UNITED KINGDOM
Rochdale Online
Reporter: Pete Hinchliffe
Date online: 06 February 2013
Disgraced former MP, Cyril Smith was a regular visitor to a guest house in Barnes, London which is now at the centre of Operation Fernbridge; set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile Inquiry.
It is not known if there are any specific allegations relating to Smith’s sexual behaviour during visits to the guest house but activities at both establishments are now currently being investigated by the Metropolitan Police and have led to two arrests today.
Two former residents of the Grafton Close Care Home in Richmond, south-west London claim that they were taken to Amsterdam and sexually abused including being ‘spanked’ in brothels during the 1970s and 1980s as well as being taken to Elm Guest House in Barnes where they were rented out to paying customers.
Lists of visitors to the home, which is now closed, are believed to include a number of senior MPs, a high-ranking policeman, a leading tycoon, figures from the National Front and Sinn Fein, an official of the Royal Household, an MI5 officer, two pop stars and the traitorous Soviet spy Anthony Blunt.
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