MI5 and Special Branch 'covered up Cyril Smith's abuse of boys'

Smith strains the benches of the House of Commons: Dispatches reporter
Liz MacKean has found evidence that the file containing claims against
the MP was suppressed at the highest levels of the Establishment

Fresh evidence that  MI5 and Special Branch  covered up Sir Cyril Smith’s abuse of children has been found in a police dossier.

The file, which accuses the Liberal Democrat MP of ‘a sordid series of indecent episodes with young boys’, was handed to prosecutors in 1970 but then went missing for more than four decades.

It was discovered by a team of investigators from  Channel 4’s Dispatches.

The file reveals that the 29-stone politician was accused of eight counts of sex abuse, including six offences at a care home he set up in his Rochdale constituency.

The case has strong parallels with that of former BBC DJ and abuser Jimmy Savile, who was allowed access to patients at Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville and Leeds General Infirmary.  (more...)

MI5 and Special Branch 'covered up Cyril Smith's abuse of boys'