubert.blogspot.co.uk
Scallywag Magazine alleged that MI5 used to take foreign diplomats
to the North Wales homes, give them boys to "play" with, secretly filmed
them as they buggered, abused and tortured boys then kept the tapes as
evidence.
Over a dozen victims who complained of abuse by the paedophile ring 'have
met suspicious deaths'.
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http://conformandobey.co.uk/pages/nick-davies-97.html
October 15th, 1997
PUBLIC FIGURES NAMED IN PAEDOPHILE RING
Nick Davies, in The Guardian:
"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...
"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."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/21/newsid_2506000/2506835.stm
1997: More than 80 people were named as child abusers in statements to the
North Wales inquiry into claims of abuse by children in care, which has
opened at Ewloe near Mold.
The largest number of complaints centre on the notorious Bryn Estyn home
outside Wrexham, which has now closed. The deputy head of the home, Peter
Howarth, was jailed in 1994 for 10 years for sexually abusing teenage boys.
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Sir Ronald Waterhouse's findings were published in February 2000. His report
named and criticised almost 200 people for either abusing children or
failing to offer them sufficient protection.
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http://www.socialequality.org.uk/iw/241/14a241.shtml
International Worker No 241, 8 November 8, 1997:
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. Clwyd County Council commissioned an independent inquiry and
then ruled that its report could not be published..."
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