Cyril Smith ex Wiki
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Sir Cyril Smith, MBE[1] (28 June 1928 – 3 September 2010) was a British Liberal Democrat (formerly Liberal and Labour) politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale. Smith was first active in local politics; he served as a councillor in Rochdale from 1950 and become mayor in 1966. He entered Parliament in 1972 and won his Rochdale seat on five further occasions. Smith was appointed the Liberal Chief Whip in June 1975 but later resigned on health grounds. In his later years as an MP Smith opposed an alliance with the Social Democratic Party, however he remained a Liberal Democrat after 1989. He did not stand for re-election in 1992.In later years his popularity was marred by the allegation that he had been involved in a cover-up of a health risk at a local asbestos factory. In 2012, following allegations of child abuse, the Crown Prosecution Service formally admitted Smith should have been charged with the sexual abuse of boys during his lifetime.[2][3]
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Cyril Smith Cover Up Went Right To The Top Says Chief Constable [ 22 March 2015 ]
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Revealed: Ex-chief constable who says Cyril Smith cover-up went right to the topA retired chief constable has revealed that a ‘sinister cover-up’ of the crimes of paedophile MP Cyril Smith was ordered by a top official working for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Albert Laugharne, former Chief Constable of Lancashire Police, said that in the 1970s he was asked to lie about the 29-stone Liberal politician’s alleged sexual abuse of a boy.
The 83-year-old is the highest ranking ex-officer yet to give details of an Establishment conspiracy to protect Smith. It follows a week of revelations on how the MP’s powerful friends hid the truth about his reign of abuse...........
Yet this week, BBC’s Newsnight programme reported an instance of apparent official protection of child sex abusers that was fresh and shocking. The report alleged that in 1981, following a three-month police surveillance operation deploying a secret camera, the prominent Liberal MP Cyril Smith was arrested at a paedophile sex party at a council flat in Lambeth, South London. Boys of around 14 years of age recruited from local care homes were present.........
But with each passing week, it seems ever more likely that the pieces of an almighty Establishment scandal are starting to fit together.
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The last Chief of the Met who gave serious reason to believe that he wasn't bent is Sir Robert Mark back in 1972. Skelhorn was the DPP when Cyril Smith walked away laughing.
PS This rash of old cases may be the result of the 2014 Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry & Lowell Goddard stirring things up.
Liberals Protected Cyril Smith By Bribery - Allegedly [ 4 April 2015 ]
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As we sat taking tea in a hotel bar in Manchester, Julie, a widow in her 60s, pointed at the old and fading photographs in an album.There, looking at the camera, was the innocent face of a 14-year-old boy. There too, looming large in the lens, was a beaming Cyril Smith, the rotund — and now notorious — Liberal MP............ For as we shall see, when Julie and her husband complained to Liberal officials, they were offered a bribe to keep quiet.
Any self-respecting party would have instantly put a stop to Smith’s predatory paedophile practices. But yet again in this still-unravelling horror story, a blind eye was turned...........
Victims were ignored and warned off. Police investigations were halted on orders from above. Files disappeared. We may as yet have glimpsed no more than the tip of the iceberg in a far-reaching scandal over many decades.
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Simon Danczuk puts the boot in. Voters will decide to vote for him or against the Liberals.
Lancashire Police Blame DPP For Letting Cyril Smith Get Away With Buggering Boys
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Assistant Chief Constable Tim Jacques:We welcome the publication of today’s report and thank Professor Jay and the inquiry panel for the opportunity to appear before them.
First and foremost our thoughts remain with any victim of child sexual abuse past or present and we will continue to seek justice for them, without fear or favour and regardless of the status of any alleged offender. Lancashire Constabulary was responsible for policing Rochdale between 1969 and 1974. In October 1969 an investigation commenced into allegations that Cyril Smith had sexually abused a number of child residents of Cambridge House Hostel of which he was a trustee..............
The inquiry similarly concludes in today’s report that the investigation was “a thorough and searching examination of the allegations against him (Smith)” and that at no point were the police improperly influenced by Smith or others. In fact the report stresses that the officers involved were “plain in their view that Smith ought to be prosecuted”.
It was the director of public prosecutions who took a contrary view.
This hopefully should put an end to years of rumour and speculation that our investigation was anything other than professional and competent.
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Skelhorn was the Director of Public Prosecutions that went easy on Smith.
Cyril Smith MP Admitted Being A Paedophile Pervert To David Steel [ 17 March 2019 ]
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Today at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) Lord Steel has admitted under oath that Cyril Smith confessed to him in 1979 that the child abuse allegations against him were true. Steel admitted he still did nothing about it, and made no effort to investigate whether Smith posed any continuing risk to children. Despicable.Yet on Newsnight last year Steel described the allegations as “scurrilous hearsay” and that he did not know if Cyril Smith was guilty of abuse. That can’t be compatible with what he said today. In In 1988 Lord Steel, know what he did, put Cyril Smith forward for a knighthood. Shameful.
UPDATE: See page 126 in the Inquiry transcript for detail.
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Does it give a you a nice warm fuzzy feeling to know that we are ruled by Christian gentlemen like Smith and Steel?