UNITED KINGDOM
Express
By: Macer HallPublished: Mon, July 7, 2014
The Home Secretary told MPs that an independent expert panel is to be set up to probe claims of paedophile activities in Parliament, hospitals, the BBC, the NHS, churches, firms and other public institutions following the sickening claims against Jimmy Savile, former Liberal MP Cyril Smith and other alleged serial perverts.
And she also appointed a children’s charity chief to spearhead a separate review into the handling of child abuse claims around Westminster in the 1980s.
Peter Wanless, chief executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), will examine the way the Home Office, police and prosecutors dealt with
information about sickening crimes by a suspected paedophile ring said to involve public figures in the “higher echelons” of the political establishment.
Mrs May said: “In recent years, we have seen appalling cases of organised and persistent child sex abuse.”
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