THOSE following the news would be forgiven for thinking that a few decades ago there was no corner of the British establishment where paedophiles did not lurk. They are said to have held places in the cabinet, the BBC and the intelligence services, while the rest of Britain—police, social workers, hoteliers—covered their tracks. In the past four years over half-a-dozen major inquiries into past child sex-abuse have been opened: five television personalities have been convicted; four former politicians have been named as under investigation. On August 3rd a former prime minister joined the list of the accused.
At least four police forces are investigating claims that Edward Heath, the prime minister from 1970-74, who died in 2005, sexually abused children. A retired policeman claims that in 1992 a prosecution against a brothel-keeper was dropped after she threatened to expose Heath’s alleged crimes. (The madam, now retired, denies this.) A 65-year-old man says that Heath raped him in the 1960s. Police on the island of Jersey are pursuing claims that Heath sexually abused boys from Haut de la Garenne, a now-closed children’s home notorious for...Continue reading
via Brian Rushton, See no evil
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