Lord Janner's Family to "Undermine" Sex Abuse Inquiry "from Within" after Being Given Formal Role in Investigation

Care Appointments
February 1, 2017

http://www.careappointments.co.uk/care-news/scotland/item/41235-child-abuse-inquiry-must-look-at-migrants-programme-says-gordon-brown

The family of Lord Janner yesterday vowed to ‘undermine from within’ the Government’s beleaguered child sex abuse inquiry after being given a formal role in the investigation.

The family were granted core participant status which gives them access to documents and to have lawyers attend the inquiry’s hearings.

It is not clear if the taxpayer will pick up the bill for the lawyers or whether the family will pay for legal representation themselves.

Lord Janner, who died in December 2015, is accused of abusing boys in children’s homes in Leicestershire where he was an MP.

His children have branded the inquiry into their father a witch hunt, pointing out he was never convicted in his lifetime and that now he is dead he cannot defend his reputation.

They also point out that the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) was set up to investigate institutional abuse and that Lord Janner is the only individual who has merited an investigation strand of his own.