Theresa May orders review into MI5's handling of child sex abuse claims, as she admits: 'There may have been a cover-up'

Theresa May has asked advisers to examine whether
files alleging abuse by senior figures in the 1980s
were ever passed to the security services

Theresa May made the extraordinary admission that there ‘might have been a cover-up’ of an Establishment paedophile ring by the Home Office in the 1980s.

The Home Secretary’s comments came after the publication of a report into how her department handled papers relating to alleged Westminster child abusers.

NSPCC boss Peter Wanless and Richard Whittam QC had tried to track down 114 files that went missing in the Home Office.

Just one was found; another was shredded by the Ministry of Justice, which took possession of the dossier, just three years ago.

The men concluded: ‘It is ... not possible to say whether files were ever removed or destroyed to cover up or hide allegations of organised or systematic child abuse by particular individuals because of the systems then in place.

'We cannot say that no file was removed or destroyed for that reason.’  (more...)

Theresa May orders review into MI5's handling of child sex abuse claims, as she admits: 'There may have been a cover-up'

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