November 2, 2012
Like this is big news. When you’ve nailed Queen Elizabeth and the House of Windsor for THEIR pedophile ring—I’m all ears.
Newsnight claims ‘leading Tory from Thatcher years was part of paedophile ring who raped boys at Welsh children’s home’… but BBC sparks new fury by failing to NAME ‘shadowy’ politician
- Alleged abuse victim Steven Messham told Newsnight he was raped more than a dozen times
- Editor of the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Iain Overton, had claimed on Twitter that Newsnight would name him
- The tweet prompted furious speculation online about the identity of the alleged paedophile, who is still alive
- But Newsnight said there was ‘not enough evidence’ to reveal the identity of the man it has accused
BBC’s Newsnight has sensationally claimed that a ‘leading politician from the Thatcher years’ was embroiled in a widespread paedophile ring – and repeatedly raped boys from a children’s home.
Alleged victim Steven Messham, who lived at the North Wales home in the late 1970s, told reporters he was raped ‘more than a dozen times’ by the man, described on the programme as a ‘shadowy figure of high public standing’.
But despite a string of damning allegations, Newsnight reporters said it didn’t have ‘enough evidence’ to name the politician, sparking angry claims on Twitter that the Beeb ‘bottled it’.
The revelation came just hours after MPs suggested the Corporation aired the controversial programme to act as a ‘smokescreen’ after it failed to broadcast allegations that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile last year.
Alleged victim: Steven Messham accused a senior Tory politician from the Thatcher years of being involved in a widespread paedophile ring
Scoop: Newsnight, presented by Jeremy Paxman, failed to reveal the man’s identity and the BBC has so far refused to comment
Mr Messham was one of hundreds of children horrifically abused in children’s homes in North Wales during the 1970s and 1980s.
Allegations began to emerge in the 1990s and the Waterhouse Inquiry Report in 2000 looked into the claims.
Mr Messham said he made his allegations to the Waterhouse Inquiry into child abuse before it reported in 2000, but claims they were ignored.
Speaking of the abuse he claims he suffered, Mr Messham said ‘various things would happen’ at the hands of a senior Tory politician and he was ‘basically raped’.
He recalled: ‘You were taken by car, where basically you were sexually abused. Various things would happen, drink would be involved, it was basically rape. But it wasn’t just him, there be other people involved as well.’
He went on: ‘In the home it was the standard abuse which was violent and sexual. Outside it was like you were sold, we were taken to the Crest Hotel in Wrexham, mainly on Sunday nights, where they would rent rooms.
‘One particular night that I always recall is when I was basically raped, tied down, and abused by nine different men.’
As a teenager he said he went to the police and made statements against the senior public figure, but claimed officers told him he was a liar.
A second anonymous alleged victim reported the public figure to police, but was also rebuffed.
More…
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- ‘Just think of me as good old uncle Jim’: What aspiring model claims Savile said as he tried to rape her
He said: ‘When I made a statement to the police the police crossed [his name] out and said there was no point.’
Earlier today, a senior Whitehall source expressed dismay at the chaos engulfing the BBC and suggested the corporation was trying to divert attention away from the Savile scandal.
He said: ‘This looks like they are trying to create a smokescreen to divert attention away from what happened with the Savile programme. That is disgraceful.’
Tory MP Rob Wilson said: ‘The danger is that the people at the BBC think that after not running the Jimmy Savile paedophile programme that they need to be more editorially robust and muscular.
‘But if that is what is behind this, it is absolutely crazy. Now if they don’t screen this programme, it will look leave horrible rumours circulating on the Internet about innocent people.’
