SOUTHEND RING

Dennis King (right) and Brian Tanner

Child Abuse Ring in Shoeburyness/Southend

Investigative reporter CHARLES THOMSON reported - 

In 1990, Dennis King and Brian Tanner were put on trial for grooming dozens of boys from Southend-on-Sea, then pimping them out to a child abuse network. 

King got four years in jail, Tanner three. Each had already served a year on remand.

The children from Southend had been trafficked to ‘parties’, where they were abused by multiple men, and to east London, where their abuse had been photographed.

Children named a particular police officer as a regular visitor to King’s flat.

More than 10 people claimed to have been threatened or intimidated by Essex police officers. 

Over the next 25 years, many of the boys descended into homelessness, addiction and criminality. Several are now dead from overdoses and suicides. 

In 2018, a victim mentioned a man called Lennie who had been connected with King and Tanner. 

Lennie Smith was a member of  the Dirty Dozen, which had been responsible for the killings of three young boys in the 1980s – Jason Swift, Mark Tildesley and Barry Lewis.

Jason Swift. 

In 1985, 14-year-old Jason Swift was killed by a child-abuse gang. Jason is believed to have lived in Islington council's Conewood Street children's home. (Jersey child abuse link to Islington, London). 

Sidney Cooke, Leslie Bailey, Robert Oliver, and Lennie Smith, were imprisoned in 1989 for the manslaughter of Jason Swift. Cooke and his gang had sexually tortured and prostituted a number of boys. 

The gang is believed to have killed at least nine children.[2] Cooke was sentenced to 19 years in prison. In 1998, Cooke was let out of prison eight years early. 

There have been allegations that very powerful people have been involved in a child-abuse ring connected to Islington children's homes.

( Jersey child abuse link to Islington, London)

Eileen Fairweather, in the Mail on Sunday, has linked Haringey to Islington and Jersey ('I have known about Jersey paedophiles for 15 years,' says award-winning journalist.) 

Baby P. from Labour-run Haringey in London, was tortured to death by a satanist. 

On 16 November 2008, the Mail on Sunday tells us How a close male relative of Baby P is linked to a big paedophile ring. 

This child-abuse ring operated in Labour-run Islington, the part of London where Tony Blair once lived. 

Reportedly, the ring supplied boys to top people. 

(This child abuse ring, reportedly, has links to the child abuse in Jersey, which in turn, reportedly, has links to the Dutroux affair and the security services)