VIP Paedophile Ring: A Serial Liar

THE stepbrother of VIP paedophile accuser “Nick” yesterday described his allegations as “bizarre” and “absolute nonsense”.

The man, in his 50s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, rubbished all of Nick’s claims against powerful public figures.

He slammed allegations that his Army officer dad, Nick’s stepfather, was part of an elite child abuse ring that allegedly included late Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath.

He said: “The closest he ever got to Edward Heath was seeing him on the telly.”

Nick has claimed he was regularly taken from the family home in Wiltshire to be abused at weekend sex parties in London.

But his stepbrother says they only went to London once — and that was a family outing to a museum...

The Met’s crumbling Operation Midland has investigated claims of child abuse against VIPs including Heath, the late Home Secretary Leon Brittan, war hero Lord Bramall and former Tory MP Harvey Proctor.

Police found no case to answer against Mr Brittan but did not tell him before he died last January,

The case against Lord Bramall, 92, was dropped after police found not a shred of evidence. Mr Proctor, 69, is still waiting to hear back.

All the allegations stem from Nick, a former NHS middle-manager in his 40s who lost his job and wife shortly before going to cops in 2014.

The stepbrother said: “I think he has jumped on the historic sexual abuse bandwagon, maybe hoping to make some money." ...

Friday's Sun.

Ho hum...

Tom Watson: The Hardest Word

Yeah, right...

Great quotes of our time; 'I certainly did not want to take part in a baseless witch hunt...'

And I am Marie of Romania.

Tom Watson: A Message From His Number One Supporter

Of course, you don't have to be a tin foil hat wearing mad conspiracy theorist like David Icke to believe any of this utter nonsense...

PS On This Week this evening Beatrix Campbell OBE gave an impassioned defence of Tom Watson and Zac Goldsmith - apparently these noble truth-sayers are being attacked by 'the establishment'.

This is the same Bea Campbell who wrote the book, Unofficial Secrets, that presented the ludicrous fantasy and mass hysteria of 'satanic ritual abuse' as unchallenged fact.

Ann Widdecombe: What Happened?

WHEN Paul Gambaccini issued his account of being falsely accused of child abuse, he noted several instances of the police or CPS releasing news about dropped inquiries or rebailing to coincide with more successful or more sensational news of Operation Yewtree.
 
I shuddered when I read that because if either the police or CPS should be adopting “a good day to bury bad news” mentality or “guilt by association” news management then another precious cornerstone of our justice system is crumbling.

Justice agencies in this country should be concerned with justice and nothing else.
 
News manipulation should never be attempted and statements about the course of an investigation should be determined by facts not convenience...

Yet I suspended judgment because I had the fairness to accept that it could all be coincidence, even if the regularity suggested otherwise.

Now it looks as if that fairness was misplaced as I cannot have been the only person to notice that the long overdue apology to Lady Brittan for the police’s failure to tell her dying husband that he was no longer under any investigation (and had not been for quite some time) coincided with the news that a bishop had been convicted of sex offences.

Is that what they were waiting for?...

Ann 'Not Anne' Widdecombe, Daily Express.

Sad that this has divided people on party lines, and many Labour Party supporters knee-jerk that this is all a Conservative Party conspiracy to cover up some secret Tory paedophile ring.

Whilst much of it is partly just an excuse to bash Labour via its new deputy leader, it is obvious that Tom Watson is a power-crazed delusional thug who has behaved appallingly.

PS And not forgetting... Zac Goldsmith urged to withdraw paedophile ring allegations: Ex-Tory MP Harvey Proctor says Goldsmith should rethink mayoral bid unless he retracts claims of VIP abuse at Richmond guest house, The Guardian.

While The Telegraph's rottweiler, Dan Hodges, urges - hilariously - Put down your pitchforks and stop the Tom Watson witchunt. LOL!

Tom Watson: Bore Of Duty

Huffington Post.

Tom Watson is as close to evil as any human being could get.

Maybe people should now start spreading false and unsubstantiated rumours he's a kiddy fiddler in the interest of fair play?

Daily Mail: Sorry

Daily Mail.

With the help of the BBC’s Panorama this week, the full evil lunacy of the child abuse and murder conspiracy allegations relating to Dolphin Square, Elm House, Leon Brittan, Ted Heath, Field Marshal Lord Bramall etc is now emerging. There is a long, long way to go, however, before the names are properly cleared and the police have apologised for their disgusting behaviour. There also needs to be a long list drawn up of those in public life and the media who gave credence to these cruel fantasies. The behaviour of Tom Watson MP puts him in the same class as Titus Oates, Noel Pemberton Billing and Senator Joe McCarthy. Many of us tut-tut that Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour party, but it is far more shocking that its deputy leader is Mr Watson.

Charles Moore's Notes, The Spectator.

Post-Leveson score-settling from the Labour-bashing Mail and Moore?

Well duh, but this sorry, shitty episode shows the man is a power-crazed bully.

Oh. And erm Richard Littlejohn also hates the 'Nonce Finder General'...

I thought Orwell once wrote something along the lines of, 'Something is not necessarily false just because it's appeared in the Daily Mail', but I can't find it.

So can you just pretend he said it and nod sagely?

[Edit: And similarly, an accusation isn't necessarily true just because it's made against a public figure you despise].

Tom Watson: Abuse Of Privilege

Three days after Leon Brittan’s death in January this year, Tom Watson, a Labour MP and now the party’s deputy leader, said that the deceased peer was “as close to evil as any human being could get”. That was the opinion of one of the people who had told Mr Watson they had been raped by Lord Brittan, a former home secretary. Mr Watson wrote that he “stands accused of multiple child rape. Many others knew of these allegations and chose to remain silent. I will not.”

After many months of inquiries using dozens of officers, the Metropolitan police has informed Lord Brittan’s widow that its investigation into her late husband is now at an end for lack of evidence. Mr Watson might reflect that those “many others” privy to the allegations stayed silent because they judged them to be false.

Following the BBC’s Panorama revelation that one of Lord Brittan’s chief accusers now admits he may have been confused over his identification, having been encouraged to name him by campaigners, perhaps Mr Watson will consider that having quite properly passed on his information to the police, he should have remained similarly mute. That, surely, would have been the correct course. Allow the proper authorities to assess the veracity of the information and in the meantime keep his mouth shut.

Mr Watson, however, rather revels in keeping his mouth as open as possible, as often as possible. In 2012, he used the platform of prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons to refer to the existence of a “powerful paedophile network linked to parliament and No 10”. He wrote to the prime minister suggesting that the organised abuse of children might have taken place in Downing Street. He said that senior politicians, some of them still holding powerful positions, had been involved in widespread child abuse and its concerted cover-up. He added that he had been told these powerful people might kill him if he did not stop pursuing his allegations.

Conspiracy theories are precisely that — theories. They are often wildly implausible, spinning a vast web of conjecture from one or two isolated strands of truth. Such theories, fascinating while they may be to devotees, should never be employed to destroy a man’s reputation, unsupported as they are by anything worthy of the name of evidence.

From the cramped 18th-century coffee house to the 21st-century chatroom, public figures have always been the subjects of rumour, innuendo and gossip, only a fraction of which tends to be true. Not every well-known personality is a Jimmy Savile in waiting. Panorama exposed several other purported witnesses to, or purported victims of, Mr Watson’s alleged “powerful paedophile network” as either dubious or delusional characters.

Mr Watson’s final intervention before Lord Brittan’s death was to write to the director of public prosecutions demanding that he be interviewed by police. This served no purpose other than to ensure that the dying peer’s name became publicly linked to the investigation.

In the cause of righting what he considered an injustice, Mr Watson perpetrated an injustice himself. As a politician who has made something of a fetish of demanding apologies from various agencies for what he judges to be past wrongs, Mr Watson should now consider offering one to Leon Brittan’s family. 

The Times leader.

Worth publishing in full - and, yes, I know there's Murdoch/Watson beef - but the man, self-appointed Witchfinder General meets Citizen Kane, seems drunk on power.

PS Daft statement on the Panorama programme by the Met - issued before they'd seen it.

'Darren': Another Country, Another Planet

POLICE probing a VIP child sex abuse ring faced serious questions last night as a vulnerable man at the centre of allegations said North Korea offered him asylum.

The 39-year-old, who uses the name Darren, says he was assaulted by Tory politicians at a central London flat.

He also says he was forced to take part in a satanic ritual at the French Embassy and claims to have been abused by Peter Righton, a former member of the Paedophile Information Exchange.

But Darren now refuses to co-operate with the Met or Suffolk Constabulary after his case was dropped following an 18-month probe.

It came after he refused to hand over medical records when he was asked about a history of mental health issues...

Darren now says only North Korea believe his story and have invited him to live out his years in Kim Jong-un’s murderous regime...

The Sun.

Panorama's The VIP Paedophile Ring: What's The Truth? is on BBC1 tonight.

PS 'Darren' has now fallen out with Exaro News, the main pusher of his absurd fantasies.

@ExaroNews just to say your behaviour lately towards me and others has been controlling and manipulative, wrong + morally reprehensible

— Darren Thornham (@DarrenCSAS) September 26, 2015

BBC News.


PPS Another man, 'David', tells Panorama he made up the charges against Leon Brittan as 'a joke suggestion at first', and was egged on by campaigners,

Update: David Aaronovitch in The Times on the appalling behaviour of self-appointed witchfinder general (and now frighteningly Labour deputy leader), Tom Watson, and his current silence.

Harvey Proctor: I Don't Believe It!

In the context of recent speculation and allegations on the internet, I write this to say that I am innocent of the allegations against me and I will maintain this stance until my dying breath.

On Wednesday 4 March 2015, the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Midland Team raided my home and, under a warrant investigating historical child sexual abuse, searched my house for 15 hours. I was told at 11pm that no statement would be issued to the press and my identity would not come out. That was not the case.

If not before, then within eight hours of the police leaving my home, details of the raid were leaked to the national media. ExaroNews – an odd internet news agency – was tipped off before the police left my home. Mark Conrad, a journalist for the agency, was phoning and emailing my office at 9.34pm – at least 90 minutes before the police left my house.

During and immediately after the search, I volunteered to be interviewed by the Metropolitan Police concerning Operation Midland’s investigations relating to allegations from the 1970s and Eighties...

So the “organisation” – strange term for the Metropolitan Police’s Murder Squad – has raided my house, searched it for 15 hours, removed my communications and computer equipment and many boxes of historic documents and other irrelevant material from the 1970s and Eighties, prompted me to retire from my job of 13 years and to leave my home. They have ruined 28 years of my life’s rehabilitation after 1987 and they are not prepared to meet me and interview me. They have said to my solicitors, but not to the media, that I am not a suspect and they merely wish for me to assist the police with their inquiries.

In 1987, Detective Chief Superintendent Drummond Marvin of Scotland Yard’s Serious Crime Squad was the officer in charge of my prosecution. I pleaded guilty to four charges of gross indecency. Offences which, because of the changes in the law regarding the homosexual age of consent, are no longer offences.

The People.

Chief Superintendent Marvin subsequently wrote a book and sold his story to The Sun newspaper. He wrote about three of his cases: Lord Lucan, Russell Harty and myself. In the article about me he stated for the first time, as far as I am aware, the felonious notion that there was a rent-boy ring at Westminster. If there was one, I was not aware of it, it was news to me and I was not part of it. Marvin’s article was wrong on this and on other matters.

I have always tried to protect my privacy – not because I thought I was breaking the law, but because I consider sexual matters to be private, except where they are illegal. Not just for me but for everyone. I refuse to comment on these matters now save to say anything and everything I have done has been consensual. But with alarming frequency, when I was visited by the police in 1987, journalists from the Sunday People were outside my flat.

I have not flaunted my sexuality. It is the press and the police who have time and time again invaded my privacy. In 1987, the press wired a witness for sound and was sent into my apartment. The police trawled the gay bars of London, showing my photograph to all and sundry, asking: “Have you slept with this man?” Today the modern-day equivalent is for senior police officers to go on the airways enticing so called “victims” to come out of the woodwork, telling them, without even speaking to them, that they would be believed.

Now, the guide to misinformation and the oracle of disinformation is the internet. It is a totally impossible media with which to engage, as hundreds of thousands of comments appear daily, with no chance of rebuttal.

At the behest of a weird assortment of alleged victims, ex-police officers, bishops, social workers, attention seekers and “nutters”, former, respected politicians have had their reputations trashed without a shred of evidence – Sir Leon Brittan, Sir Keith Joseph, Dr Rhodes Boyson and Enoch Powell to name but a few. They are dead; they cannot defend themselves. I am alive; I can and I will.

Enough is enough. Someone has to stand up and say the Emperor is wearing no clothes...

From an open letter published in The Independent.

Fagburn's said it before and I'll say it again; just cause Harvey Proctor is an odious far right racist shitbag, it doesn't mean he's guilty of any of these fantastical accusations.

VIP Sex Ring: No, Wait There's More...

Look what's in the Sunday People!

Daily Mail: Question Of The Day

Probably not, that's why you've phrased it as a question.

See also: Did Lassie shoot JFK?

Leon Brittan: What The Dickens?

Downing Street is facing fresh calls for an inquiry into allegations of child sex abuse among politicians after it emerged that Lord Brittan, a former home secretary, was given a dossier containing claims of Westminster paedophile activity in the 1980s.

Brittan is under scrutiny over his handling of the scandal after he said he was passed a "bundle" of claims by the former MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983 and gave it to his officials to investigate.

Last year the Tory peer said he could not remember getting the dossier, but on Wednesday he released a statement saying he could now recollect a meeting with Dickens. He said he had asked officials to look into the claims and could not remembering hearing any more about it.

Sunday Mirror, December 2013.

But his account was undermined by a Home Office review from last year that found Brittan wrote to Dickens in 1984 saying the material was assessed as being worth pursuing by the director of public prosecutions and was "passed to the appropriate authorities".

Brittan released a second statement saying he had only just been made aware of the Home Office review from last summer, which proved that "appropriate action" had been taken. He said the report was "entirely consistent" with the action he set out in his first statement.

Earlier the Labour MP Simon Danczuk challenged Brittan to "share his knowledge" about the file prepared by Dickens. It contained information about the "Paedophile Information Exchange (Pie), about paedophiles operating a network within and around Westminster," Danczuk told the home affairs committee...

The Guardian.

Geoffrey Dickens - obsessed much?

Oh Mr Brittan, what tangled webs we weave. 

Politics watchers of a certain age may recall there was one senior member of the Thatcher government who was often rumoured to be a paedophile - though no evidence was ever given (Private Eye believed it was probably a far-right MI5 smear campaign).

They may also recall that the late Geoffrey Dickens MP was a notoriously nasty and obsessive homophobe. He also seemed to think Britain was in the grip of some secret homosexual conspiracy; 'I've got eight names of big people, really important names, public figures. And I am going to expose them in Parliament.
'One of these people is a friend of mine, but you have to be merciless protecting the young. These people must not be allowed to get away with it just because they are important in public life.'

He often tried to claim there was an obvious connection between paedpohilia and homosexuality.

This homo-hating hysteria helped pave the way for the introduction of Section 28.* 

Dickens promised to name his paedophile politicos using parliamentary privilege, but strangely never did.

Fagburn wouldn't by surprised if Mr Dickens' dossier was so dodgy and unconvincing in its accusations that anyone who read it thought it should be filed under 'B For Bonkers' and ignored it. 

*See Stephen Jeffrey-Poulter: Peers, Queers & Commons.: The struggle for gay law reform from 1950 to the present.