Harvey Proctor's reply to Hogan-Howe

ON the 8 November 2016 at 15:31 Mr. K Harvey Proctor issued the statement below to several media outlets including Northern Voices.  The content clearly lays out the difficulties he and other have had to face owing to certain practices adopted by the Metropolitan Police Service in their investigation entitled Operation Midland.  Mr. Proctor, it seems, attaches some blame to the former Home Secretary, Theresa May, who said 'VIP abuse was the tip of the iceberg', and also to the 'MPs [who] used parliamentary privilege to stir the pot including Tom Watson and Zac Goldsmith [and] who refused to apologise'.

'Today, without prejudice, I accepted an unreserved apology from Sir Bernard Hogan Howe, the MPS Commissioner, in respect of Operation Midland. However, I have informed him the detrimental impact of the investigation on the life of my family, friends and myself was irreversible

'This apology does not detract from the adverse effect and hurt of Operation Midland on my life and me personally. I hope the police in such cases in future will always test the credibility of a complainant before someone is thrust into the public limelight.

'I believe that the police should not be making statements such as they believe the complainant is "Credible and True" whilst the investigation is ongoing.

'My efforts in challenging the Metropolitan Police Service from the beginning over 18 months ago have not been for selfish reasons but in the hope that anybody now and in the future can be spared the trauma that I have experienced . I regret that it has taken someone in a high profile position, albeit unwanted, to make an impact, but it is a moral victory for ALL potential defendants from all walks of life. I am proud of the little role I have played.

'I hope the police will learn from this so the glaring mistakes identified from Operation Midland will not be repeated.

'I have always had huge respect for the policing of our country, and admiration for the work police officers do. This is undiminished.

'I hope the Home Office will look at these matters carefully and bring forward proposals to amend the current system where a complainant, even a fantasist and liar, can be given life long anonymity and financially benefit  while the alleged suspect is routinely fingered and named by the police and in my case left destitute.

'The former Home Secretary said VIP abuse was the tip of the iceberg, it has proved to be the tip of an ice cube. She too should consider apologising for her crass remark at a very difficult time in my life.

'There was no Westminster Paedophile ring.

'MPs used parliamentary privilege to stir the pot including Tom Watson and Zac Goldsmith who refused to apologise. I was surprised Mr Speaker failed to act.

'A now defunct news agency Exaro used the police "credible and true" label as cover to defame me and others with impunity.

'In conclusion,

'Lessons must be learnt to the advantage of the innocent and the "genuine" victims of historical child sexual abuse.

'I am grateful to my family, friends and colleagues without whom I would have been incapable of  dealing with this truly kafa-esque experience.'

K Harvey Proctor Date: 8 November 2016 at 15:31

Danczuk, 'Fairy Stories' & Operation Midland!

Les May

IN September of last year the sociologist, Professor Frank Furedi, predicted that Operation Midland would soon collapse because it had become so discredited. It turns out that his prediction of its early demise was a bit premature, but on Monday it finally did.

Whilst some of the people subject to investigation are dead or have left others to comment on their behalf Harvey Proctor, who was the last person to be told he was no longer being investigated, was more forthright saying:
'I consider that Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Patricia Gallan, Steve Rodhouse and Kenny McDonald should tender their resignations from the Metropolitan police service forthwith.'

He also called for his accuser, 'Nick', and the news website Exaro, which published or sold stories based on many of his claims, to be prosecuted, and said that MPs including Tom Watson, Zac Goldsmith and John Mann, who made public comments that pre-empted the end of the inquiry, should apologise on the floor of the House of Commons.

It is not difficult to understand Proctor's sense of outrage.  At a news conference last August, Proctor was highly critical of the police over the way they had conducted their investigation, nor why he would call for Exaro to be prosecuted.

Commenting on Proctor's news conference 'Barrister Blogger' Matthew Scott wrote

'Either Exaro actually has stumbled across the story of the century, or it has been muckraking on a grand scale, exploiting a possibly vulnerable “witness” and exposing innocent people and their families to a grotesque and seemingly endless trial by internet. Mr Proctor may or may not be right that Leon Brittan was “driven to his death” by the campaign against him, but anyone relentlessly, anonymously and falsely accused of rape, paedophilia and child sex murder might well feel that death was a relatively easy option.'

When Proctor's home, a grace and favour house at Belvoir Castle, was raided in March 2015 the news was leaked to Exaro.  As a result of this raid Proctor lost both his home and his job.  That this 'tip off' came from the police themselves is suggested by both the wording used and the fact that in the quote below which appeared on 14 September 2015 Exaro had other information that could only have come from a police source.
'The following March, Exaro revealed that Operation Midland was raiding Proctor’s house, sparking much media coverage. We still held back from reporting that police were investigating allegations of murder by Proctor, who revealed that himself later.'

If there was some form of collusion between the police and Exaro this is can only fuel Proctor's sense of outrage at how he was treated because he is surely right that Exaro profited from publishing Nick's stories and the fallout from them.
One MP whose name was not mentioned by Proctor is Simon Danczuk.  Named (and shamed) or not, Danczuk was up to his neck in promoting the idea of a 'high level' conspiracy protecting paedophiles.  He told Exaro on 3 June 2014:
'As we have seen from the story that we told about Cyril Smith, there was a network at the highest level that was out to protect him at every turn.' 
And on 27 November 2014 Exaro carried, 'I can assure everybody that Zac Goldsmith,Tom Watson and Simon Danczuk are very concerned to get to the real truth behind such a disturbing scandal that has remained hidden for decades.'

Now Simon is right in calling what he and Matthew Baker wrote about Cyril Smith 'a story'; as in 'fairy story' that is.  These authors produce not a shred of evidence that there was any kind of network protecting Smith.  This story is just a figment of their over active imagination designed to 'spice up' an otherwise pretty thin story about Smith spanking young men at Cambridge House in the 1960s.  A story which had been published in Rochdale Alternative Paper (RAP) in 1979.  Ask Danczuk to tell you how many men who claimed to have been abused by Smith he interviewed before writing the book and he refuses to tell you.

What is remarkable is that anyone is still prepared to take him seriously.  Whilst running a headline of 'Humiliation of the Yard. After 16-month probe into claims of VIP abuse, police concede there's not a scrap of evidence', and a double page spread inside the paper Tuesday's Daily Mail quoted Danczuk as saying that 'a Westminster network should not be dismissed'.

As Barrister Blogger said in a recent column:
'Nick will continue to lead his life in obscurity, feted as a hero by some.  His therapists will continue to “treat” other people with mental health problems. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe will continue to preside over the Metropolitan Police and, with Hogan-Howe’s apparent insouciance Kenny McDonald will continue as a senior police officer happily saying one thing while thinking something completely different. Mark Watts, the Editor of Exaro News will eventually come up with some slippery justification for his organisation’s discreditable behaviour over the past two years. The internet conspiracists will work themselves into another lather of hatred.'

And meanwhile Simon Danczuk will continue to promote himself as an expert on child abuse.



http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/operation-midland-treating-fiction-as-fact/17473
https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/full-statement-of-harvey-proctor/
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5274/mps-call-on-theresa-may-to-set-up-inquiry-into-child-sex-abuse
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5275/police-keep-failing-to-follow-evidence-in-abuse-cases-say-mps
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5322/dolphin-square-mps-threw-parties-for-sexual-abuse-of-childr
http://barristerblogger.com/2015/08/28/harvey-proctor-exaro-and-the-pursuit-of-justice/
https://davidhencke.wordpress.com/tag/simon-danczuk-mp/
http://barristerblogger.com/2016/03/21/operation-midland-miserable-end-miserable-affair/#more-1762

Private Eye & the Paedo Ring?

THE current issue of Private Eye commenting on the recent Panorama program on the so-called VIP Paedophile Ring and the consequent criticism of Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, for being 'overly credulous on false or flimsy charges of child sexual abuse made against senior figures in the British establishment', says the fuss has 'omitted others who were similarly at fault.' 
The Eye names the Tory contender for London Mayor Zac Goldsmith, as an example of one who made a fuss about claims of child abuse by VIPs at Elm Guest House in London as an example.  The Eye says Tom Watson is now being confronted with 'a chorus of condemnation' but 'dashing young Zac' has escaped comment.


But what of slippery Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale?  The Eye makes no mention of him despite his reputation as a famous campaigner on this issue of VIP child abuse mainly in the columns of the Daily Mail.


On the 2nd, July 2014, the day after Mr. Danczuk was supposed to name someone at the Home Affairs Select Committee, the Daily Mirror journalist Jack Blanchard reported on what Mr. Danczuk had to say:
'Campaigning Labour MP Simon Danczuk said people would be “very disappointed” with Lord Brittan’s response.' 
And, Danczuk continued:
'We need to know where the dossier is and exactly what it said,' he said.   'There will be questions to be answered in terms of why such an important document has been lost.  It just fuels the flames of conspiracy.  People will think that names are trying to be protected.'


When it comes to fuelling the flames of conspiracy, Mr. Danczuk ought not now to be so modest about his own efforts to fan the claims about an establishment 'cover up' about paedophiles in high places.