UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
Exclusive: Police and prosecutors were poised to bring a new set of charges against Lord Janner before his death
By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent 20 Dec 2015
Lord Janner was due to face a host of new sex abuse charges before his death, The Telegraph can disclose.
Legal and police sources said the Labour peer, who died on Saturday, was to have been accused of a “significant number” of additional charges before a court hearing which had been due to take place in the new year.
The planned new charges related to a number of complaints by four new alleged victims.
The four are understood to have come forward after publicity surrounding an investigation by Leicestershire Police into Lord Janner’s conduct, centring on a children’s home in the county – where the 87-year-old had been a Labour MP for 30 years.
The peer, who had been ruled unfit to plead due to severe dementia, was already facing 22 allegations of sexual offences which dated back 50 years and involved nine alleged victims, the majority of whom were 16 or younger at the time.
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