COVER-UP OF BLAIR MINISTER CHILD ABUSE?
"John would sometimes come down and select one of the boys to go up to the flat." mirror
Reportedly, one of Tony Blair's government ministers sexually abused children at a children's care home in Brixton in London in the 1980's.
Angell Road children's home, in Brixton, in Lambeth
The Angell Road children's home in Brixton in Lambeth was run by the convicted child abuser Michael John Carroll.
Convicted paedophile: Michael Carroll ran the Angell Road home .
Clive Driscoll
Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll was on the trail of certain politicians involved in child sexual abuse.
He was removed from the case.
Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects
BRIXTON is in Lambeth
Clive Driscoll began his investigation of child sex abuse in the London borough of Lambeth in 1998.
Clive Driscoll "suddenly found himself booted off the case and put on 'a disciplinary' after revealing politicians were among the suspects."
Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects
Lambeth
Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll said: "I was unhappy with the interference of some senior officers who did not appear to have a logical connection to my investigation into child sex abuse in Lambeth.
"There were allegations made by several people that named politicians had been involved but I never had a chance to investigate them because I was moved before I could do so."
Lambeth Palace.
Clive Driscoll was asked if a file naming politicians as suspects was lost.
Clive Driscoll says: "I handed the file to an officer and I have no knowledge where it went after that."
Anna Tapsell
Former Labour councillor Anna Tapsell says she was visited by a police chief to 'warn her off'' after she raised concerns that police would not properly investigate pedophile rings in children's care homes.
Anna Tapsell, a chairwoman of Lambeth’s social services committee, has highlighted sexual abuse of children in Lambeth's care for more than twenty years.
Lambeth - home to the MI6 HQ and various gay clubs.
Anna Tapsell says: "When I learned that Clive (Driscoll) was being removed, not only from the case but also from Lambeth, I realised that the Met (London Police) were caving in to political pressure that was far more powerful than Lambeth Council.
"I was aware of allegations about an MP and the Met's failure to act on those allegations and its apparent desire to silence those who called for them to be investigated fully was deeply shocking to me.
"Council employees who tried to expose staff they suspected of sexual abuse were sidelined and ignored."
Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects
Former kids' home
Clive Driscoll had been investigating child sex abuse at Brixton’s Angell Road children’s home and South Vale youth assessment centre in West Norwood
Sir Jimmy Savile, 'pedophile ring organiser', in West Norwood.
After Clive Driscoll's removal, Anna Tapsell told how she raised fears about the depth of the investigation during a meeting of the Community Police Consultative Group.
She says that a high-ranking officer later arrived at her home.
AnnaTapsell says: "I doubt whether I was the only person to be visited by a senior police officer in an attempt to warn me off.
"I had cast doubt on the Met’s inclination to get to the bottom of the paedophile activity within Lambeth’s care system...
"I have found the minutes of that meeting in the archives ofLambeth’s Community Police Consultative Group but no mention is made of the high-ranking officer’s contribution and the tape recording is also missing."
The police did trace 200 victims between 1998 to 2003.
There were only three convictions.
A total of 19 suspects were never identified.
Convicted paedophile: Michael Carroll ran the Angell Road home .
Michael John Carroll, the former boss of the Angell Road home, was arrested in 1998.
Anna Tapsell had spent more than 10 years highlighting his case.
Lambeth bosses had let him run children's homes until 1991 despite knowing in 1986 that he was a convicted paedophile.
In 1994, Tapsell told a judge that Carroll was 'protected' by Lambeth social services bosses along with paedophile Les Paul who worked in South Vale.
According to Anna Tapsell: "I have no doubt Angell Road may have been used for organised child abuse which involved adults other than staff.
"This view is reinforced by the strong investment that officers and politicians have in blocking any effective investigation.”
Clare Whelan, a Lambeth Tory councillor since 1990, claims she was repeatedly ignored by police when she tried to highlight the Carroll case.
Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects
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One MP wore only underpants and a dog's collar around his neck
Kate Middleton's friend: How I sneaked a Labour MP in a ....
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART SIX
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART FIVE
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART FOUR
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART THREE
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART TWO
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART ONE
Convicted paedophile: Michael Carroll ran the Angell Road home .
Two whistleblowers are saying that there was a cover-up
Blair (centre) with Brown and Mandelson.
In 1998, after the government minister became implicated in the child abuse ring investigation, the detective in charge, Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll, was removed from the case and disciplined.
The investigation of the minister was dropped.
Tony Blair, campaigning with Ron Davies
Former Lambeth council child protection chief Dr Nigel Goldie says: 'There were a lot of very senior people trying to put a lid on it. There was something very unfortunate about the way the whole thing was dealt with.'
The Mirror says it has seen a Lambeth council memo that shows there was an intention to brief then Health Secretary, Frank Dobson, about the police investigation.
Dobson says he does not remember being briefed.
A numer of children's care homes throughout the UK are believed to have been run as child brothels for the elite and are believed to have been protected by the security services.
The Mirror says it has seen a Lambeth council memo that shows there was an intention to brief then Health Secretary, Frank Dobson, about the police investigation.
Dobson says he does not remember being briefed.
A numer of children's care homes throughout the UK are believed to have been run as child brothels for the elite and are believed to have been protected by the security services.
Clive Driscoll
He was removed from the case.
Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects
BRIXTON is in Lambeth
Clive Driscoll began his investigation of child sex abuse in the London borough of Lambeth in 1998.
Clive Driscoll "suddenly found himself booted off the case and put on 'a disciplinary' after revealing politicians were among the suspects."
Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects
Lambeth
Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll said: "I was unhappy with the interference of some senior officers who did not appear to have a logical connection to my investigation into child sex abuse in Lambeth.
"There were allegations made by several people that named politicians had been involved but I never had a chance to investigate them because I was moved before I could do so."
Lambeth Palace.
Clive Driscoll was asked if a file naming politicians as suspects was lost.
Clive Driscoll says: "I handed the file to an officer and I have no knowledge where it went after that."
Anna Tapsell
Former Labour councillor Anna Tapsell says she was visited by a police chief to 'warn her off'' after she raised concerns that police would not properly investigate pedophile rings in children's care homes.
Anna Tapsell, a chairwoman of Lambeth’s social services committee, has highlighted sexual abuse of children in Lambeth's care for more than twenty years.
Lambeth - home to the MI6 HQ and various gay clubs.
Anna Tapsell says: "When I learned that Clive (Driscoll) was being removed, not only from the case but also from Lambeth, I realised that the Met (London Police) were caving in to political pressure that was far more powerful than Lambeth Council.
"I was aware of allegations about an MP and the Met's failure to act on those allegations and its apparent desire to silence those who called for them to be investigated fully was deeply shocking to me.
"Council employees who tried to expose staff they suspected of sexual abuse were sidelined and ignored."
Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects
Former kids' home
Clive Driscoll had been investigating child sex abuse at Brixton’s Angell Road children’s home and South Vale youth assessment centre in West Norwood
Sir Jimmy Savile, 'pedophile ring organiser', in West Norwood.
After Clive Driscoll's removal, Anna Tapsell told how she raised fears about the depth of the investigation during a meeting of the Community Police Consultative Group.
She says that a high-ranking officer later arrived at her home.
"I had cast doubt on the Met’s inclination to get to the bottom of the paedophile activity within Lambeth’s care system...
"I have found the minutes of that meeting in the archives ofLambeth’s Community Police Consultative Group but no mention is made of the high-ranking officer’s contribution and the tape recording is also missing."
The police did trace 200 victims between 1998 to 2003.
There were only three convictions.
A total of 19 suspects were never identified.
Convicted paedophile: Michael Carroll ran the Angell Road home .
Michael John Carroll, the former boss of the Angell Road home, was arrested in 1998.
Anna Tapsell had spent more than 10 years highlighting his case.
Lambeth bosses had let him run children's homes until 1991 despite knowing in 1986 that he was a convicted paedophile.
In 1994, Tapsell told a judge that Carroll was 'protected' by Lambeth social services bosses along with paedophile Les Paul who worked in South Vale.
According to Anna Tapsell: "I have no doubt Angell Road may have been used for organised child abuse which involved adults other than staff.
"This view is reinforced by the strong investment that officers and politicians have in blocking any effective investigation.”
Clare Whelan, a Lambeth Tory councillor since 1990, claims she was repeatedly ignored by police when she tried to highlight the Carroll case.
Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects
One MP wore only underpants and a dog's collar around his neck
Kate Middleton's friend: How I sneaked a Labour MP in a ....
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART SIX
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART FIVE
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART FOUR
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART THREE
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART TWO
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART ONE
Labels: Angell Road, Anna Tapsell, Blair, Brixton, Child Abuse, Clive Driscoll, Lambeth, Michael John carroll, pedophile rings
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http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/former_mayor_of_london_bbc_broadcaster_and_ba_pilot_offer_career_advice_to_schoolchildren_in_kilburn_1_2241476
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Brent & Kilburn Times - June 18, 2013
Former Mayor of London, BBC broadcaster and BA pilot offer career advice to schoolchildren in Kilburn
Special guests visited Christ Church CofE Primary School
Former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone at a careers talk at Christchurch School
xxxxxxxx xxxxx (left) and xxxxx xxxxxx with B.A. pilot Simon Wood
He's even creepier out of focus.
Special guests including an airline pilot, fire fighter and a former Mayor of London were on hand in Kilburn to offer career tips to school pupils.
The pupils, all in their final year of Christ Church CofE Primary School in Clarence Road, were visited by a team of guests who have all enjoyed successful and varied careers.
Among the guests to the school, in Clarence Road, included Gill Wood, a BBC broadcaster, Simon Wood, a pilot with British Airways and former Mayor of London and Cricklewood resident Ken Livingston.
The pupils were given a chance to move between desks and chat to the guests about their chosen careers.
The visit was arranged as all the pupils prepare to leave the school and move onto secondary education.
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http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/ba_pilot_simon_wood_accused_of_abusing_children_visited_brent_school_twice_shortly_before_he_was_charged_1_2368524
Brent & Kilburn Times - September 5, 2013
BA pilot Simon Wood accused of abusing children visited Brent school twice shortly before he was charged
A British Airways pilot who was found dead after he was accused of child abuse offences met pupils during two visits to a school in Brent shortly before he was charged.
First Officer Simon Wood, 54, paid his first trip to Christ Church CofE Primary School in Clarence Road, Kilburn, in March to introduce them to the Kidzone Kenya project he was involved with.
He later made a second visit in June where he gave a talk to year seven pupils about his career.
The following month Wood from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, is claimed to have used his position to target scores of children in African schools and orphanages and is alleged to have molested youngsters during stopovers in Kenya after claiming he was carrying out charity work for the airline.
He has not been accused of any wrong doing during his visit to the school which also included talks by Gill Wood and former Mayor of London and Cricklewood resident Ken Livingston.
Wood was due to appear at Southwark Crown Court last Friday charged with one count of indecent assault of a girl under 16, two counts of making indecent photographs of a child and one count of possessing indecent images of a child, Scotland Yard said.
He was found dead on August 18 after being struck by a train.
A spokesman for the school said: “Simon Wood was introduced to the school as a representative from the charity Kidzone Kenya. He visited the school twice - in March this year to introduce the Kidzone Kenya project and in June and at no time was he left alone with any of our children or unsupervised when he visited on either occasion. We are confident that at no time was the safety of our children compromised.
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http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=255390#6
Simon Wood Thread
https://www.google.com/search?q=ken+livingstone+simon+wood&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=UOtdU7KJB8LisASz_IDABg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1600&bih=680#imgdii=_
Second Google pic listed is Livingstone at the same school with Simon Wood taken from the now dead Brent Times news article link.
https://www.facebook.com/BrentandKilburnTimes/posts/264828443659398?stream_ref=5
Brent Kilburn Times shared a link.
June 18, 2013
Former Mayor of London, BBC broadcaster and BA pilot offer career advice to schoolchildren in Kilburn
Special guests visited Christ Church CofE Primary School
KILBURNTIMES.CO.UK
I was on the wrong track with previous comments I sent about a possible Lambeth man. He wasn't a minister for Blair.
I can't think straight. This guy might know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson PC (born 21 October 1953) is a British Labour Party politician and President of the international think tank Policy Network. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, and served in a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was also the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008.
Mandelson was one of a group of people behind the rebranding of the Labour Party as "New Labour" and its subsequent landslide victory in the 1997 election.[1] He resigned twice from the Cabinet before leaving Parliament to take up an appointment as a European Commissioner. He later rejoined the Cabinet for a third time, being made a life peer in the House of Lords. Today he is the President of Policy Network, an international policy think tank, and has also been the High Steward of Hull since 2013.
Peter Mandelson was born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, Middlesex on 21 October 1953, the son of Mary Joyce (née Morrison) and George Norman Mandelson.[6] His father's family was Jewish, and his father was the advertising manager at The Jewish Chronicle. On his mother's side, he is the grandson of Margaret (Kent) and Herbert Morrison, the London County Council leader and Labour cabinet minister. He was educated at Hendon County Grammar School from 1965–72. In 1966 he appeared on stage with the local amateur theatre group, the Hampstead Garden Suburb Dramatic Society as the eponymous lead in The Winslow Boy.
He read philosophy, politics and economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford (1973–1976) and in the late 1970s became chair of the British Youth Council. As chair of the BYC, he was a delegate in 1978 to the Soviet-organised World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana, Cuba, where with several future Labour cabinet colleagues, he with Hilary Barnard, future IUSY President, and Trevor Phillips successfully frustrated agreement on a distorted Soviet text on youth in the capitalist countries.
In his teenage years, he was also a member of the Young Communist League. but was a member of the Oxford University Labour Club delegation to the December 1975 NOLS Conference when the entryist Trotskyist Militant tendency lost control of NOLS. He was elected to Lambeth Borough Council in September 1979, but retired in 1982, disillusioned with the state of Labour politics.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1364001/Peter-Mandelson-silent-contact-Prince-Andrew-friend-Jeffrey-Epstein.html
Daily Mail - 7 March 2011
Peter Mandelson stays silent over his contact with Prince Andrew's disgraced financier friend
Lord Mandelson yesterday maintained his silence over the extent of his contact with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The former Business Secretary did not respond to questions about why the convicted paedophile’s ‘little black book’ featured ten entries for him and his partner Reinaldo da Silva.
The online contacts book had 16 numbers for Prince Andrew and home numbers for politicians including Lord Heseltine and former Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward. There were also details of girls working at massage parlours.
Epstein had assembled a powerful network of contacts encompassing the worlds of politics, business, royalty and celebrity and even Bill Clinton.
The inclusion of Lord Mandelson and an office address for Tony Blair has raised questions about the extent of his relationship with the Labour government.
But last night – some 48 hours after the link between Epstein and Lord Mandelson emerged – the former Labour spin doctor was still refusing to comment about his dealings with the disgraced billionaire.
Virginia Roberts, the teenage masseuse allegedly recruited as a ‘sex slave’ for Epstein, said she remembered seeing Lord Mandelson at the financier’s townhouse in New York.
She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I never heard of Jeffrey knowing Tony Blair, but he did know Peter Mandelson.
‘I remember him being at the house in New York and I was introduced to him at a dinner party. He and Jeffrey talked business together. I assumed they were in business together. I was never asked to give him [Mandelson] a massage.’
The Duke of York stayed at the townhouse, just off Central Park, for four days before Christmas.
He and Lord Mandelson have worked together in the past because of the duke’s role as a special representative for international trade and investment, part of the peer’s then portfolio as business secretary. The former MP was also an EU commissioner for Trade.
The two men have a close mutual friend, the Kazakh socialite and businesswoman Goga Ashkenazi, and both attended her 30th birthday party in February last year.Lord Mandelson was also hired to speak at two events organised by a stock company owned by the Kazakh government and effectively run by the President’s son-in-law, Timur Kulibayev.
Mr Kulibayev bought Prince Andrew’s former marital home, Sunninghill, three years ago for £15million – £3million above the asking price.
The entries in Epstein’s contacts book for Lord Mandelson included direct lines, home numbers, an email address and a fax and mobile number for Mr da Silva. Many are now out of date.That the entry for Mr Blair was only an office address suggests the two men had few, if any, dealings.
Lord Heseltine said last night that he did not remember ever meeting Epstein or having any contact with him. Mr Woodward was unavailable for comment.
A printout of Epstein’s online contacts book was subpoenaed for use in a civil case against him. It includes numbers for massage businesses in Britain, France, the Virgin Islands and the U.S.
http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2012/10/paedo-politicians-not-to-forget.html
Tap Blog - Friday, October 26, 2012
Paedo politicians not to forget. Peter Mandelson.
Good traffic numbers on this post. No comments, which is odd. And not in the top ten. also odd. Gordon Logan writes -
Let us not forget that Harriet Harman is an open supporter of paedophile pornography. Her friend Margaret Hodge Oppenheimer tried to cover up a paedophile scandal in Islington Council children's homes in the eighties. Hidge Oppenheimer went on to enter parliament and propose the pervert Tony Blair as leader immediately after the poisoning of John Smith.
She then went on the become the UK's first Minister for Children in 2003, where she facilitated the transfer of children from their natural parents to the state paedophile supply system. Blair issued a D-notice to protect Peter Mandelson, when the latter was caught purchasing paedophile pornography in 2002 by Operation Ore. All the above supporters of paedophilia. All the above supporters of paedophilia are jews with the so-called right of 'return' to Israel, including Blair, whose mother's name was Lipsett.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2012/10/child-abuse-linked-to-governments.html
http://www.whale.to/c/peter_mandelson.html
[2012 Oct] THE PAEDOPHILE RING THAT ENCIRCLES BRITISH POLITICS BY S.C. (NAME PROTECTED) AND GIOVANNI DI STEFANO Although Labour Supremo Peter Mandelsons’ alleged role in the kidnapping of young girls and boys for the “pleasuring” of the European Union’s elite commissioners in Brussels was the subject of intense speculation long before the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, I can now bring to a close all speculation as to the name of Tony Blair’s most “highly placed and senior politician” who fell not only under the scrutiny of Scotland Yard for crimes against children, but was also identified by the FBI as an active member of the paedophile ring run by Thomas Hamilton.
Paedo politicians not to forget. Mandelson. Blair issued a D-notice to protect Peter Mandelson, when the latter was caught purchasing paedophile pornography in 2002 by Operation Ore.
[2012 June] "Sex Cult" Runs UK Government, says MI-6 Victim
[2011 Sept] The Wheel of Fortune By T Stokes Thus Peter Mandelson’s French Hospital records are alleged to contain details of injuries caused by small furry animals used in homosexual sex acts; according to Cherie Blair he is one of the most profoundly corrupt figures in politics and coming from Tony Blair’s wife that is saying something.
Tony Blair as 'Miranda ' HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER by T. Stokes Peter Mandelson and Cherie Blair hated each other, Mandelson as top Rothschild apparatchik for Britian was rumoured to boss and bully Blair, but after a row with the French the newspapers were tipped off anonymously that Frederic Mitterrand was paying young boys for sex, but a small security firm phone tapping for a newspaper, claimed the tip came from Mandelsons people. The NSA whistleblower David Murphy-Fawkes has said they listened in to all Tony Blairs calls, as the US senate saw him as a lightweight 'Pinocchio' figure. In march 2003 Peter Mandelson officially endorsed Leo Gillan as his political candidate, who then lost out to a man in a monkey suit, 'hangus' the monkey was offering a free banana to schoolchildren, 'hangus' was an in joke on the campaign to hang war criminals such as Saddam Hussein and Tony Blair.
Mandelson while business minister showed his true metal while holidaying on Deripaskas yacht, now Deripaska is banned under organized crime regs in the USA, but according to the Daily Mail 23rd May 2010, Nat Rothschild, Deripaska and Mandelson shook hands on a £500 million aluminum deal that cost many Britons their jobs, much of this is said to be in chemtrail drops. These 3 were joked about in the MI5 canteen as 'the axis of evil' and 'the 3 jewboys' and when Mandelson was admitted into a French hospital recently with prostate problems, the French doctors report told of felching injuries, felching is the gay sport where a cardboard tube is pushed into the rectum and a small furry animal slid down inside, our Peter apparently was scratched internally rather badly.
Peter Mandelson is controlling director of the NSPCC, and when Margaret Hodge ( Oppenheimer) was children’s minister she lived next door to Tony Blair, they also knew childline funders Sarah Caplin and Esther Rantzen, who are connected to TV mogul Michael Grade.
[2011] Insider Exposes Famous Satanists
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/03/13/11614.shtml
KavKaz Center - 13 March 2010
SCANDAL. British PM Gordon Brown accused of being a pedophile
According to the testimony of a British journalist, Mike James, who now lives in Germany, the present British prime minister, Gordon Brown, is an arrant old pedophile.
The journalist says that, as a pedophile, Brown is known to the police for a long time, but the previous prime minister, Tony Blair, ordered to cover up the scandal due to the British aggression against Iraq on the basis of false information about Saddam possessing weapons of mass destruction.
According to the testimony of the British journalist, Brown is member of a ring of senior British pedophiles, consisting of general prosecutor Goldsmitdt, a former chieftain of the NATO lord Robertson and lord Mandelson. All of them are major members of masonic lodges.
The British journalist said that a group of senior pedophiles organized a massacre of children in Dunblane Primary School in Scotland on 13 (!) March 1996, killing 16 small children and a teacher. The children were killed because they knew too much about the crimes committed by British pedophile politicians .
The murder was committed by a freemason, Thomas Hamilton. But the gun with explosive bullets, as the investigation established, had been given to him by lord Cullen (Cullen on the photo with Hamilton), a member of the Labor "Scottish mafia", which includes Gordon Brown, lord Robertson, Tony Blair and John Reid.
Lord Mandelson is constantly accused in Europe in the kidnapping young girls and boys for European Union's elite pedophile commissioners in Brussels.
http://gnosticliberationfront.com/revealed.htm
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/lord-mandelson-the-nspcc-and-the-edlington-cover-up/
Lord Mandelson, the NSPCC and the Edlington cover-up
Sounds like yet another damn good readkb ti sever ties with the EU to me
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/lambeth-launches-abuse-inquiry-1185849.html
Independent - 19 November 1998
Lambeth launches abuse inquiry
AN URGENT inquiry is being launched today to examine alarming and wide-ranging allegations of child abuse in care homes in south London. The inquiry is being carried out by Lambeth Borough Council and will focus at first on the revelation that a young boy was raped at one of the borough's care homes by a residential worker who later died of an Aids-related illness.
The child, who cannot be identified, was six years old at the time of the attack, which took place 11 years ago at the Angell Road Children's Home in Brixton.
The home has since closed down as part of Lambeth's drive to replace such establishments with foster parents, private and voluntary care homes.
Lambeth Council admitted yesterday that it expected many more incidents of abuse relating to its homes to come to light during the inquiry, which could take up to two years to complete.
"It is impossible to say how many children were involved but it could be an awful lot," said a spokeswoman. She said people would only know the true extent of the damage done when the inquiry reported its findings. In a statement the council added that it was "absolutely determined to uncover any abuse that took place in the past".
The leader of the inquiry will be announced today and the early part of the proceedings will focus on the abuse at the Angell Road home. The victim is now 17 and has made statements to the police. His mother is reported as saying he has refused to take a blood test to establish whether he has contracted the Aids virus. She could not be contacted yesterday.
The abuser has been named as Steve Forrest, a residential social worker who died in 1992 after contracting HIV. He certainly had contact with many other children and the council fears he may have abused them too.
A former child protection social worker in Lambeth who remembered the Angell Road home spoke to The Independent yesterday and described conditions there and in other homes now closed.
"They were horrifying places. You never knew who was doing the abuse but there was always someone involved. For some kids once they got to the children's home they were in trouble," he said.
"I understand Lambeth have done a lot recently to improve matters by getting rid of these homes."
Lambeth closed all its homes in 1994. If the Lambeth inquiry does reveal a substantial history of abuse in the borough's care homes, it will be another area to shade in on the darkening map of child abuse in the UK.
Officer Clive Driscoll's story is very similar to that of Police Services Officer Perry Dunlop, whose career was ruined after he undertook to seriously investigate widespread child abuse allegations implicating prominent personages in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Much information about his shocking story can be found on the Internet.
I once briefly met Mandelson my impression was one of a devious feline character.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xYFKAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT270&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rhFgU6eRDsK-sQSU9oGoCg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
Tony Blair: Prime Minister
By John Rentoul
[P269-270]
Blair decided to go to war instead. Using the authority conferred on him by mid-term elevation, he could smash an idol the party cared about and hence persuade voters that it had really changed. 'It is time we gave the party some electric-shock treatment,' he declared at a secret summit of the inner modernising clique at Chewton Glen Hotel in Hampshire on 9 September 1994. It was attended by just eight people: Blair, Brown, Campbell, Mandelson and Philip Gould were the core; Colin Fisher, a long-term Labour adviser who ran a management consultancy, paid for the luxury awayday; and two more junior figures were also present, Roger Liddle and Michael Wills. Liddle was a close friend of Mandelson's from 1979 when they were both served as councillors on 'red' Lambeth council, Liddle defecting to the SDP while Mandelson stayed with the unfashionable Labour right. He was still a member of the Liberal Democrat executive, but had been for some time a New Labour 'sleeper' and would return to the Labour fold the following year. Public knowledge of his proximity to the heart of the Blair leadership would have had an incendiary effect on the Labour Party. Wills knew Mandelson well from his time as a producer at London Weekend Television, but was closer to Brown, who was lobbying Blair - unsuccessfully - for him to be made Deputy General Secretary of the party.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=DmEKAQAAMAAJ&q=mandelson+lambeth&dq=mandelson+lambeth&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6hRgU834JMensASU6IDoDQ&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBg
Fighting talk: the biography of John Prescott
Pocket Books, Oct 6, 1997
[Page 213]
Prescott may have had problems with his syntax, but he did have a wider vision for transport. It was his political home. His first front-bench post had been in transport, as merchant shipping spokesman in 1972—74; when Labour were next in opposition in 1979, he was the deputy transport spokesman to Albert Booth. Their researcher at the time was Peter Benjamin Mandelson, a bright former whizz-kid from the TUC's economic department who was also at the time the chairman of the British Youth Council and a Lambeth Labour councillor. Mandelson, educated at Hendon Grammar and St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he gained a PPE honours degree, was the grandson on his mother's side of Herbert Morrison; in 1982, he left politics for the wider experience of television, joining LWT as a producer for the Weekend World programme. It was fronted by Brian Walden, the former Labour MP, and in those days a fearsomely incisive interviewer, but Mandelson was responsible for the political knife-work behind the scenes until returning to work for the party as its communications director in 1985 with a reference from Prescott. Prescott credits himself with giving Mandelson 'a reference for his first job in this spin-doctor world . . . and there are times when I have wondered about that, but I can't doubt his skills.'
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http://books.google.com/books?id=ZiyIAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Economic+Dept+TUC+1977-78;+Chrmn+British+Youth%22&dq=%22Economic+Dept+TUC+1977-78;+Chrmn+British+Youth%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TxpgU4KDIvSssASnmICwDw&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ
Dod's parliamentary companion - Issue 175
Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1992
[Page 566]
MANDELSON, Peter Benjamin. (Hartlepool) Lab. majority 8,782
S. of late George Mandelson, and of Hon. Mary Joyce Morrison, d. of late Baron Morrison of Lambeth. B. Oct. 21, 1953; ed. Hendon Grammar and St Catherine's College, Oxford (Hons. degree PPE). Economic Dept TUC 1977-78; Chrmn British Youth Council 1978-80; Councillor, London Borough of Lambeth 1979-82; producer LWT 1982 85; Director of Campaigns and Communications. Labour Party 1985 90; Industrial consultant, SRU Group 1990-92. Secretary, PLP Treasury Affairs Cttee; Secretary, All-Party Music Group. Publications: Youth Employment: causes and cures, 1977; Broadcasting and Youth, 1980. Recreations: Walking and the countryside, swimming. Member for Hartlepool since April 9, 1992.
Address, Peter Mandelson Esq., MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A OAA (071-219 3000); 30 Hutton Avenue, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS26 9PN.
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http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/British_Youth_Council
British Youth Council
According to Robin Ramsay:
by the end of his final year at Oxford University, in 1976, Mandelson had become Chair of British Youth Council. The British Youth Council began as the British section of the World Assembly of Youth, which was set up and financed by MI6 and then taken over by the CIA in the 1950s, created to combat the Soviet Union's youth fronts. By Mandelson's time in the mid1970s under a Labour government be it noted the British Youth Council was said to be financed by the Foreign Office, though that may be a euphemism for MI6, the British secret intelligence service. In 1977 Mandelson and one Charles Clarke, another familiar name, then head of the British National Union of Students, put together a delegation from the UK to attend the 1978 World Festival of Youth. The World Festival of Youth meetings were great cold war jamborees at which the opposing blocs put forward propaganda at the Third World. Charles Clarke, head of the NUS in 1977, and chosen to fly the flag for Britain in Cuba, became Neil Kinnock's chief gatekeeper. Peter Mandelson, we were told in 1995 by Donald McIntyre in the Independent, is 'a pillar of the two bluechip foreign affairs thinktanks, Ditchley Park and Chatham House'.
Funding
The British Youth council was funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1994 its grant was stopped and in 1999 the BYC wrote to the FCO to reinstate it:
A significant area of BYC's work since its creation in 1948 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has been representing the UK internationally on youth issues and building relations with other national youth councils in the spirit of co-operation and understanding. To undertake this huge and increasingly important area of work BYC received a small annual grant from the FCO. Unfortunately the previous Government withdrew our international funding in 1994, which decimated our ability to participate in international youth fora, exchanges, training and lobbying. This not only wiped out BYC's international expertise as the first youth led national youth council, but also severely damaged the UK's reputation internationally by preventing the UK from being represented at European, Commonwealth and United Nations Youth Assemblies. We are very keen to turn this situation around and are looking to the Foreign Office to reinstate funding for our international work. Our previous grant was £42,000 per year, and enabled us to achieve enormous results. I am aware of the enormous assistance you have given the British Youth Council in the past, and would be very grateful if you felt able to assist us in this matter. Perhaps you could advise on how we could best go about securing Foreign Office support?[
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http://books.google.com/books?id=oLwhAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Mandelson+'s+fellow-scouter,+who+asked+not+to+be+identified%22&dq=%22Mandelson+'s+fellow-scouter,+who+asked+not+to+be+identified%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=33hgU8H7BIjNsQSdhYGwDw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
http://books.google.com/books?id=oLwhAQAAIAAJ&q=%22discuss+the+sexual+side+of+his+life.+The+first+real+political%22&dq=%22discuss+the+sexual+side+of+his+life.+The+first+real+political%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OXlgU5elL_DhsASIlYCIBw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
Mandy: the unauthorised biography of Peter Mandelson
Simon & Schuster, 1999
a gawky figure in shorts, long woolly socks and a woggle. He went on camps, and later recalled that he was always sad when the week under canvas came to an end. Always one to be out in front, he graduated to be leader of his 'six' in leafy Hampstead Garden Suburb.
But there was something nasty going on in his cub scout troop. Many of the boys, then aged around 10, were subject to sexual abuse by a scoutmaster, who was twice their age. One fellow cub scout, who knew Mandelson from the age of 5, said the scoutmaster used to sit them on his knee while he masturbated. The boys talked about it among themselves, and one finally plucked up the courage to tell his parents. They in turn informed other parents. These were different, less abuse-conscious days. The parents decided not to call in the police, but to report the abusive group leader to the scouting authorities. They investigated, and removed the abuser; there was no prosecution.
Mandelson 's fellow-scouter, who asked not to be identified, was abused over a period of months in this way. He believes that Mandelson was drawn into the web of abuse. 'We were both victims of the same perpetrator of sexual abuse,' he told me. 'It happened to me, and it happened to him.'2 However, Mandelson himself has never made any reference to such an experience, which is not surprising, given his blanket refusal to discuss the sexual side of his life.
The first real political scandal in which Mandelson was involved, played out in the mid 1970s, still reverberates today. Mandy joined the Young Communist League - and possibly the parent Communist Party of Great Britain - in his late teens, and took part in a Soviet-dominated World Festival of Youth in Havana, Cuba, in 1978. His role has been variously...
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The Driscoll investigation was halted in 1998. That means the minister must be in Blair's first cabinet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_ministry#May_1997_to_June_2001
Peter Mandelson joined in 1998.
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