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“A- Yeah “Q- Was that investigation still going on… “A- Yeah we got to the stage, I think we were charging her that week or the following week. This was days before she was charged… The CPS put a bar on me from attending court “Q- Why was that “A- Because I was under investigation. Strangely someone had made a complaint against me. I had received the 163A which meant that the complaint was over. The complaint started again I was reinvestigated for it.” “Q- What happened with [WM-F172] trial “A- I didn’t go but I heard from someone else she was found guilty on some of the counts and someone went in to see the judge [implying that police requested a light sentence because she was an informant]. That’s what I heard but of course I wasn’t there. “Q- Did you ever mention to anyone else, senior officers about this person threatening you in the pub to drop the investigation “A- No “Q- Why “A- I didn’t trust anyone, wasn’t going to do it. I wasn’t going to stop, no [sic] in my nature “Q- Anymore you can tell us about the [WM-F7] [WM-F172] element “A- No. I can’t be sure but it was always in the back of my mind these were the same group of kids [as in Operation Mileshogue], but there. But never did any of the lad I dealt with ever mention him its just the tape recording suspect, whether it was a child or not, being known and talked about regularly about the kids coming out of his address. He could have been a nice man putting them [up] for the night, nothing a 100 per cent.” Mark Watts (@MarkWatts_1), co-ordinator of the FOIA Centre, is the former Editor-in-Chief of Exaro. Ex-detective reveals police probe into VIP paedophiles’ on this website. abuse parties at Dolphin Square 19.02.22 By Mark Watts Detectives from Scotland Yard hit a hitch during their operation to clear up claims that police had long covered up child sexual abuse by ‘VIPs’. The team from the Metropolitan Police Service’s professional standards department (PSD) had found an incredible witness, a former detective from their own force who had worked in the paedophile unit from 1996 to 1999. But the ex-officer, whose evidence is so sensitive that the inquiry sponsored by the Home Office into child sexual abuse has designated his name top secret and insist on calling him only “GB”, was feeling distinctly nervous with the idea of talking about what he knew to officers from ‘Operation Winter Key’, the Met PSD’s investigation into allegations of historic child abuse relating to institutions and prominent people. He raised concerns – often voiced by former officers – that he would be breaking the Official Secrets Act by talking about what he knew. The senior investigating officer (SIO) of Operation Winter Key, Detective Inspector Dan Setter, personally spoke to GB to re-assure him that he would not be in breach of the Official Secrets Act by talking to his team about Operation Mileshogue or about the MP caught on the “sex tape” with a teenager. Setter backed this up with an e-mail, five days ahead of a second meeting in December 2016 between two other officers on Operation Winter Key and GB. A Met transcript of GB’s interviews with Operation Winter Key noted these re-assurances. The two officers from Operation Winter Key, detective constable Kathleen Drummond and a trainee detective constable, settle down at GB’s home to hear his extraordinary account… The inquiry failed to call GB or any other witness in relation to his evidence. Its report on the Westminster investigation completely ignored the former officer’s evidence. But GB’s bombshell account is set to feature in a new book out next week, Scandal at Dolphin Square, by Simon Danczuk, the former MP, and Daniel Smith. GB explains to the officers from Operation Winter Key that he took the allegations, as he describes them in a witness statement, of sexual abuse at various locations including Dolphin Square of “young boys within the care system” from Bermondsey to Thamesmead with him when he transferred to the Met’s paedophile unit in 1996. He had first learnt of the allegations while at the child protection unit at Shooters Hill police station in Greenwich borough between 1991 and 1996. In a witness statement of 2017 for Operation Winter Key, GB says (as it appears in the original document):
“It was whilst in the later part of this position that I became involved with allegations that children in care or of interest to Social Services were involved in organised sexual abuse, involving individuals and sex parties involving political, government and military figures, this was later to become Operation MILESHOGUE. “This was an intelligence led operation relating to paedophiles, the investigation did not begin until I started at the Paedophile Unit as the borough did not have the facility to investigate the matter, we were overstretched keeping up with referred matters. “It took me a long time to start Mileshogue, eventually I opened a CR docket [a criminal file log] and submitted a report on paper to push the matter. Eventually I was given authority to begin an intelligence led operation confined to the activities of the 6 core subjects named by the children. I made applications for surveillance and specialist facilities, but these were refused.” Operation Mileshogue centred on a Greenwich-based pimp who supplied seven or eight identified “young boys” for sexual abuse at parties at Dolphin Square, or at one of five client suspect’s homes, or on a boat, described by boys as a “little gin palace”, according to a transcript of GB’s interview with the Met’s Operation Winter Key. The boys were from Green Lane children’s home in Greenwich, says GB. Two of the boys, given the codes WM-A118 and WM-A119 by the inquiry, were refugees. GB had interviewed them, according to the Met’s transcript (as it appears in the original document, as with all material quoted, complete with punctuation and other typing errors): “Those boys I interviewed on tape several times. They claimed one another had been abused by other people, were taken to parties and things by [the pimp] himself he was like a modern day Fagan [sic]. “He also had them doing robberies and burglaries but he was also an informant for the police, inform on them and then turn up as their appropriate adult. These were kids all from local Children’s Home. He would befriend them and take them out.” The pimp talked WM-A118 and WM-A119 into ‘TICs’ (or cases to be ‘taken into consideration’), GB says according to the transcript. “[He] would tell them they would get a better deal that way so the kids would spill their guts. They were both up on about 120 burglaries going to court. The burglaries, the guy sending them there is the police informant so it ended up going before a judge and the whole lot was quashed. “[WM-A118] and [WM-A119] were terrors, scourge of that area. Robbing stealing everything whatever they were told. About 20 boys were involved ripping Greenwich apart.” Met notes of Operation Winter Key’s two meetings with GB record: “GB states that [two] boys [WM-A118 and WM-A119] alleged that [the pimp]… would take them to parties to be abused.” “One of the subjects lived within Surrey Constabulary… the operation originally confined to the subject became an enquiry run by Surrey Constabulary.” One suspect “was already a high-profile subject of interest in Surrey,” GB says in a statement, a former head teacher who was living in Surrey and who was previously exposed by a newspaper. This became ‘Operation Lucifer’. He says that he was also assigned to that operation. As a result, Surrey Police ran parts of the case under ‘Operation Lucifer’. The transcript records GB as saying: (For those for whom reading about sexual abuse may be a ‘trigger’, you may want to skip the following, graphic section of evidence.) “There were several named people involved, one was a former head teacher who lived in Surrey they were taken to to abuse. He ran a gay/child photography, he was a photographer and head teacher.” “He was a named suspect. Several other people were involved. One was a guy who lived in Orpington with another fella. During the investigation we found out he worked for the government in some role. What we do know is he was at a conference for arms sales. We followed him around.” “He was something to do with Government arms sales. Can’t remember his name or partner’s name. The pair of them were named people by the children as abusers.” “Going back to [the modern-day Fagin] he would take kids round to various addresses, there was a core group of about 5 people’s homes, 5 suspects that were names. There were others, the boys were taken to what they call the Dolphin Place, we thought that was Dolphin Square. They used to talk about a big dolphin there. Also that they were taken out on a boat, a little gin palace, they were abused there. They knew of a network of other children who were abused. We were told that one of [the pimp]’s boys had been beaten up in Trafalgar Square, had serious brain injuries. From what the boys say this lad was going to inform police, tell them everything. [The pimp] got hold of him, beat him up, he was left brain dead.” Asked “what info he [the beaten-up boy] was going to give”, GB is recorded in the Met transcript as saying: (For those for whom reading about sexual abuse may be a ‘trigger’, you may also want to skip the following section of evidence.)
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