Police investigate Labour activist after MoS reveals child sex secrets
THE founder of a notorious child sex network is to be posthumously investigated by police.
Labour activist Ian Dunn created the infamous Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) – whose members abused young- sters throughout Britain on an ‘industrial scale’.
Astonishingly, the town planner was never brought to justice and went to his grave with an unblem- ished record – despite openly calling for sex between adults and children to be legalised.
However, Dunn will now be investigated after The Scottish Mail on Sunday gained access to his personal papers. The disturbing dossier reveals that he:
Organised ‘paedophile workshops’ in Scotland’s largest cities.
Called for teachers to be able to have sexual relations with pupils.
Distributed paedophile propaganda from his Edinburgh home.
Owned documents which claimed that children were happy to be sexually assaulted.
A Police Scotland source said our dossier would be investigated by Superintendent Willie Guild, who is leading a probe into historical child abuse allegations. He said: ‘The material has been flagged up to the superintendent, who found it very interesting.’
It is understood the documents will be scrutinised as part of a drive to gain justice for victims of sexual abuse. Police will also try to identify living individuals who may have been involved in paedophile activity. Before his death in 1998, Dunn ordered that his papers be gifted to the National Library of Scotland.
Previously unpublished, they show that he used the campaign for gay liberation as a smokescreen to establish a national paedophile network.
Dunn, a university drop-out, founded the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG) – which later became the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland – in 1969.
In 1974, he oversaw the foundation of PIE, as an offshoot of SMG, to campaign ‘for the legal and social acceptance of paedophilic love’.
He also organised – and openly advertised – pro-paedophile meetings in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Papers from 1980 confirm that a ‘paedophile workshop’ took place in Edinburgh, stating: ‘About 20 people took part. Our aim was to explore our attitudes as lesbians and gay men to an issue which, with the forthcoming trial of members of PIE, looks like becoming highly topical.’ A similar event was held in Glasgow two years earlier.
The dossier confirms that Dunn worked closely with reviled paedophiles, including Roger Moody, who gained national notoriety over his book Indecent Assault – in which he defended his sexual relationship with a ten-year-old boy.
It also contains correspondence between Dunn and Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, the QC and future Tory MP, who is already being posthumously investigated on both sides of the Border over claims of child sex abuse.
In 1971, Fairbairn, who was Solicitor General for Scotland under Margaret Thatcher, agreed to become an honorary vice-president and unofficial legal adviser to SMG.
Fairbairn wrote: ‘Dear Ian, it was fun meeting you and I would be delighted to lend a hand.’
Drive to gain justice for victims of abuse