NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph

BY LIAM CLARKE – 17 FEBRUARY 2015

A notorious care home in east Belfast where young boys were sexually abused was at the centre of a sinister paedophile network that stretched across the UK, it has been claimed.

Richard Kerr, a former resident of Kincora Boys’ Home, claimed a well-organised child prostitution ring trafficked him to Britain when he became a problem for it. There, he was passed around a wider paedophile network until he was 20.

Mr Kerr, who now lives in Dallas, Texas, returned to his native Belfast this week to prepare an affidavit for his solicitor Kevin Winters to be used in court today.

Three senior care staff at the home – housemaster William McGrath, Joseph Mains and Raymond Semple – were jailed in 1981 for sexually abusing 11 boys. However, there have been constant claims that MI5 allowed the abuse to…