The accusations: 22 sex attacks spanning 19 years

BY Alison Saunders’ own admis- sion, the evidence against Lord Janner was strong enough in relation to no fewer than nine victims to place before a court.

The Labour peer is suspected of carrying out 22 sex attacks against young victims, including a girl, who were in local authority care. The attacks allegedly took place over a 19-year period and include:

14 indecent assaults on a male under 16 between 1969 and 1988

Two indecent assaults between 1984 and 1988

Four counts of serious sexual assault on a male under 16 between 1972 and 1987

Two counts of serious sexual assault between 1977 and 1988.

Around 2 victims are thought to have contacted police as part of the investigation. The main claims investigated by Leicestershire Police centre on Janner’s alleged friendship with Frank Beck, a pae- dophile care home manager jailed in 1991 for a string of sex offences.

One of those prepared to give evidence against Janner is Hamish Baillie, 47, who lived in Beck’s care home and alleges that at 1 he was molested by the peer during a game of hide-and-seek.

Another complainant who formed part of the inquiry is Ray Dunkley,

6, who said he was indecently assaulted when Janner visited his primary school in 1966 – four years before he was elected an MP.

Since the decision in April not to prosecute Janner, more alleged victims are believed to have come forward, with at least 30 now said to have spoken to police.

Police have launched a separate investigation into allegations that Janner took a teenage boy to Scotland in the 1970s and sexually assaulted him.