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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 05:04 PM Jan 2015

Thatcher confidant raped boy and police covered crime up

Source: Telegraph

Exclusive: Former Conservative minister Sir Peter Morrison allegedly lured 14-year-old to London and sexually abused him in a guesthouse reportedly used by a Westminster paedophile ring

One of Margaret Thatcher’s closest confidantes raped a teenage boy 30 years ago but escaped justice when Scotland Yard covered up the crime, it has been alleged.

Police are investigating claims that Sir Peter Morrison lured the 14-year-old to London and sexually abused him in a guesthouse reportedly used by a Westminster paedophile ring.

A former Conservative minister, Morrison was first exposed as a serial child abuser in 1998, three years after he died from a heart attack. But the MP for Chester was never charged with any crime during his lifetime.

Speaking to The Telegraph, the alleged victim, now aged 46, said he and his family reported Morrison to Scotland Yard in 1982, hours after the teenager had escaped the MP’s clutches.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11323146/Thatcher-confidant-raped-boy-and-police-covered-crime-up.html

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Thatcher confidant raped boy and police covered crime up (Original Post) jakeXT Jan 2015 OP
They were told that Morrison had been sent to prison for his abuse of this victim, a huge lie. nt Mnemosyne Jan 2015 #1
Yes, and the article also said that they reported MORRISON to Scotland Yard, then... George II Jan 2015 #2
It certainly is contradictory. Maybe they just didn't know his position until years later. Mnemosyne Jan 2015 #3
Better explained in the previous day's article muriel_volestrangler Jan 2015 #7
It was likely the puke introduced himself as Joe Smith from Bristol. Hoppy Jan 2015 #8
Happening Here Too billhicks76 Jan 2015 #4
Like the midnight White House tours? nt Ilsa Jan 2015 #12
Goes Deeper Than That billhicks76 Jan 2015 #14
Gross maindawg Jan 2015 #5
Hideous learning he was completely protected at all times from the consequences of his crime. n/t Judi Lynn Jan 2015 #6
Fight to expose it here. dawn frenzy adams Jan 2015 #9
Margaret Thatcher was a snake, just like Reagan. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #10
Criminal political rings are held together by the skeletons in everyones' closets. hunter Jan 2015 #11
Don't know if this is true, I really don't remember the event. Unknown Beatle Jan 2015 #13
Conspiracy Of Silence/ The Franklin Cover-Up Alkene Jan 2015 #17
That's a good video. CanSocDem Jan 2015 #19
More: "A Carefully Crafted Hoax - The Franklin Scandal", by Nick Bryant Alkene Jan 2015 #20
"Family values." Or, is it values of THE FAMILY ??? blkmusclmachine Jan 2015 #15
I don't understand teh distinction Prophet 451 Jan 2015 #16
"The Family" - see also "Jeff Sharlett" hatrack Jan 2015 #18
Also Google "The Family" and "Hillary Clinton". BeanMusical Jan 2015 #21

George II

(67,782 posts)
2. Yes, and the article also said that they reported MORRISON to Scotland Yard, then...
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 06:15 PM
Jan 2015

....later the article says "it was only years later, the family claim, that they discovered the culprit's true identity".

Seems contradictory, doesn't it?

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)
3. It certainly is contradictory. Maybe they just didn't know his position until years later.
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 06:31 PM
Jan 2015

There actually are very wealthy pedophile rings world-wide, but the chances of any of them ever being prosecuted are about nil.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
7. Better explained in the previous day's article
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:18 PM
Jan 2015
The following weekend, the man says Morrison came down to Sussex with a driver to pick him up. The MP even came into the teenager’s house to meet with his father, he claims. At that stage, the family only knew Morrison as Peter, and that he was a barrister, not a politician.

His father remembered: “The guy said he had homes in Chester and London, but he never told us he was an MP. He seemed nice - very well spoken and nicely presented.
...
The next day, two Scotland Yard detectives arrived at the house and took a full four-page statement from the boy, in which he told them everything he knew about ‘Peter the barrister’.
...
It was only a number of years later that the alleged victim says he recognised Morrison as an MP in the Thatcher government, and discovered he had never in fact served any prison sentence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11323817/Westminster-paedophile-ring-I-allowed-my-son-to-go-with-him.-You-trusted-people-more-in-those-days.html
 

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)
8. It was likely the puke introduced himself as Joe Smith from Bristol.
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:19 PM
Jan 2015

Parents then to Scotland Yard that Joe Smith abused their kid. Years later, his true identity comes out.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
4. Happening Here Too
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:08 PM
Jan 2015

Don't for a second be so naive to think that those corrupted by power here weren't doing the same thing. There are many eyewitness accounts that apologists trie to discredit here just like they got away for decades there denying that pedophiles were pulling the levers of power.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
14. Goes Deeper Than That
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 10:22 PM
Jan 2015

Look what exCIA Director William Colby said about Dick Cheney. Nick Bryant also wrote an excellent book that the trolls will surely disparage even though the guy is one of the most famous child advocates.

 

maindawg

(1,151 posts)
5. Gross
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:12 PM
Jan 2015

Sex crimes are endemic in all post modern societies. Sex addiction is a disease. It is a disease that is actually celebrated while simultaneously shunning its victims. Even though European attitudes are in fact more mature and less uptight than ours, their predilection to wards perversion is just as likely maybe more so.
Its an issue that will demand our attention if we ever expect to have an honest discussion about sexuality and crime and mental illness.
We have bizarre attitudes that have led to even more bizarre laws and the ever changing and pervasive enforcement of these laws. By being selective in how we enforce them, we are a criminal society. By ignoring facts, and relying on stereotypes to govern our social policy, we are all complicit.

dawn frenzy adams

(429 posts)
9. Fight to expose it here.
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:45 PM
Jan 2015

There are people in Britain determine to expose the hideous epidemic of child rape among the elite. The Jimmy Savile case was the final outrage. We should do the same.

hunter

(38,317 posts)
11. Criminal political rings are held together by the skeletons in everyones' closets.
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 08:08 PM
Jan 2015

It's a policy of Mutual Assured Destruction.

No member of the ring will speak out against another in the ring because they know if they do the skeletons in their own closets will be exposed and they will be destroyed.

Similar things go on in the Catholic Church and in street gangs.

I'm fairly certain the entire Reagan/Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld evil empire is held together by some very dark secrets and cover-ups, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the Thatcher conservatives are the same.

There's no chance at all an honest "conservative" with no skeletons in the closet would be accepted into the inner circles of these gangs.

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
13. Don't know if this is true, I really don't remember the event.
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 08:34 PM
Jan 2015

Please let me know if it's a fake headline.

 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
19. That's a good video.
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 10:43 AM
Jan 2015


It should be used as a primer for those CT naysayers who bleat unmercifully wondering how you keep massive crimes from becoming populist uprisings.

I'm not convinced that John Decamp is the guy for the job , however much his work is appreciated. One guy filled with outrage cannot take on by himself, the media, the judicial system and the general entrapments of the ruling class.

One keeps wondering if this is a cultural problem that keeps getting ignored in pursuit of social control.

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Alkene

(752 posts)
20. More: "A Carefully Crafted Hoax - The Franklin Scandal", by Nick Bryant
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:28 PM
Jan 2015

Last edited Tue Jan 6, 2015, 03:03 AM - Edit history (2)

The title is in reference to that, "after investigation, a grand jury in Douglas County (of which Omaha, Nebraska is the largest city and county seat) determined the abuse allegations were baseless, describing them as a "carefully crafted hoax" and indicted two of the accusers on perjury charges."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations


The video below addresses the Johnny Gosch abduction, and "builds on the mountain of existing evidence to present a portrait of Johnny, Paul, Alisha and the rest of the throwaway kids whose lives were fatefully intertwined in the disturbing world of child prostitution."

Disturbing is putting it mildly.

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)
16. I don't understand teh distinction
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:55 AM
Jan 2015

You seem to have said the same thing twice here. Am I missing something?

BeanMusical

(4,389 posts)
21. Also Google "The Family" and "Hillary Clinton".
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:24 PM
Jan 2015

And they exported their hatred to Africa:

"In late February, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the nation's harsh new anti-gay bill into law, he claimed the measure had been "provoked by arrogant and careless western groups that are fond of coming into our schools and recruiting young children into homosexuality." What he failed to mention is that the legislation—which makes homosexuality a crime punishable by life in prison in some cases—was itself largely due to Western interlopers, chief among them a radical American pastor named Scott Lively."

"Lively, a 56-year-old Massachusetts native, specializes in stirring up anti-gay feeling around the globe. In Uganda, which he first visited in 2002, he has cultivated ties to influential politicians and religious leaders at the forefront of the nation's anti-gay crusade. Just before the first draft of Uganda's anti-gay bill began circulating in April 2009, Lively traveled to Kampala and gave lengthy presentations to members of Uganda's parliament and cabinet, which laid out the argument that the nation's president and lawmakers would later use to justify Uganda's draconian anti-gay crackdown—namely that Western agitators were trying to unravel Uganda's social fabric by spreading "the disease" of homosexuality to children."

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