UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By Ewan Palmer
November 7, 2014
A review into how the Home Office handled allegations of historical child abuse has not been able to recover missing documents said to include the names of paedophiles with links to the British establishment.
The secret files, named the Dickens Dossier, were passed on to the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983.
The review of how the government handled these allegations, set up and by led by NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless, was called after the Home office revealed they had “lost or destroyed” 114 documents concerning child abuse allegations.
It is believed the documents handed onto Brittan contained the names of politicians and senior policemen who were suspected of being child abusers
A source close to the Wanless report told BBC’s Newsnight they have not been able to find the documents despite looking “inside and behind every single cupboard in the department”.
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