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Post by fretslider on Apr 25, 2015 3:59:42 GMT -5
The Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders is under growing pressure to resign after it emerged she worked in the same chambers as Lord Janner, the Labour peer she later decided not to prosecute for child abuse
* The Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, who decided there is insufficient evidence to charge Lord Janner with 22 offences of paedophilia, worked at the same London chambers as the peer
* The retired judge reviewing past errors that prevented Lord Janner being brought to trial was a close friend of the senior barrister hired to defend the peer against abuse claims
Ms Saunders began her career at 1 Garden Court chambers in 1983, when Lord Janner was already a leading QC there and she is likely to have worked with the same colleagues and moved in the same professional circles as him. Lord Janner remained a senior barrister at Garden Court until 1986, coincidentally the same year that Ms Saunders joined the Crown Prosecution Service.
Ms Saunders said a few days ago: “I’m not part of the establishment. If it was an Establishment over-up I’ve had to pay a very heavy price for it. It’s certainly not a cover-up.” However campaigners and victims of alleged abuse have called on her to resign, saying the new revelations about the pair working at the same chambers make her position “untenable”.
Sir Richard Henriques, the retired judge who is reviewing the errors which prevented Lord Janner from being brought to trial in the past, is understood to have regarded the late George Carman QC, from whom the peer sought advice when he was first investigated for sex crimes in 1991, as a friend and mentor at the Bar. Mr Carman also represented Jimmy Savile when he threatened to sue newspapers if they wrote about child abuse claims being levelled against him.
The investigators were apparently convince that the man had been abused by Lord Janner, but were soon afterwards allegedly forced to drop the investigation following the intervention of senior figures in Leicestershire constabulary. One of the detectives involved in the case was Mick Creedon, the current Chief Constable of Derbyshire, who later said that the decision to stop investigating Lord Janner was “taken by people more senior than me”.
It has also emerged that the teenage boy eventually told the manager of the Station Road Children’s Home, in Leicester, where he was a resident, about his sexual relationship with Lord Janner. But instead of calling the police Barbara Fitt told the boy’s social worker, Dick Beak, who allegedly also failed to call the police. Mr Beak died in 1998, while Mrs Fitt died in 1991.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11562812/DPP-Alison-Saunders-under-more-pressure-over-Lord-Janner-abuse-claims.html
And around it goes.
