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The council official told a new witness, tracked down in a Mirror investigation, that he suspected vulnerable youngsters were being assaulted by an organised gang
Cold case detectives are probing the murder of a council official who vowed to expose a paedophile ring allegedly linked to a future minister in Tony Blair’s government.
The daughter of Bulic Forsythe believes her father may have been killed because he uncovered a children’s home vice ring involving powerful figures.
Bulic told a new witness, tracked down in a Mirror investigation, that he suspected vulnerable youngsters were being assaulted by an organised gang at one home said to have been visited by the Labour politician.
But days later Bulic, 42, was beaten to death in his flat and the case has remained unsolved for 21 years.
Documents reveal detective Clive Driscoll advised the investigation should be reopened when he found potential links to his 1998 children’s homes probe in Lambeth, South London.
But Mr Driscoll was removed from the case for naming the Blair minister as a suspect and Bulic’s murder file has not been touched for 14 years.
Scotland Yard’s Serious Crime Review Group are finally looking at it afresh after the Daily Mirror tracked down the daughter he never met.
Kiddist Forsythe – born three months after Bulic’s murder and 21 next week – said: “Police must examine whether my dad was killed because of what he knew about child sex abuse in Lambeth and if it was linked to people in power.
“We know that he told more than one person he was going to expose wrongdoing in the borough shortly before he was murdered and that his killer or killers remain free.”
Firefighters burst into Bulic’s blazing flat early on Friday, February 6, 1993, and found his blood-soaked body.
The social services manager’s skull had been fractured by a heavy weapon.
In the months before his murder, Bulic had told colleagues at Lambeth Council he was on the verge of exposing child sex abuse and corruption.
A new witness told detectives for the first time last year that a terrified Bulic confided in her shortly before his death.
Speaking after she was tracked down by the Mirror, the former Lambeth worker said: “Bulic said, ‘With what I’m about to tell you I’m taking a big risk.
"What if I was to say that council buildings are being used for child sexual abuse on a regular basis’.”
The witness added: “Bulic came to me a second time because South Vale [youth assessment centre in West Norwood] had closed and he asked me who had the keys.
"He said, ‘People are saying they are using it to make films’. He was very frightened about something and then he was murdered.”
Bulic died at the time of an internal Lambeth council probe into alleged sexual abuse in the housing department where he had worked.
The resulting report, obtained by the Mirror, details allegations of rape, sexual assault and the swapping of child abuse videos and violent porn within the council. It implicated senior Lambeth officers as well as police and local politicians.
The report, signed by chair of the panel Eithne Harris, states: “The murder of Bulic Forsythe was seen by some witnesses as a possible outcome for anyone who strayed too far in their investigation or who asked too many questions.”
Published internally in December 1993, it adds: “The panel heard evidence about BF [Bulic Forsythe] while he was working in Social Services, speaking to a colleague and telling her he was going to ‘spill the beans’.
"Three days later he was killed.”
This is not the witness traced by the Mirror.
It states: “BF had allegedly expressed his fear of [boss initials] to another witness who visited him.
"He appeared very frightened to the witness. The witness at this point appeared fearful”
The report describes the atmosphere in the department as “one of intense fear”.
Though the panel found no “direct link” between his death and work it said its evidence should be handed to police.
Bulic was last seen alive at 8.45pm on Wednesday, February 4, 1993.
A BBC Crimewatch broadcast five months later revealed that at 10am on the Thursday three official looking men were seen by a neighbour carrying files away from his flat in Clapham, South London.
Two more men were seen in a car behind the property at 2pm. His bedroom was torched at 1am on Friday and the oven turned on.
Kiddist’s mum and Bulic’s widow, Dawn, 60, said: “I think someone wanted to shut him up.”
Paedophiles abused children in Lambeth’s homes for decades.
A former social services manager told Mr Driscoll in 1998 that she saw the future Blair minister making evening visits to the Angell Road children’s home in Brixton in the early 80s.
She claimed she learnt he had visited South Vale.
The most serious issue facing people in the UK today.’
ReplyDeleteDr Tig Calvert PhD.
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Summary.
There is strong and reliable evidence of widespread and horrific sexual abuse of children having taken place within the British Establishment. The people of this country have a duty to ensure that an effective and transparent investigation is allowed to take place, that guilty perpetrators are held to account, whatever position in society they hold, and that children are protected.
The Facts.
A full criminal investigation, Operation Fernbridge, was launched in February 2013, concerning evidence of a “powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10″. The investigation incudes abuse carried out at Elm Guest House, Rocks Lane, near Barnes Common, during the late 1970s and 1980s. There is evidence that Jimmy Savile had links to Elm House and procured young victims for the VIPs attending the guest house, often from local children’s homes. There is evidence that high ranking police officers, celebrities and politicians frequented the guest house. A number of deceased suspects have been named including Cyril Smith, Charles Irving, Ray Wyre and Anthony Blunt. The guest house also had links with the Paedophile Information Exchange (P.I.E) which campaigned in the 70s and 80s for the age of sexual consent to be reduced to the age four. In Feb 2013, two men were arrested and released on bail. These were John Stingemore who up until 1981 was the Officer in Charge of Grafton Close children’s home and Father Tony McSweeney, a Roman Catholic priest of St George’s parish in Norwich. Both men have been bailed pending further inquiries until April. A senior Tory ex-cabinet minister has recently been reported as the next likely arrest.
A further 12 men have been arrested and bailed in relation to child sex offences, stemming from Operation Yewtree in connection with Jimmy Savile and the abuse he committed on 328 children. These include Gary Glitter, Freddie Starr, former BBC producer Wilfred De’ath, Max Clifford, an unnamed man in his 60s, BBC radio producer Ted Beston, an unnamed man in his 50s and a man, aged 65, and Rolf Harris. The unnamed suspects may have secured an injunction to prevent the press revealing their identity.
You may ask yourself, why are there so many rich and successful people sexually abusing children and how did they get to these positions of power and authority? There is evidence of widespread corruption and blackmail making the ambitious but vulnerable ideal candidates to rise to the top of organisations.
The Issue.
All previous attempts to uncover these crimes have been thwarted. There is fear that once again the facts will be covered up because they involve high ranking police, politicians at every level, links to the Royal family and judges themselves. Leon Brittan, then Home Secretary, was given a dossier in 1983 alleging a paedophile ring involving Buckingham Palace, the Foreign Office and the civil service, and another in 1984 alleging child abuse in a children’s home and a paedophile TV executive. He failed to act on this evidence. In 2013, he claims he cannot remember the incidents.
Currently the main stream media are not reporting on Fernbridge which is indicative of a cover-up. Unless we, the people, do something, these terrible atrocities will be covered-up again and children will continue to be abused. Unless we do something then the sexual abuse of children and the associated corruption will continue to have a strong grip within the establishment of Britain.
ReplyDeleteA march or rally to the sights of this abuse ending outside the old bailey would be a good step to highlight to the worlds media what british justice really stands for. To protect the children inscribed on the edifice of the old bailey, what hypocracy for a supposed democracy. Some of the top esablishment figures are being protected till the grave, disgusting. Corruption is endemic and caustic and the countless tormented young lives brutalised and left with mental scars for a lifetime, many could not face the future and took their own lives. Others sank into drink, drugs, prostitution and crime and some were murdered when they told their stories. When will the remaining victims get justice and this is still being perpetrated the length and bredth of this country. Its time to rise up and shout for justice for the victims of establishmrnt sex abuse.
At Justice Denied we totally agree with you. Until this evil is exposed every man woman and child in the UK is at risk. Those pedophile criminals who sit smugly in parliament, or parade in their uniforms, or don their wigs and posture in court rooms must be removed. Integrity must be brought back to the UK justice system. The people must rise up and fight to remove this canker from the body of the United Kingdom before it infects everyone.
DeleteIt wasn't Jill Dando who appeared in the video, it was Sue Cook!.
ReplyDeleteJill Dando was not presenting Crimewatch at that time (1993) mate, think you've got a bit confused there
ReplyDeleteJil Dando started on Crime-watch in 1995 :-) but the article links the murder of Bulic with the murder of Jill solely because they were investigating the same pedophile ring. Thanks for reading
DeleteIts about time all this abuse in child ten homes came out of the bag. I was in two of the homes what was mention. While the abusers get away with the abuse the victims suffers for the rest of their lives. Weres the justice in that.
ReplyDeleteLovely just what I was searching for. Thanks to the author for taking his time on this one.
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