JUSTICE DENIED

This is just a fraction of the children's homes in the UK where abuse has taken place.

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Having been in "care", and realised "Nobody needs That much Care" I had spent 22 years carefully boxing up all the demons and putting them in soundproof rooms, behind locked doors in the darkest parts of my mind, then locking the last door and planning on never going near it again. I tried to move on with my life. Not very successfully, but I survived. Eventually found a stable relationship. Wasn't great, but he coped with my temper.

When David Cameron announced in 2012 that he was reopening the investigation into North Wales, my life fell apart. My 9 year relationship broke down over the first few weeks, as did the doors holding back the demons.

To stop the demons, I decided I would do what I have always done when the **** hits the fan - bury my nose in a book.

Welcome to Institutional Child Abuse 101 ;)

The map was created focusing on Greystone Heath as a starting point, although I now realise it should have been Red Barns in 1950's, with Peter's' Howarth and Righton.

Over the last 60 years, paedophiles have been allowed to infiltrate every rung of the ladder needed to facilitate access to children.

From Residential and Field Social Workers right up throughout the ranks of Local Councils, Police, Teachers, Doctors, Politicians and the people behind the scenes, the ones we all know actually run the show, the Civil Service and Policy Advisors.

The 1950's and '60's saw the emergence of a widespread sickening trend within Residential Social Work.

The systematic abuse of children within the commercial and public Children's Homes, Approved Schools and Boarding Schools.

In the 1970's and '80's, the pioneering advisor on Residential Childcare and Social Work was Peter Righton.

Whilst it was always an unvoiced joke in the “Old Boys Club's” that if the Master's didn't have you, the Head Boy certainly wouldn't want to know you, a “jolly good time” at prep school followed by a stint at Eton before “OxBridge” was considered the norm.

According to Professor Joy Schaverien, a leading psychotherapist,

“Children sent away to boarding school can suffer psychological damage akin to being taken into care.

"Boarding School Syndrome" can leave adults struggling to form intimate relationships and unable to communicate emotions after being traumatised by forced separation from friends and family at a young age.

Despite the damage, therapists fail to recognise the significance of boarding school in their patients' problems because such an education is still regarded as a character-forming privilege.”

45 years on and nothing has changed other than the name. Childcare and Safeguarding Policies are still being produced by people under suspicion of crimes against children.

The Government accepting these policies were, for the most part, tutored by or schooled alongside paedophiles, leaving them almost immune to the signs of child exploitation.

The information issued by Authorities on CSE is misleading at best and our children are still at risk.

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In 1965 at Greystone Heath, a 21-year-old student teacher named Keith Laverack started work there and embarked on a campaign of buggery and indecent assault. Over the ensuing four years, he raped at least 16 boys, three of whom he shared with his colleague;

Brian Percival, the clerk and storeman at the home. Once these two men had established sexual rights over the boys at Greystone, other abusers joined the staff;

Alan Langshaw, who raped at least 24 boys;

Dennis Grain who raped at least 18, joined Greystone Heath from Danesford children's home in Congleton, where he had already opened the door to three others, John Clarke, Joseph Smith and Brian Hudson;

Roy Shuttleworth who raped at least ten;

Terence Hoskin;

Jack Bennett who indecently assaulted two;

Steve Norris who assaulted an unknown number.

The Greystone abusers then fanned out.

Grain and Shuttleworth were both promoted to other homes in the Warrington area.

Terence Hoskin went on to become headteacher of St Aiden’s Community Home in Widnes, where he liked to thrash naked boys with a cane, which he then pushed into their backsides, while his housemaster, Colin Dick, indecently assaulted those who caught his eye.

Following a complaint, Dick was accused of indecent assault, but was acquitted.

Hoskin moved on to become President of NCH – Action for Children by 1980. Hoskin later wrote a reference for Colin Dick effectively stating he was no risk to children and a suitable candidate for the position of Residential Social Worker at a home in Manchester;

In 1981, both Grain and Hoskin were back working together at homes operated by the Hesley Group Limited, in Doncaster before Grain then moved on to Eton College;

Steve Norris went to North Wales where he met up with Peter Howarth.

Howarth had started out in Kent before moving on to Axwell Park. He was then recruited by Graville Arnold and moved to Bersham Hall in Wrexham. Norris and Howarth both went on to Bryn Estyn and met up with Gary Cooke.

Following a conviction for abusing boys in Bryn Estyn, Gary Cooke was then employed by Bryn Alyn Community, where he first worked at Marton's Camp and then Cotsbrook Hall in Shropshire. He later took position at a Probation Service run Youth Hostel.

Keith Laverack went to childrens’ homes in Cambridgeshire, where he worked with numerous colleagues, four of whom are now also suspected of abusing children. He eventually moved on to run the Guardian Ad Litem panel in Cambridgeshire. This job not only introduced him to the most vulnerable children in the area but also gave him access to files on abused children all over the country.

Alan Langshaw became Principal of St Vincent’s Catholic boys’ home in Formby where he recruited a care worker named Edward Stanton.

Alan Langshaw was jailed for 10 years in 1994 for 30 counts of serious sexual assaults and indecent assaults against boys aged under 16 at childrens homes in Cheshire and Liverpool. However when the first accusations were made around 1986 Edwina Currie, the Minister responsible for the child care system, was asked to intervene. She stood by Langshaw.

Langshaw went on to spend another eight years working and abusing children.

This is not the first or last time Edwina Currie has shown such poor judgement in people. When asked about her choice to hand Savile the keys to Broadmoor she insisted that;

' If this meant we could break the strike and help the patients,

then the ends justified the means.'

When asked about Savile's abuse of the mentally ill inmates she replied;

' If I'd have known, I would have said

" Jimmy give me the keys," and it would have stopped.'

Edwina Currie was very open when she admitted she knew Morrison had sex with 16-year-old boys when the age of consent was 21 and that he had been protected by a ‘culture of sniggering’. In her diaries, she called him ‘a noted pederast’, with a liking for young boys.

“Peter Morrison has become the PM’s PPS. New he’s what they call ‘a noted pederast’, with a liking for young boys; he admitted as much to Norman Tebbit when he became deputy chairman of the party, but added, ‘However, I’m very discrete’ – and he must be!.”

She also went on to give Jimmy Savile the keys to Broadmoor, an unqualified paedophile, DJ and hospital porter, friend of one of the hospitals most notorious inmates, Peter Sutcliffe.

Norman Tebbit had little choice in admitting openly, he was aware of Morrison's involvement with young boys as early as a decade before it became public knowledge.

Stanton appears to have got the job at St Vincent's through Roy Shuttleworth, who was continuing to abuse the boys at Greystone and who is believed to have known Stanton from their time in Birmingham when they took the same course in residential child care.

That course was lectured by Peter Righton, a notorious paedophile who attempted to legitimise his obsession in a series of academic studies.

Righton, for his part, belonged to the Paedophile Information Exchange, which wanted the age of consent lowered to four; along with Jack Bennett. He had also worked in the same children's home in Maidstone, Kent as Peter Howarth.

A child care expert and children’s home consultant, Righton published essays justifying paedophilia, which he called no more mysterious than “a penchant for redheads”.

Rod Ryall, the former Director of Calderdale Social Services, convicted in 1988, is also thought to have taken the Childcare Course along with Malcolm Phillips, convicted in 2001 under Operation Screen for abuse spanning decades at Skircoat Lodge, Halifax.

Ryall, who sat on several committee's with Righton, began his career at Newton Aycliffe before moving on to Tennal Assessment Centre in Birmingham.

When he was appointed Director of Social Services he had already been accused of crimes against children twice.

It is thought, when arrested, he was found in the private flat attached to Skircoat Lodge Assessment Centre, operated by Malcolm Phillips.

As head of the Assessment Centre, Malcolm Phillips had the final say in which placements were used if a child was to be sent to another Borough. Under his regime of tyranny, it is believed that “difficult” children were sent, by Social Services, to five currently identified external Borough units;

Newton Aycliffe (secure);

St Williams, Market Weighton (boys only);

Bryn Estyn (secure; until its closure in the 1980's);

Bryn Alyn Community (only sent girls although it accepted both);

Macclesfield Young Persons Unit (part of Parkside Mental Hospital; closed in 1992-4)

No known complaints were ever filed about abuse at this facility, run by Dr Peter Wells.

However, during a telephone conversation early 2014, conversation turned to the closing of the Young People's Unit. He distinctly recalled making several car journeys to the main nuthouse to deposit boxes of files within the catacombs. He remembers stacking the boxes in a room and then locking a door before leaving.

Three years later when Parkside closed, only one box related to the Y.P.U was passed to Cheshire archives.

Duncroft

Every year, two "gals" from Duncroft were taken on camping trips to Brancaster, Norfolk, via an overnight stay at Professor Bell's house in Cambridge (linked to his employ within the University).

The following day, a brief stop in Kings Lynn and onward to meet up with other girls from a variety of institutes across the UK.

The camp setup was based on the Guides model

Duncroft

Kitchen Incident

Gillian Coysh

Brenda Heighway.

B smacked G around head with pan for "not washing up properly."

received restricted duties for several weeks.

Brenda Heighway

Professor Bell

Brancaster Camp, Norfolk

Cambridge University

Miss "Minty" Minton

Miss Jones

Mr Rowe (gardener)

The Proms, 1965

Toilet incident

Hostel

Keith Barwell

Hostel rules stated "No girl to leave premises unescorted by a Male"

This led to the rape and impregnation of 1 girl, and subsequent trapped marriage and further children produced before she escaped him.

unfortunately, the children remained with their father, who then went on to subject 3 of them to abuse.

Brenda Heighway

Frances (Franny) no last name available.

Ms Draycot

Ms Hettie

Cite: Witness statement.

Bryn Alyn Community

Opened in the 1960's, Bryn Alyn Community housed "difficult" children from 42 local authorities.

The fees were all negotiated through Wirral Council. During the process, Wirral failed to actually inspect and assess the facilities, staff or setup.

Fully funded by Kenneth Henry White, the Company quickly expanded.

Despite all properties flagged for seizure of assets, Kenneth John White still owns Bryn Alyn Hall.

For thirteen years he ran a nursery on the property, following its closure as a children's home.

In 2013 the final files still in existence from Bryn Alyn Community were all burned.

Fire is a common theme with the private-owned children's community.

In 1992, Adrian Johns died in a fire in Brighton. That property was owned by Nicholas van Hoogstraten.

Van Hoogstraten is known for his business empire as well as his controversial life story: in 1968, he was convicted and sent to prison for paying a gang to attack a business associate. In 2002, he was sentenced to 10 years for the manslaughter of a business rival; the verdict was overturned on appeal and he was subsequently released, but in 2005 he was ordered to pay the victim's family £6 million in a civil case. He has been estimated to be worth £500 million, although he claims his assets in the UK have all been placed in the names of his children.

In 1995 most of the children's records being transported from the Inquiry team to the Courts were destroyed in a Pickfords furniture packing and shipping warehouse in Chester.

The warehouse itself has been subject of three fires in recent years.

It is still owned and operated by Pickfords.

When John Allen was finally paid off in the 1990's, prior to his arrest, his settlement from White senior was valued at over £500,000 pounds.

His personal loans and business loans (provided by White senior) were wiped out (£210,000)

Company Car released (£10,000)

Company interest in a Brighton property, villa in Bordeaux, yacht #2 (£200,000)

Gloucestershire cottage (£80,000)

£36,000 in return for all shares in the Companies.

The company purchased numerous properties over the 30 years it was in operation;

Bryn Alyn Hall

Gwastad Hall

Pentre Saeson Hall

Gatewen Hall

Bryntirion Hall

A property in Trevor Street, Hightown, Wrexham

A property in Poyser Street, Hightown, Wrexham

A property in Errdig Road, Hightown, Wrexham

A property in Queens Road, Gwersyllt, Wrexham

Marton's Camp, Shropshire

Cotsbrook Hall, Shropshire

34 Inverness Terrace, Bayswater, London

Villa in Bordeaux

A cottage in Gloucestershire

A yacht. John Allen also personally bought a part share in a second yacht with Dr Kedney

Interests in several properties in Brighton connected to Nicholas van Hoogstraten

facts:

70's - Bryn Alyn Community established, with ken white sr as financial and david evans as secretarty

70's - dr kedney and dr roberts are attached to the Community from their local practise in wrexham (just round corner from trevor street)

80's - ken white and david evans accused of physical and indecent assault respectively. both take non-residential care positions to avoid investigation. - fact as stated by Waterhouse.

80's - lynn williams accused of sexual impropriety with a resident of another children's home.

80's / 90's - stephen elliot and ken white jr make directors.

90's - police investigation starts in june 91

90's - medical records start to vanish for residents

90-91 - lynn williams pressures 4 girls at Gatewen Hall to have abortions and fails with 5th girl, before mutually agreed resignation.

91 - paul eccles replaced lynn williams as deputy of gatewen hall

91 - paul eccles spends several months actively pursuing, with the aid of Wrexham Social Services, the removal of newborn child from the 5th girl, leading to verbal complaint to Social Services in Wrexham for unfounded harassment of a new, young mother. by October '91 Social Services dropped the case.

91 - ken white replaced paul eccles as deputy of gatewen hall - back to residential care!

95 - John Allen signs over Co. and shares and BA to ken white sr for money, car, house and villa

95 - kedney keeps the yatch

95 - pentre saeson reverts to ken white sr in lieu of pension

96 - pentre saeson became prospects for young people - mentally ill children 8-21 -under stephen elliot (after bersham hall)

97 - Bryn Alyn Hall finally closed

97 - ken white junior inherited the lot when ken white senior died.

97 - prospects opened a home in chester run by ken white jr

97 - oasis care ltd is set up by david evans and ken white - social work with residential. mentally disabled 8-21 yr old, and elderly.

98 - ken white and david evans open a nursery on BA land

2012 - nursery closes.

ken white lived, with his wife, in bryn alyn hall, which is registered as an Hotel under Alyn Lodge ltd - hotels and other accomodation, until late 2013.

there are a total of 9 companies registered at alyn lodge, ponte y capel lane, gresford, as well as several more offsite.

david evans is a registered director of 14 actively trading companies at thee moment, half of which are registered at the Hall

ken white jr is a director of 8 companies - 7 trading at the moment. all registered at the Hall

circumstance? or dodgy?

prospects school which is in pentre saeson offers mechanics on the curriculem - david evans owns legacy service station (rhos) ltd - maintenance and repair of motor vehicles.

they also offer horse riding - ken white has 10 - 15 horses on the 50 acres attached to bryn alyn.

dodgy as hell!

prospects house the children across wrexham in 10 houses, a total of 27 beds.

so thats 2-3 kids per house. that to me sounds like unvetted foster parents.

See North Wales Abuse Uncovered for the Waterhouse Inquiry

I went back to Bryn Alyn Hall on Saturday 20th April and saw a single storey building in the process of being renovated.

My recollection of this building is that it contained the woodwork room and another couple of classrooms.

As we walked around the outside of the building, I could see paperwork in the windows, both loose sheets and files/folders.

The building looked as though it had been out of use since Bryn Alyn shut in 1997.

As we walked further across the driveway and round towards what is signposted as "Alyn Lodge" I noticed a distinct lack of horse.

What had been 10-15 horses in November was down to a meager 2, despite the warm weather.

Further round towards the footpath down to Wilderness, I noticed a lot of fencing was being replaced and a huge bonfire had been built, burned and was again in construction, as wheelbarrows of rubble and paperwork from the building were being dragged across the drainage ditches.

Update 16th November 2013:

Following a visit to Bryn Alyn by another victim, there are no longer any horses on the property.

John Allen had links with Michael John Carroll in Lambeth. The two friends maintained regular contact and in 1991, after it was no longer possible for Carroll to work with children, he bought The Hand Hotel in Chirk, just outside Wrexham, for £725,000.

Quite a sizable sum for a simple care worker.

Boarding Schools

School fees have now reached over £30,000 per year. Compare that to the £200,000+ spent by some Councils housing just one child in a private-run Children's Home, where Education is to GCSE level at best or non existent at worst.

Tonbridge School, Tonbridge, Kent

Chris Langham (Actor) cancelled an appearance, in 2012, at a top public school after parent fury about his child porn conviction.

Sevenoaks School, Kent

Gerd Sommerhoff was alleged to have displayed pornography or child pornography to pupils and to have made obscene sexual remarks that included boasts of bestiality. Sevenoaks School agreed to settle a compensation claim by another pupil sexually abused by Gerd Sommerhoff at Sevenoaks School when he was 12 years old. There is evidence that those who worked with Sommerhoff were aware of and chose not to report the abuse. Sommerhoff was an internationally-renowned teacher, inventor and philosopher and was the great grandson of German composer Robert Schumann.

Before joining Sevenoaks School, Sommerhoff taught science at the prestigious Dragon School in Oxford and presented science programmes for the BBC from 1960-62.

In 1984 he retired from teaching and moved to Trinity College, Cambridge. He produced a number of books, including Logic of the Living Brain in 1974 and Understanding Consciousness in 2001.

Eton College

This is one of 50 Schools that fall under the G20 Schools Group. Dennis Grain moved to Eton College where he became a House Master, this incidently, was during Prince William's attendance at the School.

Sherborne School, Dorset

Charles Napier, P.I.E treasurer, half brother to MP John Whittingdale, was known to have worked at Copthorne Preparatory School. Sherborne being his home village, where he shared a house with their Mother. In 2012 he had to resign from the local Theatre group of which he was Director, after it was discovered he would be working within the School.

Present enquiries into paedophile cover-ups are likely to examine how Charles Napier managed to continue teaching even after his first conviction for indecent assault in 1972. He was banned from teaching in the UK, but emigrated and by the late 1970s (already an active member of the Paedophile Information Exchange) was employed at a school in Sweden.

Around the same time that Napier emigrated, his cousin’s husband – fellow paedophile and P.I.E member, Sir Peter Hayman – had returned from a stint as High Commissioner in Canada to take up position as deputy director of MI6.

Then we have the likes of Colet Court which feeds into St Paul's, both owned by the Worshipful Company of Mercers.

Playing host to a number of paedophiles over the years, both faculty and alumni feature in “those you don't ask to babysit.” They include;

Anthony Fuggle, 2012

Keith Perry, 1970's-2011

Greville Janner

Patrick Marshall

Alan Doggett, 1968

They also, incidently, own St Paul's Girls School, built next to the original grounds of St Paul's in 1904. Over the years, various politicians have passed through the halls of the Girls School,

Students such as;

Jane Bonham Carter - Liberal Democrat peer

Harriet Harman - Labour MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and former Cabinet minister, former member of NCCL

Susan Kramer – former Liberal Democrat MP

Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine – member of the British House of Lords

Mavis Tate – Conservative MP and women's rights campaigner

Shirley Williams – former Labour Education Secretary and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party

Eirene White, Baroness White – Labour Minister of State then life peer

As Colet Court is boys only, Bute House Preparatory School, another owned by the Worshipful Company of Mercers, is the main feeder to St Paul's Girls.

The Mercers have interests in a number of other schools;

Coincidently, Theresa May is a Mercer.

North Wales.

Operation Pallial, established in 2012 to re-investigate crimes against children in over a dozen homes across North Wales, along with the Macur Review, to assess if Sir Ronald Waterhouse “did his job adequately” were both severely restricted with their remit alone.

“No Children's Home, connection or lead that goes beyond the geographical boundary of North Wales is to be investigated.” was Pallial's response to me when I tried to highlight the specific characteristics shared (blonde haired, blue eyed, 12-15 yrs old) by each known girl sent from Calderdale to Bryn Alyn Community.

The same response (almost word for word) came back from the Macur Review.

Marton's Camp and Cotsbrook Hall in Shropshire;

34 Inverness Terrace in Bayswater;

Why a former Director of Bryn Alyn Community still owns Bryn Alyn Hall, despite all property supposedly sold off to cover compensation and costs in 2000;

The fact 5 abusers from North Wales were allowed to go off and work at another home in Shropshire;

and in the case of Norman Wainwright, become a Director on the Board of several Childcare Companies including Keys Childcare, part of Care UK PLL, which recently bought the Southern section of the Hesley Hall Limited (Doncaster) homes;

The similar characteristics of the children sent, to Bryn Alyn, from certain areas;

None of these facts are to be investigated by Operation Pallial or considered by the Macur Review.

Shropshire

Milverton Court

Wisteria Lodge

Marton's Camp

Cotsbrook Hall

All were managed by Bryn Alyn Community or former BA staff. All except Marton's Camp have been highlighted as places of abuse.

Castle Hill School saw Ralph Morris stalking the Halls. Yet another P.I.E member who used the network to further his access to children.

Rochdale

In 2010, it was revealed several asian men had been convicted of abuse of a female resident in a Green Corns Ltd solo-occupancy Children's Home.

This raises several questions in itself....

Why are there Solo-Occupancy homes?

Do authorities not see the dangers in that?

Why were several men involved?

Surely it's laid out that female residents need female staff?

Then came the big explosion known as Savile and chums, Cyril Smith, Peter Jaconelli,

Lambeth, Islington

Ted Knight, Labour MP was excluded from the Labour party in 1956, following involvement with the Socialist Labour League but allowed to rejoin in 1970.

In 1978, he became the leader of Lambeth Council, a post he kept until 1986.

Although he retired from political life, he is still active within the Trade union, Unite.

In Islington, his counterpart was Margaret Hodge, wife of NCCL Chairman Henry Hodge.

Most of the following would have happened whilst he was in charge of the Council.

Operation Trawler was an investigation by the Child Protection Team at Lambeth borough in August 1998 in relation to a social worker offending at a care home.

Operation Trawler emanated from an investigation by Merseyside Police.

Detective Inspector Clive Driscoll led the operation until late 1998 – early 1999, exact dates await confirmation; this operation was the precursor of Operation Middleton.

Operation Middleton was a wide-scale pro-active operation investigating a number of allegations of sexual and physical abuse alleged to have taken place at a number of children’s homes in Lambeth between 1975 and 1994.

The operation was led by Detective Superintendent Richard Gargini, in charge of a team of detectives based at the 5 Area Crime Operational Crime Unit, Cavendish Road police station, and took place between November 1998 until June 2003.

Angell Road Children's Home saw Michael John Carroll and Steve Forrest preying on children,

Southvale Home suffered the attentions of Leslie Paul.

Battersea Home, meanwhile, was victim of Abraham Jacob.

Ivy House

Monkton Street

The list goes on....

Lambeth got so bad, a curb was put in place. In December 1986, Lambeth Council stated No contact was to be had by Council employees with the police until it had been authorised by a supervisor.

Abraham Jacob, a known associate of Jack Straw, Ted Knight and Margaret Hodge, had worked at Battersea Children's Home until arrest and conviction in 1974 for indecent assault on a young boy.

By 1986 he was working in an old people's home by day and the focus of Operation Circus by night.

Trawling Piccadilly Circus, train stations and amusement arcades, he targeted young boys and took them to Wimpy bar in Piccadilly and sat them by the window for burgers and drinks as business-men picked which they wanted, paying between £10 and £40 for a young boy.

It was thought he had been running this set-up from before his conviction.

Michael Carroll, a known associate ofJohn Allen (Bryn Alyn Community), started his career in 1960's in Wirral, joining the staff of the children's home he had just left as a resident, and was convicted for crimes at St Edmund's in Bebington, in 1966.

In 1978 he got a job as Social Worker in Lambeth. By 1981, he was in charge of Angell Road Children's Home.

In 1986, he and his wife applied to become foster parents with a view to adoption, at which point his previous conviction was discovered.

The Council were informed and he as placed on a disciplinary charge. The Inquiry that followed, Chaired by David Pope, decided to leave him in charge at the Home. He was finally sacked in 1990after it was discovered he had defrauded the Council by spending £300 of money intended for Angell Road, on alcohol and cigarettes.

In 1991, he bought The Hand Hotel in Chirk, on the Wrexham/Chester border for £725,000.

His name also came up in connection to Alan Langshaw, during a Merseyside investigation.

After pleading Not Guilty to 76 charges, Carroll finally pled guilty to 35 specimen charges under Operation Care in 1997.

The events in Islington represented a systemic failure of the whole social services department, which had had a good reputation until around 1982, when the newly elected Labour council decided to set up a revolutionary new structure of devolved management, with 24 neighbourhood offices. This devolved structure led to a chaotic system in social services, with what were later called “confused lines of accountability”. Record-keeping was spread between the local offices, and this made it very difficult for social workers to keep up with “clients” who moved around the borough, or to follow up allegations of abuse.

There was also experimentation with equal opportunities policies on a grand scale. While the central management on many aspects of services may have been weak, the diktats of the personnel department on equal opportunities had to be obeyed. For example, if social services managers decided that a particular post required five years’ experience in a children’s home, this could be overruled by the equal opportunities policy, which could dictate that a far less qualified person should be taken on because otherwise the selection process was discriminatory. Moreover, managers making an appointment could not insist on a reference from a previous employer and could not challenge the references given on the basis of the status of the referee (in other words, an applicant could get away with references from two friends). Muddled management procedures also meant that it was not always clear who was the appointing officer, and appointments could, therefore, be made by a group of residential home managers, thereby increasing the likelihood of collusion over appointments.

With the normal checks no longer available to those making appointments, Islington became wide open for sexual predators to move in, and the lax procedures were systematically exploited by determined men seeking to use the children for their own ends.

Mersey & Wirral

The investigation started by looking at Greystone Heath.

This quickly grew into something of a much greater scale than Officers imagined.

In total, 5 police investigations worked on uncovering the links

In Liverpool, meanwhile, and in several other authorities, there was a deliberate policy of expunging any mention of unsubstantiated allegations from an employee’s record. Given that paedophiles often have a standard modus operandi, the retention of such allegations is very important: evidence of similar types of allegation, at different times, by victims unknown to each other, would be a powerful pointer to something being amiss. The policy of expunging allegations was, therefore, just another example of how such ways of operating prioritised the rights of council employees above the needs of the children in their care. In the inquiry into the Trotter case, a union representative, recalling the early 1980s, said: “We tried to make it as difficult as possible for an employer to sack.”

West Yorkshire

In 1988, the Director of Calderdale Social Services, Dr Rod Ryall was charged with and convicted of indecent assault against two boys, one of whom was under the care of the local authority.

When he moved to Calderdale, he took over a project to develop a new Children's home within the borough. Skircoat Lodge assessment Centre opened it's doors, in 1978, to children as young as 4 years old. With Malcolm Osric Phillips in place as “Principle”, children were sent to various homes, fostered, sent to other boroughs, or kept at the home for as many years as they still appealed to him or Andrew Shalders, another colleague from Birmingham

For almost three decades, Phillips sent “difficult” children to Secure Units, persistent absconders were sent to remote CHE (Children's Home with Education). Some were moved, in the middle of the night by Social Workers, to homes in Wales, leaving them in a strange town, strange house, with complete strangers, no way of contacting families and no way of reading the street signs if the escaped.

Some were told they could go to foster parents, with view to adoption, but the goal posts were always being moved, and the move being cancelled last minute.

Siblings were separated and the emotions that created were used as a weapon, with promises of being able to move to the same home as their brother or sister being held over a child's head for months at a time yet never occurring.

Children that had special educational needs were generally taught in-house. Some were even withdrawn from schools offering remedial classes and placed into inappropriate schooling, before finally being withdrawn and “Home Tutored” despite there being no qualified teacher or set lesson plan. Children were told to read or colour, whilst the teacher/matron got on with paperwork.

Not much is known about the actual workings of Operation Screen as West Yorkshire Police, in conjunction with the CPS, sealed the files under the old 100 year rule.

Repeated attempts and approaches with fresh evidence have failed to get this decision overturned and the files reinvestigated.

What is known is that the investigation was flawed.

Conducted by WYP, it had neither independence or impartiality;

The obvious links to other ongoing inquiries were not followed up;

Victims were not informed of the investigation despite still having contact with Social Services, who were aware of some having issues regarding their time in Care under Calderdale;

21 of these are still active today and have at least some connection to Thomas O'Carroll, ex P.I.E member.

Holding dual nationality, the Irishman currently lives in Durham.

He has been convicted three times for perverting public morals, possession of child porn.

His second prison term, in 1984, saw the Govenor of HMP Wandsworth allow paedophilic material to be delivered to O'Carroll's cell where he was allowed to read the book and then write a review on it which was published in the next edition of Minor Problems.

MP was a paedophile publication created in the flat in Edinburgh of Ian Campbell Dunn, SMP and P.I.E founder.

Paedophile Information Exchange

P.I.E were helped with funding from the Government through The Albany Trust, established by Antony Grey (aka Antony Edward Garside-Wright) as part of his campaign for homosexual rights. Grey also sat on the committee's for British Association for Counselling, NCCL (Liberty) and Campaign Against Censorship.

The two organisations first became connected when Ian Campbell Dunn, the Scottish minster who first helped create P.I.E, contacted Grey in relation to establishing a Scottish branch of Homosexual Law Reform Society.

Dunn contacted Antony Edward Garside-Wright in London with a view to garnering support from the gay movement.

Grey he had involvement with CHE and established Albany Trust, a charity set up to fund and act as umbrella for dozens of campaign groups surrounding sexual reform.

Tony Smythe, the national director of MIND sat on the board of trustees for Albany Trust, alongside Ambrose Applebe.

Applebe then went on to form part of the ACCESS steering committee alongside Peter Righton, Clare Raynor (agony aunt), Rev Malcolm Johnson (NCCL) and Rev Michael Butler (samaritans).

Grey also had connections with Spartacus, PAL and a variety of other groups.

PIE did not present themselves as child abusers but “child lovers”, keen to “liberate” children from sexual “repression”. Their literature hijacked the language of liberation to persuade gay men and women, feminists and radicals that they had common interests in challenging “the patriarchy”.

It wasn’t until Customs officers intercepted child pornography posted to Righton from Holland, in 1992, that police raided his home and found hundreds of letters between Righton and other paedophiles, revealing he had abused, prostituted and shared numerous boys.

His correspondents included an assistant bishop, artists, aristocrats and public school teachers.

It then emerged that Righton’s lover ran a school for emotionally disturbed children, and Righton was vice-chairman of governors. New Barns School in Gloucestershire, which was atteneded by many children from London care homes, was investigated and closed down on child welfare grounds.

P.I.E was estimated to have over 1000 members at its peak.

They ranged from fairground workers and road sweepers right up to politicians and MoD.

Lord Fulford openly backed them.

International

They forged connections in every walk of life within every Country thought exploitable;

Thailand,

Charles Napier moved here after a conviction in the UK meant he could not work with children here. Nicholas Rabet and Gary Glitter were also drawn to the land known for child prostitution and sex tourism;

Philippines,

Charles Napier again features here, child prostitution and sex tourism;

Canada,

Through child exports in guise of evacuation and Peter Hayman, who went on to head Mi6, and more recently under Operation Spade, the global investigation into Azov Films

Australia,

In 1912, Kingsley Fairbridge and his wife emigrated to South West Australia and opened the Fairbridge Farm School. 1913-1982 saw 3,580 children pass through their hands under the guise of evacuee's and underprivileged children. It also served as a layover point for returning Dutch children evacuated to Indonesia. Such migration schemes are now also recognised as the history of the Stolen Children;

Australia

The exact number of child migrants to Australia is not known, but estimates suggest that, from 1947 to 1967, between 7000 and 10,000 children were sent to Australia. A feature of the scheme was the care of children in residential institutions rather than by foster care or adoption. Most were placed in the care of Barnardo's, the Fairbridge Society, the Church of England and the Christian Brothers. The House of Commons Health Committee concluded that 'children were placed in large, often isolated institutions and were often subjected to harsh, sometimes intentionally brutal, regimes of work and discipline, unmodified by any real nurturing or encouragement. The institutions were inadequately supervised, monitored and inspected'.

In 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, apologised on behalf of the government for the harm done to all those who had been abused in care, including child migrants.

Canada

Barnardo's (Dr Barnardo's)

Barnardo's was involved in migrating 30,000 children and young people to Canada between 1882 and 1939. This agency sent around 2784 children and young people to Australia between 1921 and 1967.

Children's Friends Society

As many as 230 children arrived in Canada through the auspices of the Children's Friends Society.

National Children's Home (NCH - Action for Children) - formerly National Children's Home and Orphanage

Records show that between 1873 - 1931, a total of 3,600 children migrated to Canada from Britain through the National Children's Homes and Orphanages child migration scheme.

Fegan's Child and Family Care - formerly Fegan's Homes

Around 3,166 boys were migrated to Canada between 1884 to 1938.

Quarriers - formerly the Orphan Homes of Scotland and Quarriers Homes

Around 7,000 children were sent to Canada between 1869 and 1939.

South Africa,

In the guise of relief work and education;

Netherlands,

Needed no guise. The seedy underbelly of the dutch sexual depravity was the prime market in the early years. The former Queen Beatrix was a widely known paedophile enabler whilst her husband, Prince Bernhard was a regular at parties thrown by Marc Dutroux and Michel Nihoul. It also saw the emergence of IPCE, International Paedophile Child Emancipation “to promote 'scholarly discussion' with the aim of changing legislation to decriminalise aspects of child abuse.” Thomas O'Carroll was instrumental in the establishment of this group and is still an active member today. 61-year-old O'Carroll, an out of work journalist who once worked alongside David Icke, and 67-year-oldMichael John De Clare Studdert, a retired Anglican minister, were arrested in January 2006 after the Met's Paedophile Unit conducted a series of co-ordinated searches and arrests. Both were known members of P.I.E

Russia,

Jimmy Savile had ties here, as did Chris Denning. It also provided access to the KGB blackmail squad known asZandvoort, of which the notorious paedophile Marc Dutroux was a member, Mi5 double agent Geoffrey Primealso had links with this group.

Belgium,

Provided somewhere for the paedophile “middle men” somewhere to hide when Authorities caught up with them in the Netherlands from UK or USA, seeking extradition. It also provided alternate access to the KGB blackmail squadZandvoort. Marc Dutroux was prominent as was John Stamford, founder of Spartacus who became a P.I.Emember.

Spartacus were known to have “an arrangement” with Elm Guest House.

It also saw the emergence of CRIES. One notable member being Jos Verbeek, the Belgian president of UNICEF who's office was next door in the same building.

In February 1986, Dutroux and his girlfriend Michelle Martin were arrested for abducting and raping five young girls. In April 1989, Dutroux was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in prison. Martin received a sentence of five years. Showing good behaviour in prison, Dutroux was released on parole in April 1992, having served only three years, by Justice Minister Melchior Wathelet. Upon his release the parole board received a letter from Dutroux's own mother to the prison director, in which she stressed concern that he was keeping young girls captive in his house – which was essentially ignored.

Following his release from prison, Dutroux convinced a psychiatrist that he was psychiatrically disabled, resulting in a government pension.

He was again arrested in 1996 and convicted in 2004 after several more girls were kidnapped, filmed whilst being raped, beaten and in some instances killed,

A 17-month investigation by a parliamentary commission into the Dutroux affair produced a report in February 1998, which concluded that while Dutroux did not have accomplices in

high positions in the police and justice systems, as he continued to claim, he profited from corruption, sloppiness and incompetence.

Greece

Was yet another destination of Napier and Vahey. Dr Peter Kedney, the GP/Medical Officer for Bryn Alyn Community was last seen running a strip club in Athens.

The list goes on....

As the members of P.I.E spread out, their contacts grew. New networks began linking in. Some of them operated byJohn Stamford who went on to be involved in not only Spartacus and P.I.E but also Toro Bravo, PAN and CRIES

One example is P.I.E member Roger Lawrence, who fled to Holland in the early 1980s and joined Spartacus, around the same time as ex-P.I.E leader Steven Smith.

Lawrence, used several aliases, and was arrested in his car at Dover in 1987 with notorious Swiss paedophile and sadist Beat Meier. The car was searched, and along with a large collection of child abuse films and magazines, the police found a three year old boy hidden under a blanket. The boy was called Dimitri Thevenin, and had been kidnapped from his parents’ house in Paris. Unbelievably, Roger Lawrence wasn’t charged and was allowed to go free.

Police found that Meier was wanted for sex offences against children in Switzerland, France, Holland and England. “The English charge sheet revealed he had buggered a young boy in the Huddersfield area”. Beat Meier was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court in January 1988 and received just 18 months, the minimum sentence possible.Judge Raymond Dean QC explained that Meier would be deported to Switzerland as soon as possible, police in Zurich had already taken out a warrant for his arrest for alleged offences against twelve boys and one baby.

Beat Meier’s name also came up during the Marc Dutroux case in Belgium, as did the name of Spartacus boss John D. Stamford.

As P.I.E members spread out through Children's Services and promotions were gained, their Local and Political influence increased.

Convictions were overlooked, leaving convicted paedophiles in charge of vulnerable children. Teachers were rehired based on recommendations from Doctors and University Lecturers. These professionals were also members of P.I.E.

Terence Hoskin – wrote reference for Colin Dick, gaining him further access to children.

Roy Shuttleworth – recommended Edward Stanton for job

Rod Ryall – set up new assessment centre for Malcolm Phillips and Andrew Shalders.

Peter Righton – ensured members gained SW accreditation by establishing a second training course, instead of them undertaking the authority-recognised training course. This course was operated, in part, via Open University. Tom O'Carroll was also a lecturer with OU for a time.

As Director of Education at the National Institute for Social Work, Righton had become a prestigious and respected social work professional.

( The National Institute for Social Work – NISW – was a provider of services aimed at achieving excellence in practice and management in social work and social care in the UK and past employees include Sir Peter Barclay – Author with Righton of the Barclay Report – Sir Williiam Utting – Author of the Utting Report – Daphne Statham – Director – Dame Denise Platt – Chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection – Barbara Hearn OBE Panel member on Independent Inquiry 2014 )

Righton on headed NISW paper wrote to the Department of Education claiming he was a counsellor of convicted paedophiles ( in reality they were his close knit PIE friends ) and that he had counselled Napier to the point he was no longer a risk to children and could return to teaching.

He added in his letter to the D of Ed that to be doubly certain he ( Righton ) had sought a second opinion from a well known child psychiatrist who concurred with his expert opinion

The psychiatrist in question was Dr.Morris Fraser, another convicted paedophile and PIE member who wrote a supporting report on Great Ormond St headed note paper

This allowed Napier to embark on a new teaching career abroad employed by the British Council, founded by the UK Government in 1934

He was able ( by his own admission in a number of letters to Righton over many years ) to abuse countless number of boys in Sweden and Egypt over many years in the late 70’s through the 80’s until 1992 when the arrest of Righton and the discovery of these letters led to his ( Napier’s) immediate dismissal

In 1979, a Steering Committee was established to manage and oversee a course designed to provide an alternate qualification to the CQSW and CSS in managing disturbed young children in a residential setting.

The idea was formed by Paul Gautier, a leading psycho-educationalist at the time, following a trip to Canada.

Nick Stacey, the Director of Kent social services, formed the steering committee and funding was received from the Gatsby Trust, part of the Sainsbury Foundation.

They received £60,000 over a three year period.

£15,000 per year of this was spent on the Director salary.

The Steering committee consisted of:

Nick Stacey;

John Rea Price, Islington Director of social services;

Mary Joynson, Barnardo's;

Janet Mattinson, Tavistock Centre;

Godfrey Godfrey-Isaacs, Peper Harow;

Peter Righton, Director of social work education, National Institute of Social Work;

So far, the only people I can find trace of that took the course, have all been convicted paedophiles.

First up is Peter Wanless.

Before his latest role at the NSPCC, Wanless was a “highly respected” civil servant, permanent secretary to cabinet minister Michael Portillo during the 1990s when Portillo was Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and crossing departments with him when Portillo became Secretary of State for Employment. Again – an establishment civil servant investigating his own. A recipe for a cover-up.

More serious, though, are the persistent rumours about Wanless' close friend and confidant Michael Portillo, now like Savile, being allegedly involved in a Westminster sex scandal himself. Rumours circulated in 1994 that Portillo and another Tory Secretary of State, Peter Lilley, had got sexually involved with Britain's first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu.

Unfortunately for the two secretaries of state though, a disgruntled Fashanu supposedly decided to“blow the lid,” threatening to “bring down the government” by leaking evidence of these affairs to the Daily Express. When MI5 allegedly threatened Fashanu, Tory MP Stephen Milligan, a part-time journalist, is said to have weighed in on the footballer's behalf on a mission to get to the bottom of it all and“clean up the Tory party.”

Within days, however, Milligan was found hanged in his London flat, naked, with an orange in his mouth in an apparent suicide, made to look like he was a sexual deviant. Fashanu was swiftly sacked by his football club and got on the first flight to the United States. Several years later Fashanu was also tragically found hanged, this time in a garage in Shoreditch, London.

May’s Britain is recognized up and down the nation and around the world as introducing some of the most brutal policies imaginable, punishing disabled people for the crimes of the bankers, sending innocent British Muslims off to rot in US jails. Coalition Britain is exhibiting all the worst signs of misrule, of a dying empire in denial.

More recently it transpired that PIE were given offices, under the Tories, within the Home Office itself and that PIE also got substantial funding from the Metropolitan police Special Branch (MI5). This obsession, not with striking the root of the Whitehall abusers, but with spinning the stories as far away from the Tory party as possible, characterizes the entire Westminster abuse scandal since the 1980s.

Next we have MoD

Michael Colvin, a well known associate of Laud was on the Defense Select Committee.

his regular network of friends included Neil Hamilton, Ian Greer

Commissioned into the Royal Artillery, he served during the war in East and North Africa and Germany. While on active service in Burma, he was mentioned in despatches.

In 1945 Smith began flying as an air observation pilot and subsequently qualified as an Army and RAF pilot on light aircraft, advanced trainers, four-engined aircraft, gliders, sailplanes and helicopters.

After a spell at the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment, where he tested a wide variety of new designs, in 1950 he moved to the Directorate of Military Aircraft Research and Development at Boscombe Down as a test pilot and technical staff officer.

In 1954, after a year as manager of Army Developmental Flying, he left the Army and joined the company Christian Salvesen as chief pilot and general manager, and was responsible for four Westland Whirlwind helicopters engaged in whale-spotting exercises in Antarctica. The following year he served as the air search and rescue pilot for the Duncan Carse surveying expedition on South Georgia.

Smith then worked for the Bristol Aeroplane Company performing development test flying. During this time he was seconded to the German Air Force and the German Navy where he led training operations for flying instructors which included the development of air rescue operations in the Bavarian Alps.

In 1959 Smith moved to Vickers Armstrong and Rolls-Royce, where he participated in engine development flight tests. In 1962 he was seconded to the Royal Singapore Air Force, helping to establish an accident investigation department. He then became deputy chief test pilot of Westland Helicopters, with which Bristol had merged.

The Ferranti Helicopter Company was formed in 1970 with Smith as its managing director, to offer charter services based at Gatwick airport. Customers on long-term contracts included Wimpey and Rolls-Royce. The helicopters were used to ferry supplies and keepers to lighthouses in the Scottish isles and to make Royal Mail deliveries. Smith piloted Michael Heseltine when he became Minister for Aerospace.

In 1979 Smith became a founding member of Aviation Consultants International . Between 1980 and 1982 he was personal pilot to the racehorse trainer, Vincent O’Brien, and to John Broome, the developer of Alton Towers. He was operations manager of a helicopter company in Tanzania from 1984 to 1986. He later settled in South Africa.

Incidently, both Greer and Laud also had south africa links.

Survivor Support

The one thing survivors were promised in 2012 was support. That support has not been forthcoming.

There are tales of key witnesses being left to make their own way to Sentencing. A key factor in the journey toward acceptance of events and a certain level of Closure.

People, two years after being promised counselling, are still waiting for it to start or are being told to fund it themselves.

The police are very unapproachable, for the most part. Unwilling to push the boundaries of their remit or explore the truth of what they are supposed to investigate.

When asked if she had read the Waterhouse Report, one DC sent out to survivors homes under

Operation Pallial said; “Of course not, have you Seen the Size of it?”

The survivor replied “Yes, I've read it several times.”.

One thing that nobody seems to be taking into account the effect this has on survivor's families. Loved ones are left to pick up the pieces each time a dark anniversary comes around, or a chance remark triggers a memory, or the Police phone to say the CPS are going to write to say, “Sorry, not enough evidence to prosecute.” or worse “Sorry, time limitation...”.

There is no help for those that see the daily self-destruction and can do nothing to stop it.