UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Theresa May orders review into MI5’s handling of child sex abuse claims, as she admits: ‘There may have been a cover-up’
By MATT CHORLEY, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
Theresa May today ordered a review into how MI5 handled allegations of Establishment child abuse.
The Home Secretary also admitted to MPs that ‘there might have been a cover-up’ at the Home Office in the 1980s.
She has now asked advisers to examine whether files alleging abuse by senior figures in the 1980s were ever passed to the security services, and what action they took.
It came after a review by NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless and barrister Richard Whittam QC found no evidence of an organised Home Office cover-up of abuse claims.
Mr Wanless was brought in to investigate in July after an internal review found the department ‘lost or destroyed’ 114 files between 1979 and 1999.
A list of names of alleged abusers, compiled by former Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens, was not found.
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