Cyril Smith inquiry a 'whitewash' says MP who exposed the scandal

Simon Danczuk MP

An MP who helped expose the late Cyril Smith as a paedophile has criticised council bosses, calling their inquiry into a school where boys were abused a ‘whitewash’.

Rochdale Council is looking into its dealings with residential school Knowl View, where boys as young as seven were abused by the Liberal MP Smith and his cohorts.

But MP Simon Danczuk – whose revelations in his book Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith were serialised in the Mail last week – has called the inquiry a ‘bogus’ exercise designed to exonerate the local authority of any wrongdoing.

He went on to say: ‘I don’t know why they’re calling it an independent review because the council commissioned it, they’ve set the terms of reference.

‘It is a whitewash. There is nothing independent about it and I think it is wrong that the council should be investigating serious allegations of abuse that they had responsibility for preventing.’  (more...)

Cyril Smith inquiry a 'whitewash' says MP who exposed the scandal