PM orders an investigation into missing paedophile ring dossier
DAVID Cameron has ordered a fresh investigation to discover what happened to the missing dossier detailing explosive claims of a Westminster paedophile ring.
Ministers including Nick Clegg and Theresa May have rejected calls for a full- scale public i nquiry i nto historical child abuse, insisting a police investigation wil l be sufficient.
However, the Prime Minister ordered the Home Office’s most senior official to launch an investigation.
Mr Cameron said he understood mounting concerns about what happened to the dossier handed over to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983.
He added: ‘That’s why I’ve asked the permanent secretary at the Home Office to do everything he can to find answers
‘Dustbin of history’
to all of these questions and to make sure we can reassure people.’
The Scottish Daily Mail can reveal that only seven detectives have been deployed by Scotland Yard chiefs to investigate the allegations.
The tiny squad has been given the huge task of investigating historic claims of child abuse relating to MPs, a guest house where rent boys entertained Establishment figures, a children’s home and the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange.
Operation Fairbank, l aunched in November 2012, is also responsible for i nvestigating the activities of the disgraced Liberal MP Cyril Smith.
Simon Danczuk, one of the original group of seven cross-party MPs who wrote to the Home Secretary urging her to launch a ‘Hillsborough-style’ inquiry into the abuse scandal, said: ‘Theresa May will know that barely a handful of police officers are assigned to these investigations, so when they claim this is a matter best left to the police, they are essentially consigning it to the dustbin of history.’
He added: ‘They know full well that proper resources are needed to get to the bottom of years of cover-up to protect establishment paedophiles.’
Labour MP Mr Danczuk, who helped expose the full extent of Cyril Smith’s vile paedophile attacks in a book serialised by the Mail, said more people have contacted his office with claims of a child sex ring at Westminster – naming one particular MP from the 1980s.
Lord Brittan has confirmed he received a ‘substantial bundle of papers’ – which detailed allegations of a paedophile network within Parliament and Whitehall – and passed them to officials to look into.
But amid claims of an Establishment cover-up, the Home Office admits the dossier was either lost or destroyed.
An internal review last year revealed that the Tory peer had written to Mr Dickens in 1984 saying the dossier had been handed to police.
Yet the Mail has learned that the Met can find no record that the dossier was investigated.