Peter Thornton, the Chief Coroner for England and Wales, publicly declared that his campaign group ‘supported the civil liberties of everyone including paedophiles’.
A Mail on Sunday investigation has discovered that he openly criticised the prosecution of the infamous Paedophile Information Exchange, even after its leader was jailed at the Old Bailey.
And he wrote that he backed a ‘reduction in the age of consent for both homosexuals and heterosexuals to 14’ when he ran a high-profile civil liberties organisation. Documents uncovered by this newspaper show that Mr Thornton, then a barrister, also defended one of the vile child sex campaigners in court.
The news follows our revelations last week that an Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Fulford was a founder of a support group for PIE members ahead of their prosecution. And today it can be revealed that Fulford also represented a PIE leader at the Old Bailey more than ten years after his initial involvement in the campaign. (more...)
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