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How much longer can paedophilia apologists stay silent? Even Left demands answers from senior Labour trio over links to child sex group

Pressure mounts on Harriet Harman, her MP husband and Patricia Hewitt
Trio held key roles in group that backed Paedophile Information Exchange
Columnists in Observer, Guardian and Mirror urge all three to speak out
They were leading officials in group that granted 'affiliate' status to PIE
Predatory paedophiles in PIE wanted the age of consent to be cut to four

By Guy Adams and Tim Shipman

PUBLISHED: 23:19, 23 February 2014 | UPDATED: 23:50, 23 February 2014

Pressure is mounting on three Labour grandees to explain their links with a vile group that tried to legalise sex with children.

MPs, commentators and even Labour-supporting newspapers lined up yesterday to attack the silence of the party�s deputy leader Harriet Harman, her MP husband and former minister Patricia Hewitt.

The chorus of condemnation follows the Mail�s devastating series of reports into how the trio held key roles in a human rights organisation that supported the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
Harriet Harman: NCCL legal adviser 1978-82
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Harriet Harman pictured on January 27 in Wythenshawe
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Labour's deputy leader: Harriet Harman was a newly qualified solicitor when she became the National Council for Civil Liberties's legal officer in 1978 until 1982

Jack Dromey, who is now Ed Miliband's home affairs spokesman
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Labour MP Jack Dromey canvassing in Reading, Berkshire
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Will he respond to the Mail's questions? Ed Miliband�s home affairs spokesman, Jack Dromey, sat on the NCCL executive committee for almost a decade, from 1970 to 1979

Although the BBC has ignored the story, those calling for the trio to explain themselves include Left-wing commentators who would normally be expected to back them.

Carole Malone in the Labour-supporting Sunday Mirror angrily demanded that Miss Harman, Miss Hewitt and Jack Dromey speak up about why they supported the paedophile agenda in the 1970s. She said: �How can they ever again be taken seriously on ANY issue if they stay silent?�

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In the Observer newspaper, a columnist said the Labour trio �cannot stay silent on this child sex claim�, adding it would be �a grave mistake for them to stay silent or curtly dismissive, perhaps hoping that the claims will magically disappear�.

The Guardian�s Roy Greenslade wrote last week: �I�m with the Mail on this one . . . I think Harman, Dromey and Hewitt do need to address this matter seriously.�
'People of different ages being nice to each other': The autumn 1982 edition of Rights, the in-house magazine of the NCCL. Self-confessed paedophile Mike Morten's letter was published on page 9 (pictured centre)
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'People of different ages being nice to each other': The autumn 1982 edition of Rights, the in-house magazine of the NCCL. Self-confessed paedophile Mike Morten's letter was published on page 9 (pictured centre)
Document: This is the cover page of the NCCL's submission to Parliament on the 1976 Sexual Offences Act held at the LSE library, which suggests that the age of consent be lowered to 14
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Document: This is the cover page of the NCCL's submission to Parliament on the 1976 Sexual Offences Act held at the LSE library, which suggests that the age of consent be lowered to 14

Damning: On page six of the document it is argued that 'a person aged 14 or over should be legally capable of giving consent' and the age of sexual consent cut to ten 'if the child understood the nature of the act'
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Damning: On page six of the document it is argued that 'a person aged 14 or over should be legally capable of giving consent' and the age of sexual consent cut to ten 'if the child understood the nature of the act'

Kevin Maguire, the Daily Mirror�s associate editor and cheerleader for a Labour government, tweeted: �Agree with @GreensladeR on NCCL-PIE. If I were Harman, Dromey or Hewitt, I�d want to set the record straight.�

'They�re among the first to jump down anyone else�s throats if anyone challenges their politically-correct shibboleths'

Philip Davies, Conservative MP

The Mail has revealed how, before they became MPs, the three were leading officials in the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) which granted �affiliate� status to PIE and built close links with it.

The group of predatory paedophiles was calling for the age of consent to be cut to just four.

The NCCL itself lobbied Parliament for the age of sexual consent to be cut to ten � if the child �understood the nature of the act� � and called for incest to be legalised in what one MP dubbed a �Lolita�s charter�.
Patricia Hewitt: NCCL general secretary 1974-83
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Former British cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt in Westminster
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Questions being asked: Former minister Patricia Hewitt was the NCCL general secretary from 1974 to 1983
Annual report for 1975: Patricia Hewitt published this document in April 1976, which included a 'gay rights' section on page ten defending the Paedophile Information Exchange and its members
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Annual report for 1975: Patricia Hewitt published this document in April 1976, which included a 'gay rights' section on page ten defending the Paedophile Information Exchange and its members

Defence: Ms Hewitt had described the Paedophile Action for Liberation group, which changed its name to PIE that year, as 'a campaigning/counselling group for adults sexually attracted to children'
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Defence: Ms Hewitt had described the Paedophile Action for Liberation group, which changed its name to PIE that year, as 'a campaigning/counselling group for adults sexually attracted to children'

Last night Tory MP Rob Wilson said: �When left-wing commentators such as Roy Greenslade and Carole Malone demand answers from these three senior Labour politicians, you know that this is not so much a political issue between Right and Left, but one about right and wrong.�
Now say sorry! From Thursday's Mail

Fellow Tory MP Philip Davies added: �They should certainly provide an explanation and clarification as to whether they still hold these views or not.

�They�re among the first to jump down anyone else�s throats if anyone challenges their politically-correct shibboleths.�

Police are investigating PIE as part of Operation Fernbridge, launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

A source with knowledge of the inquiry says there is evidence PIE members were abusing children �on an industrial scale�.
AGM minutes: This page reveals how the PIE was represented at an NCCL AGM at the University of Lancaster. Below the list of organisations present is Jack Dromey's name, after he was re-elected to the executive committee of the NCCL in 1977
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AGM minutes: This page reveals how the PIE was represented at an NCCL AGM at the University of Lancaster. Below the list of organisations present is Jack Dromey's name, after he was re-elected to the executive committee of the NCCL in 1977
Carole Malone is evicted from the celebrity Big Brother House in 2007
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Rod Liddle is pictured in Notting Hill, in September 2009
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Columnists: Carole Malone (left) in the Labour-supporting Sunday Mirror angrily demanded that Miss Harman, Miss Hewitt and Jack Dromey speak up about why they supported the paedophile agenda in the 1970s. And Rod Liddle (right), writing in the Sunday Times, criticised the BBC for its silence on the story
THE GROWING CHORUS DEMANDING ANSWERS...

'How can they ever again be taken seriously on ANY issue if they stay silent?'

Carole Malone, Sunday Mirror

'Who would want their own good name indelibly attached to something like this?'

Barbara Ellen, Observer

'Can you imagine how the media � and especially the BBC � would react if three current senior Conservative MPs were revealed to have had links to a paedophile group?'

Rod Liddle, Sunday Times

'If I were Harman, Dromey or Hewitt, I�d want to set the record straight'

Kevin Maguire, Daily Mirror

The Mail has repeatedly asked the Labour trio to answer vital questions about their time at the NCCL.
... AND THE VITAL QUESTIONS THEY STILL REFUSE TO ANSWER

The Mail has posed a series of vital questions to Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt and Jack Dromey. They include:

To Harman, Hewitt and Dromey:

During your time with the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), it gave significant support to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Do you regret this support or feel inclined to apologise to the many victims who suffered appalling abuse at the hands of this vile organisation you helped legitimise?

To Hewitt and Dromey:

The NCCL granted formal �affiliate� status to PIE. Why did you allow your organisation to be associated with an outfit that advocated the legalisation of paedophilia?

PIE submitted a report to MPs claiming that �girls as young as four months can achieve orgasm�, and that four-year-old children can �communicate verbally their consent to sex�. Given these utterly repellent views, why did you let the organisation remain affiliated to your NCCL?

The NCCL made a written submission to Parliament�s Criminal Law Commission, arguing: �Childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in, with an adult result in no identifiable damage.� On what basis, scientific or otherwise, did you make this extraordinary claim?

The submission also called for the crime of incest be abolished, arguing that the suggestion that genetic damage may result from children born of incestuous unions �is in direct contradiction to the practices of successful animal breeders�. Do you still take this view?

To Harman:

The NCCL�s affiliation with PIE, its support for lowering (or even abolishing) the age of consent, and its demand for the legalisation of incest were all widely reported throughout the 1970s. Why, given these morally offensive views, did you then take a job as legal adviser to the NCCL?

Miss Hewitt, the former Health Secretary, was its general secretary from 1974-83. She described PIE in glowing terms as �a campaigning/counselling group for adults attracted to children�.

Ed Miliband�s home affairs spokesman, Mr Dromey, sat on the NCCL executive committee for almost a decade, from 1970-79.

His wife Miss Harman was a newly qualified solicitor when she became the NCCL�s legal officer in 1978 until 1982.

None of the three has commented on the Mail�s revelations, except for Miss Harman whose spokesman said: �This story is untrue and ridiculous.�

In the newspapers, commentators from Left and Right condemned the trio for failing to explain their actions.

Observer columnist Barbara Ellen wrote: �The fact remains that some very disturbing things went down, including the legitimising of a group that wasn�t even bothering to hide the word �paedophile� in its name.

�Who would want their own good name indelibly attached to something like this, especially without sufficient reply? A calm, thorough, intelligent response is required.�

Miss Malone wrote: �There�s never been a time when it�s been OK for adults to have sex with children� If any opposition politician was implicated in such a scandal, Harman and Hewitt would be on their moral high horses demanding explanations.

�But they and Dromey have point-blank refused to explain their links with this wicked group. That silence has made them look weak and cowardly.�

And Rod Liddle, writing in the Sunday Times, criticised the BBC for its silence on the story.

He wrote: �So far, only a handful of newspapers have reported the fact that three very senior Labour party figures had rather close links with the group back in the good ol� Seventies.

�Can you imagine how the media � and especially the BBC � would react if three current senior Conservative MPs were revealed to have had links to a paedophile group?�

Last night a BBC spokesman said: �BBC News is an impartial, independent news organisation and decides its editorial priorities based on merit alone and without external help.

�The story in question is not new and instead we have followed several big breaking news stories this weekend.�

THE MAIN QUESTION HERE IS WHY IS THE BBC NOT SAYING ANYTHING AT ALL, ARE THERE PAEDOPHILES RUNNING IT AND DONT WANT THEIR NAMES MENTIONED,? AN INQUIRY IS NECESSARY HERE AND THOSE INVOLVED SACKED, THEIR PENSIONS TAKEN AWAY AND THEY SHOULD BE IN THE DOCK AND JAILED

thomas davison · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:41 am Post subject:

High Court judge and the child sex ring: Adviser to Queen was founder of paedophile support group to keep offenders out of jail

Lord Justice Fulford was named last year as an adviser to the Queen
He was a key backer of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange
Police suspect the group of abusing children on an 'industrial scale'
He is revealed as a founder member of campaign to defend PIE
At the time it was calling for the age of consent to be lowered to just four

By Martin Beckford

PUBLISHED: 22:02, 8 March 2014 | UPDATED: 22:02, 8 March 2014

One of Britain�s most senior judges actively campaigned to support a vile paedophile group that tried to legalise sex with children, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Lord Justice Fulford, named last year as an adviser to the Queen, was a key backer of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which police suspect of abusing children on an �industrial scale�.

An investigation by the Mail on Sunday has discovered that Fulford was a founder member of a campaign to defend PIE while it was openly calling for the age of consent to be lowered to just four.
Implicated: Lord Justice Fulford, pictured in his full legal regalia, was named last year as an adviser to the Queen

Implicated: Lord Justice Fulford, pictured in his full legal regalia, was named last year as an adviser to the Queen

It can also be revealed that the Appeal Court judge and Privy Counsellor:

Planned demonstrations outside courts where defendants � described by prosecutors as �sick� and a �force for evil� � were on trial.
Wrote an article claiming PIE, now under investigation in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, was merely a way for paedophiles to �make friends and offer each other mutual support�.
Sought help with the campaign from future Labour Minister Patricia Hewitt, then in charge of a controversial civil rights group.
Attended meetings to discuss tactics with PIE chairman Tom O�Carroll, who has since been jailed for possessing thousands of pictures of naked children.
Was praised by the paedophile group for coming to its defence.

Fulford was a founder member of an organisation called Conspiracy Against Public Morals set up to defend PIE leaders facing criminal charges.

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It later published a sickening pamphlet claiming that children would be freed from the oppression of the state and their parents if they were allowed to have sex with adults.

The 60-page document, unearthed by The Mail on Sunday, is adorned with disturbing child-like pictures and sexual cartoons.

At the time the organisation went under a slightly different name but had the same postal address as Fulford�s group had.

When asked last night about his involvement in the group, Fulford said: �I have no memory of having been involved with its foundation or the detail of the work of this campaign.�

He added that any contribution he made would have been in general terms against a law banning �conspiracy to corrupt public morals� which he believed �could be used against a wide variety of people in potentially inappropriate ways�.

�I have always been deeply opposed to paedophilia and I never supported the views of the PIE,� he added.

Fulford is the most senior public figure to be implicated in the work of PIE.

Today�s revelations follow controversy over the roles of Labour grandees Patricia Hewitt, Harriet Harman and her husband Jack Dromey, who were all involved in the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) when it counted paedophile activists among its members.

Last night Fulford said: �On reflection the NCCL gay rights committee should never have allowed members of PIE to attend any of its meetings.

'I am very sorry for what happened. I have never espoused or in any way supported the objectives of PIE � the abuse of children � which I consider wholly wrong�.

Nonetheless, the revelations are likely to raise questions about what vetting he underwent during his career.

However Fulford insisted �There was nothing to report to the Lord Chancellor�s department... at the time of my various appointments.�

The revelations also prompted fresh calls for a full investigation of the links between the Establishment and paedophile groups, following long-running allegations of cover-ups.

Scotland Yard is already looking into PIE as part of Operation Fernbridge, its probe into allegations of a child sex ring involving senior politicians at a south London guest house.
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As The Mail on Sunday revealed last year, the Home Office is also carrying out urgent checks into a whistle-blower�s claims that taxpayers� money was handed to PIE.

Labour MP Tom Watson said: �Today�s revelations reinforce the argument that there should be a full investigation into the role of PIE.

'It�s incredible that someone of such distinguished legal authority could misunderstand the need to protect children.�

Tory MP Sir Paul Beresford added: �I find it staggering. It wasn�t a clever or appropriate campaign. They were a paedophile group and at the end of the chain were little children�.�

Peter Saunders of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said it was �more than alarming� that anyone in the judiciary could be linked to PIE.

Fulford, now 61, is the most senior public figure to be exposed as an apologist for paedophiles among Left-wing political groups of the 1970s and 1980s.

He has enjoyed a stellar rise through the legal profession, becoming a QC in 1994 and a part-time judge the following year.

In 2002 he became the first openly gay High Court judge, being nominated for a knighthood by Tony Blair, and in 2003 took up a prestigious role at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Last year he was nominated as an Appeal Court judge by David Cameron and appointed to the Privy Council, the elite group of senior politicians, judges and clergy who advise the Queen on constitutional matters.

Back in the late 1970s he was a newly qualified Left-wing barrister when he joined the NCCL, now known as Liberty, which had links to known paedophile groups and attempted to lower the age of consent to 14 and water down child fool laws

Fulford�s involvement with the radical movement to legalise child sex goes even further than that of the Labour Ministers, documents uncovered by The Mail on Sunday show.

He personally set up a group to support the �executive committee� of PIE in the summer of 1979, after they had their homes raided by police.

Images of child abuse and group literature were seized and five leaders, including chairman O�Carroll, were charged with the rare offence of �conspiracy to corrupt public morals�.

Fulford and his colleagues called the organisation the Conspiracy Against Public Morals (CAPM), and it went on to distribute leaflets calling for the PIE �show trial� to be dropped, and held protests outside courtrooms.

In October 1979 Fulford wrote a full-page article in gay rights magazine Broadsheet, in which he was described as �the founder� of the PIE support group.

He claimed that classified adverts placed by PIE members, which led to the trial, were �simply to enable paedophiles to make friends and offer each other mutual support� rather than to contact children or exchange banned images.

A leaflet distributed by CAPM and available through PIE�s mailing list went further, claiming: �This is a trumped-up charge designed to silence a group merely because it is unpopular with the guardians of public morality.�

And the prosecution was condemned as �an attack on PIE�s right to freedom of speech and freedom of association�.

A longer briefing note put together by the CAPM called the paedophiles a �minority group ripe for bashing� because they were open about their aims.

In 1980, a Marxist collective used the almost identical name, Campaign Against Public Morals, and the same Central London PO Box address as Fulford�s group to publish a 60-page diatribe that called for the age of consent to be scrapped �for the liberation of children�.

The revelations follow controversy over the roles of Labour grandees Patricia Hewitt, left, and Harriet Harman, who were all involved in the National Council for Civil Liberties when it counted paedophile activists among its members

Fulford successfully proposed a motion at the August 1979 conference of an established gay rights group, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, that it should affiliate itself to his new group and also call for the PIE leaders to be cleared.

His actions were praised in the paedophiles� in-house journal, Magpie, which declared: �No longer alone � new group to support PIE� and said they �owed much to a speech by barrister Adrian Fulford, which Gay News declared to be the best made at the conference.�

The following month the CAPM held its third meeting at which Fulford and O�Carroll himself were present, as well as several members of the NCCL gay rights committee.

Minutes of the gathering show that they discussed picketing the magistrates court where the PIE defendants appeared and state �Adrian� would �ask Patricia Hewitt about the possibilities of using NCCL�s number to take messages�.
Probe: Labour MP Tom Watson said there should be a full investigation into the role of PIE
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Probe: Labour MP Tom Watson said there should be a full investigation into the role of PIE

Records show PIE leader O�Carroll � who was jailed for two years in 1981 � was a member of the gay rights committee at the same time as Fulford.

The paedophile group was often discussed at the gay rights committee�s meetings, and O�Carroll was given its support as he came under increasing public pressure.

Last night, Fulford admitted he attended meetings of the NCCL gay rights committee when O�Carroll was there, but added that his presence �left me feeling extremely uncomfortable�.

He added: �In the main, I provided some legal advice in the context of general civil liberties objections to the wide-ranging charge of conspiracy to corrupt public morals.� And he stated that he has never wanted the age of consent to be lower than it is now.

PIE folded in 1984 after the arrest of several more leading figures, including one � Steven Adrian Smith � who had worked at the Home Office.

Miss Hewitt, Miss Harman and Mr Dromey have now expressed regret for the paedophile activists involvement with the NCCL, while insisting they never condoned child sex and that PIE did not influence their policies.

However archive material shows the NCCL�s Nettie Pollard actually invited PIE to become an affiliate group in 1975, offering them the chance to propose motions and take votes at its conferences.

Last night, Fulford said: �On reflection, the NCCL gay rights committee should never have allowed members of PIE to attend any of its meetings and a clear separation should have been created with the two organisations

NOT ONLY SHOULD LABOUR STAND IN THE DOCK BUT JUDGES AS WELL AND WHILE WE ARE ON INVESTIGATE THE BIASED BRAINWASHING CLUB WHO WOULD NOT PUT THIS NEWS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN WHY?

thomas davison · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:35 am Post subject:

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How Cyril Smith evaded the law: Sickening folly of the Left who aided his cause by advocating paedophilia

His enormous working-class appeal left the Director of Public Prosecutions worried that Cyril might win public sympathy for paedophilia
The Paedophile Liberation Front and the Paedophile Information Exchange had sprung up
The organisations were affiliated to National Council of Civil Liberties (NCCL), now known as Liberty

By Simon Danczuk

Published: 01:02, 12 April 2014 | Updated: 01:02, 12 April 2014

For a long time, I struggled to comprehend how Cyril Smith's influence had allowed him to escape the law for so long. Then I got a call from a former officer with the Metropolitan Police.

There was, he said, a simple explanation. His enormous working-class appeal left the Director of Public Prosecutions worried that Cyril might be able to do something remarkable if he went to trial � win public sympathy for paedophilia.

This sounds incredible now, but as the former police officer went on to explain: �They knew how popular he was in Rochdale and thought it might backfire. They thought ladies in Rochdale would be offering their children up in a show of support.�
Former Blair ministers Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman, plus current shadow minister Jack Dromey, were all recently identified by the Mail as senior figures in the NCCL when it was linked to the Paedophile Information Exchange
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Former Blair ministers Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman, plus current shadow minister Jack Dromey, were all recently identified by the Mail as senior figures in the NCCL when it was linked to the Paedophile Information Exchange
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Former Blair ministers Patricia Hewitt (left) and Harriet Harman (right), plus current shadow minister Jack Dromey, were all recently identified by the Mail as senior figures in the NCCL when it was linked to the Paedophile Information Exchange

Jack Dromey attended key meetings

My head was spinning at the thought. It sounded complete lunacy. But if you followed this story down the rabbit hole into the Seventies Wonderland you quickly had to acknowledge there were more than a few advocates for paedophilia.

The Paedophile Liberation Front and the Paedophile Information Exchange were two of the more high-profile liberation campaigns that sprung up at the time, seeking to reclassify paedophilia as �intergenerational relationships�.

One of the leading members of the Paedophile Information Exchange was the British diplomat, Sir Peter Hayman, who was later jailed. These weren�t simply loony fringe sects.

As has been exposed by the Mail, they were affiliated to the National Council of Civil Liberties (NCCL), now known as Liberty, and would pop up frequently in the media.

Part of their strategy, as their chairman Keith Hose freely admitted, was to �seek out as much publicity for the organisation as possible� and �the only way to get more paedophiles joining PIE� was �to make paedophilia a real public issue�. In this they succeeded.

They had as many as a thousand members, and were influential. In 1978 they sent every Member of Parliament a copy of their booklet, Paedophilia: Some Questions And Answers.

The national media reported on their views and the NCCL seemed sympathetic. Most alarmingly, a letter published in the NCCL house magazine, Rights, in 1982, argued that more needed to be done to champion paedophile rights. �Consensual sex between adults and children is simply people of different age groups being nice to each other,� the author claimed.

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Worryingly, it seemed that a fair few on the Left, including some who have subsequently become key figures in the Labour Party were fooled into giving this hideous group shelter. [Former Blair ministers Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman, plus current shadow minister Jack Dromey, were all recently identified by the Mail as senior figures in the NCCL when it was linked to PIE].

All of which helped Cyril�s cause and kept him hidden from scrutiny.

It seems unthinkable now, but groups like these tried to water down parliamentary Bills which were intended to protect children from child abusers, and academics loudly championed their cause. Cambridge professor Donald West was among those leading the charge of the child sex abuse lobby.

It was �unwise�, he argued, �to over-dramatise institutional abuse�.
Cyril Smith's enormous working-class appeal left the Director of Public Prosecutions worried that the MP might be able to do something remarkable if he went to trial - win public sympathy for paedophilia
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Cyril Smith's enormous working-class appeal left the Director of Public Prosecutions worried that the MP might be able to do something remarkable if he went to trial - win public sympathy for paedophilia

With this sickening liberal wind behind them, it was hardly surprising that ugly networks quickly grew to protect and provide for paedophiles of a high social status. Secret parties, underground grooming activities and vile associations all developed out of these thriving networks.

The Elm Guest House in Barnes, South-West London, soon became the centre of a VIP paedophile ring. But although it was raided by the Vice Squad in 1982, allegations of child abuse were never followed up.

Only after recent political pressure in Parliament has a police investigation finally started to look into allegations of boys being trafficked from a nearby care home run by Richmond Council, to be abused at this guest house by a paedophile ring.

There has been much speculation as to who was part of this sordid club, but the Metropolitan Police confirmed that Cyril Smith was a visitor.

I found eyewitness proof of this when I was passed the details of someone who was forced to work at Elm Guest House in the early Eighties as a masseur.

�He knows all about Cyril,� my source told me. �See if he�ll speak to you.�

The Paedophile Liberation Front and the Paedophile Information Exchange were two of the more high-profile liberation campaigns that sprung up at the time, seeking to reclassify paedophilia as 'intergenerational relationships'. Above, a demo outside a PIE meeting in 1977
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The man, who was 16 at the time and understandably doesn�t want to be named, answered straight away. �How did you get my number?� he demanded. There was fear in his voice.

He warned me of the dangers of digging too deep into what went on at Elm Guest House. �The police told me not to say anything about it. You know what happened to Carole, don�t you?�

Carole Kasir ran Elm Guest House from 1979 to 1982. Paedophiles from all over the country would attend parties there and boys were sexually abused. It was raided by police in 1982 and shut down.

Years later, Kasir threatened to expose all the people who�d attended her parties. Soon afterwards she was found dead of an insulin overdose.

The fear in the former masseur�s voice is genuine and not for the first time I wonder whether victims of abuse can ever feel safe no matter how much distance they put between themselves and their abusers.

I learned that Cyril had visited Elm Guest House several times for sessions with this 16-year-old lad.

He liked to receive oral sex. On one occasion �Tubby�, as he was nicknamed, got stuck in the sauna and had to be hoisted out.

Another victim has gone public to say that Cyril had a friendship with notorious paedophile and founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange, Peter Righton, who co-authored a book, Perspectives On Paedophilia, which championed the right of adults to have sex with children.

Cyril was part of a bigger story and I�m sure he wasn�t the only high-profile figure, or even politician, involved in preying on and abusing young boys a

And the liberal party gave us gay marriage along with Cameron, are they closet gays, is our country now run by Paedophiles and gays?