2022 February 19 FOIA Centre Mark Watts Dolphin Square BOOK - 3 articles Mark Watts 10p

“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.)