BoJo’s lewd radio remark ‘insult to sex abuse victims’

BORIS Johnson has sparked fury by saying police spending on child sex abuse investigations was “spaffed up a wall”.

Labour said his “disgusting” remarks were an “insult to every survivor of child sex abuse”. And the NSPCC said the former Foreign Secretary’s language was “crass”.

“Spaffed” is a sexual metaphor – a slang word for male ejaculation.

Mr Johnson said the money spent investigating historical cases of child abuse would be better spent elsewhere.

His comments came just hours after Cardinal George Pell was jailed in Australia for abusing two 13-year-old choir boys in the 1990s. During a discussion on the knife-crime epidemic, Mr Johnson told LBC Radio: “Keeping [police] numbers high on the streets is certainly important. But it depends where you spend the money and where you deploy the officers.

“And one comment I would make is I think an awful lot of money and an awful lot of police CRASS Johnson yesterday

time now goes into these historic [sic] offences and all this malarkey.

“You know, £60million, I saw, was being spaffed up a wall on some investigation into historic [sic] child abuse.” He added: “I mean, what on Earth is that going to do to protect the public now?”

Labour chair Ian Lavery said: “These disgusting comments are an insult to every survivor of child sex abuse. If Boris Johnson has even a little bit of decency he will apologise to the victims and families of those who have suffered.”

An NSPCC spokesman said: “Bringing child abuse perpetrators to justice is not a ‘malarkey’ and such crass language is an affront to victims who have suffered in silence for decades.”

Former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal said: “Boris Johnson thinks spending money on delivering justice to victims of child sexual abuse is wasted.

“Tell that to those whose lives were devastated by abusers.”