New rape allegations made against late MP
A new allegation of child sexual abuse has been made against former Leicester MP Greville Janner – more than two years after his death.
Lord Janner, who died aged 87 in December 2015, allegedly raped a young boy – who was at the time living in a children’s home – in an upmarket block of flats in London.
Photographs of the act of abuse were included in a pamphlet which is now said to have been circulated among paedophiles in the Houses of Parliament.
The claims were outlined by the legal team representing the alleged victim during a hearing last week of the Government’s Independent Inquiry into child Sexual Abuse, (IICSA).
One of the strands focuses entirely on the allegations against Lord Janner – whose family insist he was innocent of any wrongdoing.
However, the new allegation emerged during last Wednesday’s preliminary hearing into alleged abuse carried out by senior Westminster politicians.
Lawyers acting for the alleged victim – who will be known in the inquiry as A4 in order to protect his identity – were applying for him to be allowed to participate in the Westminster strand.
Sam Stein QC, who represents A4, told the inquiry last Wednesday that Lord Janner took the boy to a nightclub in London and raped him later in a block of apartments called Dolphin Square that night.
Mr Stein said a police officer spoke to the boy inside the club and took his details.
Mr Stein said: “It is obvious, says A4, that he looked young. It would have been clear he was in an inappropriate situation.
“Nevertheless, the police officer was and would have been aware of his position, tolerated it, allowed it and was complicit in allowing him to stay there.
“He was then abused night. He was raped.
“Photographs of that abuse were taken and he was told by the person, who is in his mind, the facilitator, that those photo- that graphs, being in a pamphlet, were being shown at Westminster.”
Lord Janner’s three children, who have been granted core participant status for the inquiry into their father, also applied to take part in the Westminster strand.
Daniel Janner told the hearing he had never heard A4’s allegation before.
He said: “My late father was a man of great integrity and principle who fought all his life for truth and justice.
“My beloved and wonderful father died an innocent man.
“Like other distinguished Westminster politicians, his reputation is very much at risk in this strand.
“This strand does risk turning into a witch-hunt of dead politicians, a circus where fantasists will have free rein to live out their fantasies in evidence.
“There were no paedophile rings at Westminster, save in warped imaginations.”
The chairwoman of the inquiry, Professor Alexis Jay will rule on the applications for core participant status in due course.