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It has been said before Anjem Choudary is an MI5 double agent! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664141/Double-agent-jihadi-To-extremist-brothers-Muslim-convert-hungering-commit-atrocities-Britain-In-truth-spy-MI5-In-new-book-blows-cover-terrifying-double-life.html SHARE SELECTION Click here to print Double agent jihadi: To his extremist 'brothers' he was a Muslim convert hungering to commit atrocities in Britain. In truth, he was a spy for MI5. In a new book he blows the cover on his terrifying double life...By Morten Storm Published: 00:01, 21 June 2014 | Updated: 10:58, 21 June 2014 SHARE PICTURE +7 Dressing the part: Morten Storm, who posed as a military jihadist for five years while working undercover, pictured after he converted to Islam As we raced through the desert in a cloud of dust, I knew I was on my way into the lion’s den, about to put my head in its jaws. I was in the lawless, fly-blown state of Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, and, Kalashnikov in hand, being driven to meet one of Al Qaeda’s top figures, a man tipped as the successor of Bin Laden. To the fighters I was with, I was Murad al-Danmarki, a brother jihadist. Later that night in January 2012, after being greeted as a trusted friend, I was asked to go one step further in my commitment to the cause and take an oath of allegiance to the Al Qaeda leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi. With no choice, I intoned: ‘I will be true to Leader of the Faithful, and will fight Allah’s cause.’ It was done. This ginger-haired, white-skinned Westerner — a one-time juvenile delinquent, biker gang member and jailbird, now a convert to Islam — was a signed-up member of Al Qaeda, dedicated to the destruction of kuffars [infidels], particularly in the U.S. and Britain. Except I wasn’t. For five long years I had kept up this pose as a militant jihadist. In reality I was a spy, working undercover for Western intelligence agencies. I’d seen enough videos of brutal executions by Al Qaeda to know my fate if discovered — a savage and slow beheading or crucifixion, my body left hanging for days. Avoiding such a grisly end depended on keeping sharp. In London, Luton and Birmingham, where I operated, there were so many radicals on the streets I could not let the mask drop for a moment. Even my wife, Fadia, had no idea who I really was, nor my children. I moved constantly back and forth between two worlds and two identities — when one misplaced sentence or an overheard phone conversation could cost me my life. I switched identity in airport departure and arrival halls, flipping between atheism and hardline Islam, English and Arabic, T-shirts and robes. And it worked. Information I supplied had helped foil bomb plots. I planted the equipment that directed American drone missiles against some of the most dangerous men on the planet. It was a ruthless game. An MI5 psychologist checking on my suitability as a spy once asked me: ‘What would you do if you were with Al  Qaeda and ordered to execute a prisoner?’ Before I could reply, he told me what I knew was the only answer: ‘You’d kill him to avoid attracting any suspicion or doubt.’ For years I had been fuelled by the need to stop the next attack, by the adrenaline rush and camaraderie with my handlers. But this lifestyle had brought me to the verge of a breakdown. It was time to opt out before it was too late. My real name is Morten Storm and I was born in Denmark in 1976, a working-class boy with a drunk for a father and a violent stepfather who beat both me and my mother. I was 13 when I attempted my first armed robbery, holding up a shop with a hand gun. It was the start of a downward spiral into crime, violence and prison. I smuggled, consumed ridiculous amounts of drugs and delighted in street brawls. Hailed at the age of 20 as ‘Denmark’s youngest psychopath’, I joined a biker gang known as the Bandidos, deadly rivals of the Hell’s Angels, whom they fought with guns and knives at every opportunity. Scroll down for video SHARE PICTURE +7 Covert: The Danish national lived in fear, knowing if his true identity was discovered, he would be subjected to one of the brutal executions he witnessed while standing side-by-side with members of Al Qaeda But I began to worry that the constant fixes of violence and drugs would eventually kill me. After one fight in which I hit a man with a baseball bat, I couldn’t get the sound of his knees and arms cracking out of my head. Perhaps I really was turning into a psychopath, and that made me start questioning the purpose of my life. Then one day, I went into a library and, though I had never been religious, I picked up a life of the Prophet Muhammad. I knew about Islam through immigrants I met on the streets, and had always envied the strength of their families and the bonds that united them while facing poverty and discrimination. ...For years I had been fuelled by the need to stop the next attack, by the adrenaline rush and camaraderie with my handlers Now I was utterly absorbed as I read about the Prophet’s dignity and simplicity and the way he had fought for what he believed in. His words set out a system of belief that was both merciful and compassionate, offered absolution for sins and a pathway to a more fulfilling life. Islam could help me rein in my instincts and gain some self-discipline. I was converted. I joined a mosque, where an imam welcomed me, and I declared my new-found faith — ‘There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his messenger.’ He replied: ‘You are now a Muslim. Your sins are forgiven and you are my brother.’ A Muslim friend told me with a grin that I ought to be circumcised, ‘but it’s not compulsory. It’s more important that you now take a Muslim name’. ‘You should be “Murad”,’ he said. ‘It means “goal” or “achievement”.’ It seemed appropriate. After that I prayed five times a day and wore an Islamic cap as I zealously soaked up the prescriptions of Islam. I felt a sense of stability I had never had before. As part of this new life, I decided to move to England. At the Regent’s Park Mosque in London I was welcomed as a convert and encouraged to continue my studies in a Muslim country. A ticket to Yemen was offered, and I went. There, I was drawn deeper than ever into the intricacies of my new religion. After the best part of a year, I returned to London. In Brixton, Hounslow, Shepherd’s Bush and Finchley, I came across mosques energised by a new militancy. Angry young men were looking to inflict revenge on the West for what they saw as its persecution of Muslims in many parts of the world. Some began wearing combat fatigues to the mosque, among them a Jamaican-Englishman called Richard Reid, who years later would be jailed as the ‘shoe bomber’ for trying to blow up a plane with explosive powder hidden in his footwear. Soon London — and especially the mosque at Finsbury Park — was the clearing-house for dozens of militants intent on acts of terrorism. They often had similar backgrounds: difficult or violent childhoods, little education and few prospects, no job and a lot of resentments. Just like me, in fact. SHARE PICTURE +7 Demonstration: The converted Muslim formed part of protests against the U.S's involvement in Iraq outside their embassy in London in 2005. I, too, was increasingly radicalised. When I first became a Muslim, my view had been that jihad was a defensive duty rather than offensive warfare against other faiths. But now I was shifting towards support for taking up arms to defend the faith, crossing the line from talk to action. I was back in Yemen with plans to travel to Osama Bin Laden’s camps in Afghanistan when the Twin Towers in New York were attacked. I had to make a decision. Whose side was I on? With important Islamic clerics pronouncing that it was now permissible to kill civilians in pursuit of jihad and President Bush declaring, ‘You are either with us or with the terrorists’, I had no option. I could not side with the kuffar. ...Bin Laden became my hero. When my son was born in May 2002 I named him Osama. The following year, the Bush-Blair invasion of Iraq seemed like another declaration of war against Muslims and another reason to embrace jihad Bin Laden became my hero. When my son was born in May 2002 I named him Osama. The following year, the Bush-Blair invasion of Iraq seemed like another declaration of war against Muslims and another reason to embrace jihad. My commitment to the cause went beyond words. Back in Denmark I joined other would-be jihadists for training at paintball sites where we practised suicide-style attacks. Although I did not know it at the time, my activities and my militant messages online were being monitored by Danish intelligence. In 2003, I returned to England and set up home in Luton, where the U.S. occupation of Iraq was fuelling more radicalism. SHARE PICTURE +7 Talk of jihad was common, and after so much time in the Arab world among its militant leaders, I soon built up a following. No level of violence or brutality seemed excessive as justifiable retribution for the invasion of Muslim lands. We took satisfaction from watching the video of kidnapped American civilian Nick Berg having his head sawn off in Iraq. I even managed to find a religious justification for the 2005 London Tube and bus bombings in which 52 people died and many hundreds were injured. Yet deep down I was having nagging doubts about this targeting of civilians. To my mind, non-Muslims were fellow human beings, albeit misguided ones. I didn’t see the need to kill them. I was lost for words when an Englishman I was working with as a nightclub bouncer asked me: ‘Why does Allah want people to kill other people? Don’t you think He would prefer you to teach them to read?’ His question troubled me. I realised that, since becoming a Muslim, I had learned to see enemies everywhere. I was defining myself by what I loathed, to distract myself from the anger and frustration that had been part of me since childhood. Wasn’t it better to reconcile than to hate? But I put these thoughts aside as my network of extremist contacts round the world continued to grow. There were many youngsters in the West desperate to get to places like Somalia and Yemen to take up arms for the cause. I was desperate to become one of them myself. I made plans to go to Somalia and was within days of departing when I was warned by Islamists there that it was too dangerous. I was devastated. Why was Allah, the all-knowing, making it so hard for me to serve Him by giving my life? SHARE PICTURE +7 Difficult upbringing: At the age of 20, following a childhood filled with crime, he was labelled 'Denmark's youngest psychopath' before he 'found the prophet Muhammad' And from that, other questions began to run though my head. Had I got Islam wrong? Was the true faith being distorted by militant preachers? One of its precepts is predestination — that Allah has decided everything, past, present and future. In which case, where was the capacity to make a difference if we were just helpless puppets? Into my laptop I typed ‘Contradictions in the Koran’. And up came more than a million hits. Suddenly my faith was a house of cards that just came tumbling down. I could no longer see any justification for jihadist attacks such as the Twin Towers and London 7/7. If they were in Allah’s preordained plan, then I no longer wanted any part of it. But I felt I couldn’t just walk away. ...I realised that, since becoming a Muslim, I had learned to see enemies everywhere. I was defining myself by what I loathed, to distract myself from the anger and frustration that had been part of me since childhood I knew so much about my militant ‘brothers’ and their plans to wreak more terror. I needed to stop them from taking the lives of more innocents. Not so long before, I had been quietly approached by PET, the Danish security and intelligence service. Like its counterparts, MI5, MI6 and the CIA, it was finding it difficult to penetrate rapidly growing terrorism networks. Inside information was hard to come by. When they had first contacted me, I had sent them away with a flea in their ear. But what should I do now, after turning my back on Islam and jihad? If I called them and offered my services, there would be no turning back for me, no middle ground. I would have to lead a double life, one in which a single mistake could cost me my life. But the alternative seemed worse. How could I stand by as people I knew brought carnage to Europe? So I made contact. At my first meeting with two agents, I turned down the offer of coffee or water and ordered a bacon sandwich and a beer, both forbidden in Islam. It was my way of saying: ‘I’m on your side.’ I felt like a weight had been lifted from me. ‘I’ve decided I’m no longer a Muslim,’ I told them. ‘The religion that became my life has lost its meaning. I am ready to help you in the fight against terrorism.’ The task they set me was to go about my normal life among these people, keep my eyes and ears open, and report back on any potential threat. My initial arrangement was with the Danes, but soon it was agreed I should also report to MI5 in England, who set me up in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham, which had become a hotspot for Islamist radicals. I needed a cover story to allay any suspicions about the cash I was receiving, so I was set up as a taxi driver. MI5 even bought me a Mercedes, with leather-trimmed seats. But taxi-driving wasn’t my cup of tea and I gave it up. Anwar al-Awlaki who Morten Storm claimed to help bring down SHARE PICTURE +7 Developing extremism: After travelling to terrorist camps in Yemen, Osama Bin Laden became his hero. He even named his son after him With my wife Fadia, I lived in a rundown council house on a street littered with discarded needles and rubbish. She was far from happy, but for her sake, and mine, I couldn’t explain why. It was the price of my living a lie. I had some preliminary training. Later, MI5 taught me counter-surveillance in Edinburgh and MI6 took me to a secret facility near Portsmouth harbour for role-playing games. It turned out I was a natural problem-solver. I was let loose on the streets, where I used my connections and my credentials as an outspoken militant of many years’ standing to immerse myself in the extremist scene. ...At my first meeting with two agents, I turned down the offer of coffee or water and ordered a bacon sandwich and a beer, both forbidden in Islam. It was my way of saying: ‘I’m on your side.’ I felt like a weight had been lifted from me My lifeline was the mobile phone with which I communicated with my handlers several times each day, running through information and ideas but always being careful with our language in case anyone was listening in. Getting my ‘fellow’ extremists to open up was not difficult. Most loved nothing better than to chat. Soon my knowledge of the militant scene in the UK and my Rolodex of jihadists was generating results. Hassan Tabbakh was a Syrian in his mid-30s, who confided to me that he had been learning how to build bombs and showed me sketches of targets in London, including Oxford Street and the area around Parliament. ‘Brother, what do you think? Will it work?’ he asked, inviting me to join the plot. He was a physics graduate, and I had little doubt he would be able to build the bombs. The question was when. I alerted MI5 and discovered Tabbakh had not even been on their radar. He was the archetypal ‘lone-wolf terrorist’, the sort that are most difficult to detect. ‘We need you to stick very close to him,’ I was told, and I did. As part of the operation to gain his trust, MI5 even staged the detaining of me at Gatwick airport — which further burnished my credentials among the militants in Birmingham. Wary of blowing my cover, MI5 took elaborate steps to mask my role by shifting suspicion on to another of his associates. Tabbakh was arrested in December 2007 and later convicted of making bombs to launch a terrorist attack. One killer was off the streets, thanks to me. There would be many others. But my role was taking a personal toll. The espionage business was all-consuming, and even when things were slow, I found it difficult to switch off. Occasionally, I took long drives into the countryside for a pint in a pub and a chat with ordinary people. For a few precious minutes I just needed to drop the mask or I’d have gone mad. SHARE PICTURE +7 Change: After he no could longer find any justification for attacks such as 9/11, he decided to help Western intelligence agencies when they contacted him Many of the Islamic extremists I moved among turned out to be blowhards, talking big but thankfully doing nothing. An exception was a British-Pakistani I knew only as Saheer. I discovered he was in his late 20s and already had a conviction for armed robbery. Like a growing number of young Muslims, he had been radicalised while in prison. ‘Brother, we need to fight back against the kuffar,’ he said, as we shared a yogurt cake in a Moroccan cafe. ‘Murad, I’d like to do a martyrdom operation. I want to die in an attack. I want to be killed “fee sabeel Allah” [for the sake of Allah].’ His chosen target was the office of a Danish newspaper that had run a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, which is why he was talking to me. As I listened to him outline plans, I told myself be neither dismissive nor overly eager to help. I had to go slowly and let this play out. ...The espionage business was all-consuming, and even when things were slow, I found it difficult to switch off. Occasionally, I took long drives into the countryside for a pint in a pub and a chat with ordinary people Later, I called ‘Sunshine’, a vivacious woman in her early 30s who was one of my MI5 handlers. She met me in a Sainsbury’s car park near Birmingham and drove me to a large warehouse, one of MI5’s secret operations centres. Andy, my chief handler, was waiting for me. I told him about Saheer. ‘He’s really dangerous, a total psycho. What the hell am I supposed to do?’ Andy replied: ‘You need to keep talking to him.’ Saheer was MI5’s worst nightmare — a savvy career criminal who was morphing into a jihadi with a death wish. And he was very security conscious. He only spoke to me when we were alone and outdoors, and each time he patted me down for any devices. ‘Just a precaution, brother,’ he’d say. But he was sharing his plans only with me. If he was arrested, not only would my cover be blown, but we would not get a conviction. It was all hearsay and I might be accused of entrapment. I changed tack. I told him that a respected imam I’d met in Yemen had declared it permissible to sell drugs to raise money for jihad. And to find the cash for the weapons he needed, he did just that. He asked me to join him on the Denmark attack, saying: ‘This is the best, Murad. We get to be shuhada [martyrs].’ ‘I’m with you, brother. We are mujahideen and this is what we fight for. This is paradise,’ I replied, summoning up all the conviction I could manage. In my head I was thinking, how am I going to get out of this? The day of our departure for Denmark loomed, but my MI5 handlers still kept me in the dark about what they were planning. I couldn’t sleep for worry as I contemplated what might happen. A week before we were due to leave, British police arrested Saheer as he sold drugs on the streets of Birmingham. I breathed a huge sigh of relief. He later received a lengthy prison sentence. For me, though, there were much bigger fish to fry. My principal target in all my years under cover was a highly dangerous radical on the run in the Yemen. The CIA were desperate to get him — and, as I will explain on Monday, they saw me as the one person who could hook him. This edited extract is from Agent Storm by Morten Storm with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister, published by Viking on July 3 at £16.99 © Morten Storm, Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister. To buy a copy for £14.99 (incl p&p), call 0844 472 4157 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664141/Double-agent-jihadi-To-extremist-brothers-Muslim-convert-hungering-commit-atrocities-Britain-In-truth-spy-MI5-In-new-book-blows-cover-terrifying-double-life.html#ixzz35H0c1DEq Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140426/main5.htm#1 M A I N N E W S The Tribune investigation: Part-I Badal-Kairon-Majithia clan’s growing biz empire Devinder Pal Tribune News Service The list of assets filed by the members of the extended family of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at various times of nominations in polls, including recently by his daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur Badal, gives a glimpse of their vast business empire spread across transport, hotels, media, power, and non-conventional energy. In this first of a series, The Tribune checks out on their companies and intertwining of shareholdings and directors that hints at a conflict of interest. Sukhbir: No conflict of interest Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal (pic) claimed all his businesses were above board. Talking to The Tribune, he said: “With a clear heart, I can say that there is no clash of interest. When Capt Amarinder Singh was the Chief Minister, he tried to fix us but was unable to find anything illegal in our business deals. Then he tried to condemn us using various means. All our papers relating to property, land, hotels, bus companies were thoroughly examined by various agencies let loose on us by the Congress, but nothing illegal was found.” Sukhbir maintained there was nothing shady about his businesses and no discrepancy had ever been found in the companies owned by the family. “My family and I file income tax returns without fail and our accounts are maintained in a professional manner. My shareholding in my companies is listed on official websites.” He dismissed reports of any wrongdoing in transport, hotel and media companies. “The transport company is owned by the Badal family since 1947 and my hotel business is also scrutinised by government agencies concerned. My ownership of the PTC is in public domain.” Chandigarh, April 25 When SAD-BJP candidate for Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency Harsimrat Kaur Badal filed her nomination papers with the Election Commission last fortnight, in an accompanying affidavit she listed her assets at Rs 12.02 crore and that of her spouse, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, at Rs 96.14 crore. Together they totalled Rs 108.16 crore. This marked a whopping increase from Rs 60.31 crore that she had listed during the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, just five years ago. In the 2012 Vidhan Sabha polls, Sukhbir Singh listed his assets at Rs 90.86 crore, against Rs 13.38 crore in 2004. Yet as a Tribune investigation into their overall assets and ownership of companies reveals, the declaration masks a maze of business interests and investments that are intertwined with the extended family of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Incidentally, as against his son and daughter-in-law, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s assets as per his declaration in 2012 were only Rs 6.75 crore, down from Rs 9.20 crore in 2007. Surprisingly, his name does not figure in any of Sukhbir’s vast empire of companies. Wealthy extended family The Badal’s extended family too are known to be wealthy. Chief Minister’s son-in-law Adesh Partap Singh Kairon, who is married to his daughter Parneet Kaur and has a host of business interests, declared his assets in 2012 at Rs 51.23 crore, and in 2007 Rs 20.81 crore. Kairon is the grandson of Punjab’s former Chief Minister Partap Singh Kairon. Sukhbir Badal’s brother-in-law Bikram Singh Majithia, currently a Punjab minister, too belongs to a well-known business family. In 2012, he had declared his assets at Rs 11.21 crore, and in 2007 Rs 9.16 crore. Among them, the Badals, Kairons and Majithias own a plethora of companies. Together, they have a finger in the pie across multiple businesses — transport, hospitality, media, civil aviation, power, energy and even agriculture — across the state. Among Parkash Singh Badal, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Bikram Singh Majithia and Adesh Partap Singh Kairon, they hold charge of 27 portfolios in the state. Of them, Sukhbir, wife Harsimrat Kaur, sister Parneet Kaur, brother-in-law Adesh Partap and brother-in-law Bikram Majithia have business dealings with the state. Incidentally, the names of Sukhbir’s cousin Manpreet Singh Badal or his father Gurdas Singh Badal do not figure in any of their businesses. The initial days Old-timers recall how Punjab’s ruling family of Parkash Singh Badal till 1988 was no more than a well-to-do farming family dabbling in the transport business on the side. By 2013, Orbit Resorts, the parent company of the vast business empire of Sukhbir and Harsimrat, was worth Rs 726 crore. Of the total value, the share capital is Rs 11.72 crore, reserves and surplus Rs 713.83 crore and share application money Rs 75.22 lakh. The major expansion of the Badals’ businesses came after March 2007, when the SAD-BJP alliance came to power for the fourth time. In the transport sector, they owned only two companies — Orbit Travels and Dabwali Transport Company. Now in road transport alone, they have business interests in at least four companies — Orbit Aviation, Taj Travels Private Limited, Dabwali Transport and Indo-Canadian Transport Company. Indo-Canadian Transport Company is their latest acquisition and its current shareholding is not reflected in the documents of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA). The Badal-associated transport companies not only hold a virtual monopoly in the luxury bus segment but are clearly the dominant player in the private sector. Though none in the family has of late held the state’s transport portfolio, the Punjab Chief Minister has on more than one occasion intervened on behalf of the department. A perusal of MCA documents shows the Badal family and their close associates are on the board of at least 12 registered companies and shareholdings cutting across multiple businesses. In some cases, investigations show, the companies of the extended “Badal parivar” may have benefited from not just the Punjab Government but also the very ministries of which portfolios were held by them. When asked by The Tribune, Sukhbir Singh Badal, however, maintains there is no clash of interest in his business dealings and governance of the state. Hospitality foray Besides transport companies, there is another company, Metro Eco Green Resorts Limited, in which the Badals have a major shareholding — Sukhbir Badal (39.49 per cent) and Harsimrat Badal (54.09 per cent). Its directors include Lakhvir Singh and Mohammad Jameel, who are known Badal loyalists. This company is in the process of setting up Eco Tourism Resorts, less than 10 km from Mullanpur township, which the SAD-BJP government has pushed with full vigour, despite Opposition parties alleging that this was to add value to their old poultry project that had failed. What is today Metro Eco Green Resorts Limited was earlier Continental Hatcheries Private Limited in Pallanpur, which was incorporated in 1985. The changed company (Metro Eco Greens) has approvals of the Chief Town Planner. Incidentally, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal is also Punjab’s Housing and Urban Development Minister. Harsimrat Kaur is a director in Metro Eco Green Resorts, besides Orbit Resorts Private Limited, from where she draws a salary of Rs 3 crore per annum. Incidentally, Parneet Kaur, daughter of the Chief Minister, also has a share in Orbit Resorts. Kairons’ ventures Kairons’ business interests include the ones in power and agriculture sectors. One of their companies is Shivalik Telecom Limited, in which Parneet Kaur and her mother-in-law Kusum Kumari are directors. Adesh Partap Singh Kairon along with Parneet and Kusum is a shareholder of the company. In another company, of which Adesh’s brother Uday Kairon is the CEO is Shivalik Agro Chemicals Limited, which has dealings with the Punjab Agriculture Department. Adesh and Uday are directors in another company, Shivalik Farm Chemicals Limited. In Shivalik Electric Equipment Company Private Limited, Kusum Kumari is a director. Each of these companies is engaged in business dealings with the very state departments — power and agriculture — held by the Chief Minister. Transport business One of the companies in which the extended Badal family has a direct interest is Orbit Aviation Private Limited, into which the Badal’s flagship transport company, Orbit Transport, merged in 2010. The transport companies of the Badals have constantly been in news over the past seven years and faced allegations of blatant high-handedness and misuse of power. Though the Majithias had at least five companies before 2007, Orbit Aviation Private Limited was incorporated only in June 2007 - three months after the SAD-BJP formed the government. It started with Satyajeet Singh Majithia (Sukhbir’s father-in-law), Gurmehar Singh Majithia (Sukhbir’s brother-in-law), Mohammad Jameel and Mohammad Rafiq as directors. Since 2011, Sukhbir has displaced brother-in-law Gurmehar Singh Majithia (Harsimrat’s brother) and mother-in-law Sukhmanjus Majithia, who were the original shareholders in Orbit Aviation. The company reportedly owns two fixed-wing aircraft and a helicopter. Sukhbir’s present stake in Orbit Aviation is through a series of transfer and purchase of shares between November, 2011 and March, 2013. MCA documents suggest Sukhbir now holds a majority of shares in Orbit Aviation with Orbit Resorts controlling over 2 crore of its shares. Stake in media Sukhbir also owns a range of media companies that dominate prime time viewing in the state. His media firm G-Next Private Limited now owns PTC Group of channels — PTC News, PTC Punjabi, Chak De — besides PTC Motion Pictures, a film company. The fulcrum of the media-related companies of the Badals are Rabindra Narayan (RN) and Rajee M Shinde as directors. They are directors of Gur-Baz Media Private Limited and G-Next Private Limited with the same address (F-137 Phase VIII B, Mohali). The major stakeholder in the companies that own PTC Group of Channels — through a circuitous route —is Sukhbir Singh Badal. Punjab’s Minister of Information and Public Relations is Bikram Singh Majithia. The Majithias, too, are said to have taken benefits from the Punjab Government through Saraya Industries Limited. Though this company has been in operation since 1980, it has been engaging with the Punjab Government for setting up co-generation power plants since 2008-09. Its directors include Satyajeet Singh Majithia and Gurmehar Singh Majithia. Among the shareholders of the company is Bikram Singh Majithia, who incidentally is also holding the portfolio of Non-Conventional Energy. The family loyalists The Badals run their companies through a select group of people who hold top positions in their ventures: Among the shareholders in Orbit Aviation are two brothers — Mohammad Jameel (1,69,728 shares) and Mohammad Rafiq (13,249 shares) — who belong to Bathinda. Interestingly, Mohammad Jameel is also the managing director of Badal-owned Dabwali Transport Company Limited, which operates buses. Jameel is further a director in Orbit Resorts Private Limited, which runs a five-star property in Gurgaon. The same person is also a director in Falcon Properties Private Limited, Global Promoters Private Limited, Punjab Animal Breeders Private Limited, and Metro Eco Green Resorts Limited. Incidentally, the address of real estate firm Falcon Properties Private Limited has the registered address of H No. 256, Sector 9, Chandigarh — the private residence of the Badals. Mohammad Rafiq is a director of three companies - Punjab Animal Breeders Private Limited, Dabwali Transport Company Limited and Falcon Properties Private Limited. Besides the two brothers, others key persons who figure repeatedly as directors or shareholders in various companies of the Badals are: Lakhvir Singh, alias Lakhi, a resident of Handiaya village, Barnala district, and Jagpal Singh, a resident of Selbrah village, Bathinda district. Lakhi is the managing director of Taj Travels Private Limited. He also remained director of Orbit Resorts Private Limited till April 15, 2014. He is also a director in Hargobind Travels Private Limited, Shan-e-Punjab Private Limited, Taj Entertainment Private Limited, Indo-Canadian Transport Company Private Limited, Good Luck Advances and Finlease Limited and Metro Eco Green Resort Limited. Jagpal Singh is a director in Shan-e-Punjab Travels Private Limited, Taj Travels Private Limited, Hargobind Travels Private Limited, Taj Entertainment Private Limited and Indo-Canadian Transport Company Private Limited. (Inputs: Sarbjit Dhaliwal & Ruchika M Khanna) Tomorrow: Power Sector

Not Labour as they need to purge paedophiles from its rank & files, Cyril Smith had started his political career as a Labour councillor. http://labour25.com/?s=cyril http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/councillors-regret-for-backing-man-convicted-688683 One could argue the reason the grooming scandals went on for so long was whilst Labour was in power they were corrupted from within? A formal dialogue was raised with the Labour Party (constituent MPs, Councillors etc. leading lights of the community they would argue) anyhow their take was this was propaganda? it was argued if this is the case sue for defamation and get the website shutdown? As you can see labour25.com is going from strength to strength. Before you ask I will not be voting for any of the main stream parties.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606803/Ringleader-gang-organising-visa-weddings-cash-jailed-caught-OWN-fake-marriage.html Click here to print Ringleader of gang organising visa weddings for cash jailed after being caught at his OWN fake marriageHarpal Singh, 51, made £5,000 a time setting up bogus marriages Registry officials didn't believe validity of Singh's divorce documents He was already married, but wanted a sham marriage after visa denial Arrested on the morning of his sham marriage at Cardiff Register Office Singh, of Forest Gate, London, has been jailed for four years and 20 weeks By Jill Reilly Published: 12:15, 17 April 2014 | Updated: 15:06, 17 April 2014 SHARE PICTURE +6 Harpal Singh, 51, made £5,000 each time he set up bogus marriages between East European woman and Asian students A ringleader in charge of organising sham weddings across Britain was jailed today after being caught at his own fake marriage. Harpal Singh, 51, made £5,000 each time he set up bogus marriages between East European woman and Asian students whose visas were running out. Singh, from Forest Gate, east London, set up weddings with Czech women living in Britain - because their EU citizenship would allow their new husbands to live in the UK. But a court heard his criminal network was uncovered by police when he was stopped from going through with his own fake marriage. And he was discovered carrying a bag full of other people's identity cards and 'marriage packs'. Prosecutor Andrew Davies said: 'Singh would arrange marriages for Pakistani, Indian and Nepalese men who were either about to have visas run out or had overstayed. 'He would arrange for them to marry Czech women who had EU residency and therefore could confer this to any husbands. 'As far as we can ascertain he arranged four sham weddings - one of which was his own. 'The men would pay him to facilitate the marriage and the Czech women would be paid to get married to provide EU citizenship.' Cardiff Crown Court heard Indian-born Singh entered Britain in 2006 on a six month visa with his wife and three children. SHARE PICTURE +6 SHARE PICTURE +6 Czech woman Romana Nistrova, 23, agreed to enter into a sham marriage organised by Singh after getting into financial difficulties But after two failed immigration applications in 2009 and 2011 he was caught trying to marry a Czech woman at Cardiff Register Office in May last year. Singh was caught out after registry officials did not believe his divorce documents were genuine - and he was arrested on the morning of his sham marriage. Mr Davies said: 'He had two bags with him which had a number of other people's documents and passports in them. 'Some were related to sham marriages we could identify and others we could not. 'He retained the ID documents and cards of participants to encourage them to pay the money and go through with the sham marriages.' SHARE PICTURE +6 SHARE PICTURE +6 Pakistani student Haider Ali, 23 who had paid Harpal Singh £4950 to arrange a sham marriage 11 days before his visa ran out - he was jailed for 12 months. Right, Romana Nistrova, who is currently four months pregnant, was given a 12 month suspended prison sentence The documents in his bag led to the arrest of two Pakistani students and a Czech woman who were planning to enter into sham marriages organised by Singh. They sat next to Singh in the dock and all four defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to avoid immigration enforcement action by deception. The bogus marriages were due to go ahead in registry offices around the UK - in Cardiff, Leeds and Motherwell. The court heard Pakistani student Haider Ali, 23, had paid Singh £4,950 to arrange a marriage to take place 11 days before his student visa ran out. Ali, from Surrey, was due to marry a pregnant 19-year-old Czech woman called Jesika Horvatova who has since gone on the run. Another Pakistani student Awais Ahmad, 23, had been in the UK for four years when his student visa was running out. SHARE PICTURE +6 At Cardiff Crown Court Judge Neil Bidder QC told the four: 'These actions are an attack on the proper system of immigration control and also the institution of marriage' Ahmad from south London, was due to enter into his sham marriage a month before his visa ran out. Czech woman Romana Nistrova, 23, agreed to enter into a sham marriage organised by Singh after getting into financial difficulties. Nistrova, from Birmingham, came to the UK with her mother and five siblings in 2006 and is currently four months pregnant. Judge Neil Bidder QC told the four: 'These actions are an attack on the proper system of immigration control and also the institution of marriage. 'You, Singh, planned to make money by exploiting people's desires to remain in the country and preyed on women's financial hardship. 'Ali and Ahmad deliberately intended to avoid immigration controls to remain in the UK when lawful efforts had failed. 'And it is really very surprising to most people that women could contemplate going through a marriage ceremony for financial gain. 'It is a shameful thing that you did - a truly shameful thing.' Judge Bidder gave Nistrova a 12 month suspended prison sentence and ordered she complete 100 hours community work. He sentenced Ahmad and Ali both to 12 months in prison - and they walked free from court after serving six months in custody while waiting to be sentenced. Judge Bidder jailed Singh for four years and 20 weeks. 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Patricia Hewitt called for age of consent to be lowered to ten Former Labour cabinet minister apologises for links to paedophile group in 1970s and admits she 'got it wrong' Former Labour cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt Photo: PAUL GROVER By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent 8:39AM GMT 28 Feb 2014 Patricia Hewitt was forced to apologise after it was revealed that she had called for the age of sexual consent to be lowered to ten. The document published in the former Labour cabinet minister’s name also called for incest to be legalised. A National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) press release quoted in The Sun issued in Miss Hewitt’s sole name in Mach 1976 read: “NCCL proposes that the age of consent should be lowered to 14, with special provision for situations where the partners are close in age or where the consent of a child over ten can be proved.” The document, which relates to an NCCL report on sexual law reformed continues: "The report argues that the crime of incest should be abolished. “In our view, no benefit accrues to anyone by making incest a crime when committed between mutually consenting persons over the age of consent.” Related Articles 'Harman did not want to rock boat over links to child sex group' 26 Feb 2014 Hewitt campaign group offered advice to adults who have sex with 14-year-olds 26 Feb 2014 Paedophilia and sex norms: the past is another country 26 Feb 2014 Patricia Hewitt says sorry for her role in paedophile controversy 27 Feb 2014 Miss Hewitt, who was general secretary of the NCCL from 1974 to 1983 said: "I take responsibility for the mistakes we made. I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so. Miss Hewitt finally broke her silence and apologised for her role in the scandal after The Telegraph asked her to explain why the NCCL of which she was general secretary had pledged it’s “protection and support” for prominent paedophile group the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Miss Hewitt said she had been out of the country for the past 12 days as the scandal over the links has been growing and apologised for her association with the group. She said: “NCCL in the 1970s, along with many others, was naïve and wrong to accept PIE's claim to be a ‘campaigning and counselling organisation that ‘does not promote unlawful acts’. "I should have urged the council to take strong measures to protect NCCL’s integrity from the activities of PIE members and sympathisers and I deeply regret not having done so." Miss Hewitt later became press secretary to Labour leader Neil Kinnock. She was an MP for 13 years to 2010 and served as a Health Secretary in the last Labour government. Her admissions place further pressure on Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour Leader who served as legal officer for the NCCL from 1976 to offer a full apology for her own links to the paedophile organisation. Miss Hewitt’s frank admission that “got it wrong” contrasts sharply with Miss Harman’s insistence that she has “nothing to apologise for.” Miss Harman has insisted that PIE was confronted by NCCL in 1976 and “pushed them to the margins.” However pressure was building on her to offer a full apology over links. Rob Wilson, the Tory MP for Reading East, said: “It is right and welcome that Patricia Hewitt has apologised. “It makes it hard to see why others involved would not wish to do the same.” http://www.telegraph...red-to-ten.html

Patricia Hewitt called for age of consent to be lowered to ten Former Labour cabinet minister apologises for links to paedophile group in 1970s and admits she 'got it wrong' Former Labour cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt Photo: PAUL GROVER By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent 8:39AM GMT 28 Feb 2014 Patricia Hewitt was forced to apologise after it was revealed that she had called for the age of sexual consent to be lowered to ten. The document published in the former Labour cabinet minister’s name also called for incest to be legalised. A National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) press release quoted in The Sun issued in Miss Hewitt’s sole name in Mach 1976 read: “NCCL proposes that the age of consent should be lowered to 14, with special provision for situations where the partners are close in age or where the consent of a child over ten can be proved.” The document, which relates to an NCCL report on sexual law reformed continues: "The report argues that the crime of incest should be abolished. “In our view, no benefit accrues to anyone by making incest a crime when committed between mutually consenting persons over the age of consent.” Related Articles 'Harman did not want to rock boat over links to child sex group' 26 Feb 2014 Hewitt campaign group offered advice to adults who have sex with 14-year-olds 26 Feb 2014 Paedophilia and sex norms: the past is another country 26 Feb 2014 Patricia Hewitt says sorry for her role in paedophile controversy 27 Feb 2014 Miss Hewitt, who was general secretary of the NCCL from 1974 to 1983 said: "I take responsibility for the mistakes we made. I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so. Miss Hewitt finally broke her silence and apologised for her role in the scandal after The Telegraph asked her to explain why the NCCL of which she was general secretary had pledged it’s “protection and support” for prominent paedophile group the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Miss Hewitt said she had been out of the country for the past 12 days as the scandal over the links has been growing and apologised for her association with the group. She said: “NCCL in the 1970s, along with many others, was naïve and wrong to accept PIE's claim to be a ‘campaigning and counselling organisation that ‘does not promote unlawful acts’. "I should have urged the council to take strong measures to protect NCCL’s integrity from the activities of PIE members and sympathisers and I deeply regret not having done so." Miss Hewitt later became press secretary to Labour leader Neil Kinnock. She was an MP for 13 years to 2010 and served as a Health Secretary in the last Labour government. Her admissions place further pressure on Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour Leader who served as legal officer for the NCCL from 1976 to offer a full apology for her own links to the paedophile organisation. Miss Hewitt’s frank admission that “got it wrong” contrasts sharply with Miss Harman’s insistence that she has “nothing to apologise for.” Miss Harman has insisted that PIE was confronted by NCCL in 1976 and “pushed them to the margins.” However pressure was building on her to offer a full apology over links. Rob Wilson, the Tory MP for Reading East, said: “It is right and welcome that Patricia Hewitt has apologised. “It makes it hard to see why others involved would not wish to do the same.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10666875/Patricia-Hewitt-called-for-age-of-consent-to-be-lowered-to-ten.html

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Big Tera, WGJKK, WGJKF, it is easy to codemn! What are you doing to nuture our girls within the Sikh panth to keep them within the fold of Sikhi? I trying to do my bit, it's not easy but I certainly won't condemn. Save your condemnation to the so called Sikh leaders in our own religion, politics, economics, entertainment industry etc. etc. who have lead our community astray with their corrupt version of Sikhism & sold down our religion for money & power & still preach the message of caste! Jeevan

The Crown Prosecution Service said it was "one of worst cases of child sexual abuse we've seen". Is this because our Police, CPS, Social Services, Councils are incompetent, corrupt, frightened and or lacking IQ in tackling these heinous crimes head on? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-25679982 BBC News Cambridge 15 January 2014 Last updated at 17:00 Peterborough sex attacks: Two men and three teens guiltyTwo men and three teenage boys have been found guilty of a series of rapes and sexual assaults in Peterborough. Zdeno Mirga, 18, Hassan Abdulla, 33, and three boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were convicted at the Old Bailey. The group targeted five teenage girls and are due to be sentenced on 20 February. Mirga's brother Dusan, 20, David Ziga, 19, and a fourth teenager were acquitted. One of the group's victims, referred to in court as Victim A, was a 13-year-old girl with a severe learning disability. The Crown Prosecution Service said it was "one of worst cases of child sexual abuse we've seen". 'Power over her'The gang congregated at a fried chicken takeaway in Peterborough and carried out their attacks at locations including a children's playground, using what police described as "sophisticated" tactics to groom their victims. After a trial lasting two-and-a-half months, the five were convicted of a total of 18 counts of rape, one of causing or inciting child prostitution, one of engaging in sexual activity with a child, three of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and three of sexual assault. Judge John Bevan QC said: "Because some of the defendants do not speak good enough English, despite having lived here a long time, three interpreters have worked full time during this case, at a cost of over £30,000." He told the jury: "You have sat diligently and paid the closest of attention for weeks on end. "It has been transparently obvious that you have been working very hard." He excused them from further jury service for the next 15 years. Victim A described Zdeno Mirga, known as "Skinny", as the gang's boss, prosecutor Angela Rafferty said. "He encouraged her, often very forcefully indeed, to give others... sex. "He did this using the power he had over her at the time, or threatened her and sometimes he used violence against her. "Skinny took her to parties where she was shared around sexually." The girl told police that Mirga "shared" her because he wanted money to buy cannabis and vodka, the court heard. 'Horrific ordeals'After the verdicts, Det Supt Gary Ridgway, who led the inquiry, said the convictions were part of an ongoing "victim-led" joint investigation between Cambridgeshire Police and Peterborough City Council. Officers and social workers are working to identify young people they believe are at risk of harm before any allegations are even made. Girls can then identify people who were exploiting them, he said. Speaking about this case, Det Supt Gary Ridgway said: "These girls were targeted simply because they were vulnerable. "They were seen as easy targets and exploited by this group of teenage boys and men who abused them for their own sexual gratification." He said the girls were subjected to "horrific" ordeals. "But they have shown incredible strength throughout this process, in particular by giving evidence at court in order to bring these people to justice," he said. "We are committed to helping those girls pick up the pieces and move on with their lives." 'Preying on children'Gillian Beasley, chief executive of Peterborough City Council, said: "Listening to the catalogue of crimes committed against these children has been absolutely devastating and we wish they could have been rescued sooner. "But it was not until our social workers and the police gained the trust of the victims, so they felt able to tell us the full extent of what was happening, that the police were able to arrest the criminals who were responsible. "We are pleased that we have seen justice done today. We would also like to pay tribute to the victims. Without their courage to stand up in court we could never have secured these convictions." She said the council had also started a serious case review. "We will be working closely with that review and we look forward to the findings," she said.

The Crown Prosecution Service said it was "one of worst cases of child sexual abuse we've seen". Is this because our Police, CPS, Social Services, Councils are incompetent, corrupt, frightened and or lacking IQ in tackling these heinous crimes head on? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-25679982 BBC News Cambridge 15 January 2014 Last updated at 17:00 Peterborough sex attacks: Two men and three teens guiltyTwo men and three teenage boys have been found guilty of a series of rapes and sexual assaults in Peterborough. Zdeno Mirga, 18, Hassan Abdulla, 33, and three boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were convicted at the Old Bailey. The group targeted five teenage girls and are due to be sentenced on 20 February. Mirga's brother Dusan, 20, David Ziga, 19, and a fourth teenager were acquitted. One of the group's victims, referred to in court as Victim A, was a 13-year-old girl with a severe learning disability. The Crown Prosecution Service said it was "one of worst cases of child sexual abuse we've seen". 'Power over her'The gang congregated at a fried chicken takeaway in Peterborough and carried out their attacks at locations including a children's playground, using what police described as "sophisticated" tactics to groom their victims. After a trial lasting two-and-a-half months, the five were convicted of a total of 18 counts of rape, one of causing or inciting child prostitution, one of engaging in sexual activity with a child, three of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and three of sexual assault. Judge John Bevan QC said: "Because some of the defendants do not speak good enough English, despite having lived here a long time, three interpreters have worked full time during this case, at a cost of over £30,000." He told the jury: "You have sat diligently and paid the closest of attention for weeks on end. "It has been transparently obvious that you have been working very hard." He excused them from further jury service for the next 15 years. Victim A described Zdeno Mirga, known as "Skinny", as the gang's boss, prosecutor Angela Rafferty said. "He encouraged her, often very forcefully indeed, to give others... sex. "He did this using the power he had over her at the time, or threatened her and sometimes he used violence against her. "Skinny took her to parties where she was shared around sexually." The girl told police that Mirga "shared" her because he wanted money to buy cannabis and vodka, the court heard. 'Horrific ordeals'After the verdicts, Det Supt Gary Ridgway, who led the inquiry, said the convictions were part of an ongoing "victim-led" joint investigation between Cambridgeshire Police and Peterborough City Council. Officers and social workers are working to identify young people they believe are at risk of harm before any allegations are even made. Girls can then identify people who were exploiting them, he said. Speaking about this case, Det Supt Gary Ridgway said: "These girls were targeted simply because they were vulnerable. "They were seen as easy targets and exploited by this group of teenage boys and men who abused them for their own sexual gratification." He said the girls were subjected to "horrific" ordeals. "But they have shown incredible strength throughout this process, in particular by giving evidence at court in order to bring these people to justice," he said. "We are committed to helping those girls pick up the pieces and move on with their lives." 'Preying on children'Gillian Beasley, chief executive of Peterborough City Council, said: "Listening to the catalogue of crimes committed against these children has been absolutely devastating and we wish they could have been rescued sooner. "But it was not until our social workers and the police gained the trust of the victims, so they felt able to tell us the full extent of what was happening, that the police were able to arrest the criminals who were responsible. "We are pleased that we have seen justice done today. We would also like to pay tribute to the victims. Without their courage to stand up in court we could never have secured these convictions." She said the council had also started a serious case review. "We will be working closely with that review and we look forward to the findings," she said.

Could this be one of the reasons why paedophile gangs are allowed to flourish in the UK we have an issue of Police corruption? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-scotland-yards-rotten-core-police-failed-to-address-endemic-corruption-9050224.html# Exclusive: Scotland Yard’s rotten core: Police failed to address ‘endemic corruption’ Organised crime infiltrated police ‘at will’, according to secret report. Top-level internal inquiry identified scores of corrupt individuals working for Met Tom Harper Thursday, 9 January 2014 Organised criminals were able to infiltrate Scotland Yard “at will” by bribing corrupt officers, according to an explosive report leaked to The Independent. The Metropolitan Police file, written in 2002, found Britain’s biggest force suffered “endemic corruption” at the time. Operation Tiberius concluded that syndicates such as the notorious Adams family and the gang led by David Hunt had bribed scores of former and then-serving detectives to access confidential databases; obtain live intelligence on criminal investigations; provide specialist knowledge of surveillance, technical deployment and undercover techniques to help evade prosecution; and even take part in criminal acts such as mass drug importation and money laundering. The strategic intelligence scoping exercise – “ratified by the most senior management” at Scotland Yard – found murder investigations had been infiltrated and sensitive intelligence regarding other organised crime investigations had been leaked, allowing the offenders to escape justice. The author lamented the Met’s inability to root out the problem. More worryingly, he also appeared to question Scotland Yard’s commitment to tackle organised crime corruption in the ranks. “For whatever reason, the current approach is simply to wait for the corruption intelligence to surface and to then react to it,” Tiberius concluded. Later, it added: “These syndicates are organised and all working towards the common goals of making profit, laundering their money, evading prosecution and preventing the forfeiture of their assets. The achievement of these goals is focused and determined; the law enforcement investigation should follow this lead.” Tiberius identified 80 corrupt individuals with links to the police, including 42 then-serving officers and 19 former detectives. It concluded: “Organised crime is currently able to infiltrate the MPS at will.” Research conducted by The Independent suggests that only a tiny number of the officers named as corrupt have been convicted. Keith Vaz, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: “I am deeply concerned by the findings of this report. It is vital that the police have the utmost integrity. The public must be able to trust them to do their job and ensure justice prevails. “The Met have made vast progress rooting out corruption in the force in the last 20 years but it would appear more may still need to be done.” Mr Vaz added he would be writing to the current Met Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, to “ensure that these allegations have been fully investigated and to confirm that he is satisfied that corruption no longer exists”. The report, produced by a team led by the former Met assistant commissioner Andy Hayman, paints a shocking picture of security at the time inside Scotland Yard, which had responsibility for the UK’s counter-terror operations. Working in secret, the Tiberius team drew on multiple sources of information including covert informants, intelligence from telephone intercepts, briefings from the security services and thousands of historic police files. One senior investigating officer interviewed by the inquiry said at the time: “I feel that… I cannot carry out an ethical murder investigation without the fear of it being compromised.” In one case, the report names an alleged corrupt officer who was inexplicably put in charge of a team investigating a gangland murder linked to organised crime. Other officers Tiberius says were known to be corrupt were also identified as working on inquiries into organised crime, many of which resulted in compromised investigations and, in some cases, failed prosecutions. Some relationships between Met officers and the criminal underworld were so close that in one case named police officers were identified as co-owning properties and even racehorses with a man suspected of being one of Britain’s most hardened gangsters. In one shocking case, a police statement taken from a highly sensitive witness was found in the safe of a nightclub controlled by the Adams family – described by Operation Tiberius as the “major crime family in north London”. The report stated the named witness was helping police try to solve the murder of Michael Olymbious, who the police believed had been killed after losing £1.5m of ecstasy pills owned by the syndicate. Tiberius also found a secret informant – codenamed “Lee Paul” – providing intelligence on the Adams family and the corrupt police in its pay to his handler at the Met, who appears to have been a man of integrity. However, Paul’s highly sensitive role was later uncovered by other officers and his activities became more widely known, causing uproar among the corrupt elements inside the Yard. But far from seeing this as evidence that the police were finally on to them, one rogue detective inspector was so unperturbed that he felt confident enough to brazenly threaten one of Paul’s handlers with reprisals. The ability of organised criminals to target highly sensitive police witnesses and informants was the subject last July of evidence given to Parliament by one of the Met’s most senior officers. When questioned by the Home Affairs Committee over a separate case of corrupt police officers targeting protected witnesses, revealed in The Independent, Assistant Commissioner Cressida <banned word filter activated> said: “I am not aware of anything in the Metropolitan Police that has resulted in infiltration thereof, but it is a risk that we are constantly trying to prevent materialising, of course, because people’s lives are at risk.” The Met’s inability to tackle the corruption of police officers by organised crime syndicates is laid bare in some of Tiberius’ recommendations. Although the report suggests a range of strategies to combat corruption, including establishing a dedicated task force, it also recommends merely “removing alleged corrupt officers from specialist departments back to borough postings to disrupt networks” and putting troublemakers “together on one particular unit to enable a strong manager to keep an eye on them”. A former senior officer, who recently retired from Scotland Yard, told The Independent: “Nothing has changed. The Met is still every bit as corrupt as it was back then.” One of the few successful investigations reviewed by Tiberius was Operation Greyhound, a long-running inquiry that found that two detectives had helped a known criminal hunt a money-launderer over a £600,000 debt. Martin Morgan and Declan Costello were paid £50,000 for helping Robert Kean, a builder with a string of previous convictions, find his former business associate, Andrew Smith. During their trial in 2002, the Old Bailey heard that Kean and another criminal, Carl Wood, spoke of torturing Smith and putting his body in a car crusher if he could not pay his debt. At the heart of the scandal was the friendship of Morgan and Kean, a suspected drugs dealer. When Kean wanted to find Smith, he turned to Morgan, who used intelligence databases available to Met detectives to try to track down and entrap him. Kean said Morgan “was good at his job” and would be paid “50gs”– £50,000 – to act as his bounty hunter. Morgan, Kean and Wood pleaded guilty to conspiring to unlawfully and injuriously imprison a man and to detain him against his will. Costello plead guilty to conspiracy to assault, causing actual bodily harm. Asked to comment on the Tiberius report, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said: “The Metropolitan Police Service will not tolerate any behaviour by our officers and staff which could damage the trust placed in police by the public. “We are determined to pursue corruption in all its forms and with all possible vigour. “The dedicated Anti-Corruption Command, part of the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards, proactively investigates any allegations or intelligence relating to either corrupt police officers and staff [or] those that may seek to corrupt our officers’ staff. “There is no complacency in the Met’s determination to succeed in this task.” Botched jobs: Compromised murder investigations Kenneth Beagle Thought to have been killed by members of a named organised crime syndicate over a “failed drug importation”. Tiberius names a former Met police officer whom it says “has always been considered to be one of the most corrupt officers serving in the MPS”. The report claims this former officer contacted his “good friend”, a detective sergeant, on the investigating team whom Tiberius says “had previously been the subject of at least three corruption inquiries” yet was allowed to work on a gangland murder investigation. For reasons that are unclear, the Met formally “authorised” the meeting between the pair which “legitimised the access into the murder inquiry”. Tiberius notes that “shortly after the meeting” the alleged organised crime boss “knew that the investigation team considered him a suspect”. Ricky Rayner A suspected drug dealer who fled to Spain was one of the prime suspects for the murder of Ricky Rayner in 2001 and asked a man whom police suspected of leading a drug dealing syndicate to check whether he was still wanted in the UK. Within days, this man was able to find out the status of his associate following telephone contact with a police officer. The report stated a Police National Computer check was obtained from Bethnal Green police station. The suspected gangster was able to give the suspect the “all clear”, apparently leading to his return to Britain. Tiberius also identified “regular contact” between another suspected corrupt detective and a senior member of the investigation into the murder. Again, the investigating officer had previously been identified as possibly corrupt – yet had never been prosecuted and was put in charge of a sensitive investigation.

Could this be one of the reasons why paedophile gangs are allowed to flourish in the UK we have an issue of Police corruption? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-scotland-yards-rotten-core-police-failed-to-address-endemic-corruption-9050224.html# Exclusive: Scotland Yard’s rotten core: Police failed to address ‘endemic corruption’ Organised crime infiltrated police ‘at will’, according to secret report. Top-level internal inquiry identified scores of corrupt individuals working for Met Tom Harper Thursday, 9 January 2014 Organised criminals were able to infiltrate Scotland Yard “at will” by bribing corrupt officers, according to an explosive report leaked to The Independent. The Metropolitan Police file, written in 2002, found Britain’s biggest force suffered “endemic corruption” at the time. Operation Tiberius concluded that syndicates such as the notorious Adams family and the gang led by David Hunt had bribed scores of former and then-serving detectives to access confidential databases; obtain live intelligence on criminal investigations; provide specialist knowledge of surveillance, technical deployment and undercover techniques to help evade prosecution; and even take part in criminal acts such as mass drug importation and money laundering. The strategic intelligence scoping exercise – “ratified by the most senior management” at Scotland Yard – found murder investigations had been infiltrated and sensitive intelligence regarding other organised crime investigations had been leaked, allowing the offenders to escape justice. The author lamented the Met’s inability to root out the problem. More worryingly, he also appeared to question Scotland Yard’s commitment to tackle organised crime corruption in the ranks. “For whatever reason, the current approach is simply to wait for the corruption intelligence to surface and to then react to it,” Tiberius concluded. Later, it added: “These syndicates are organised and all working towards the common goals of making profit, laundering their money, evading prosecution and preventing the forfeiture of their assets. The achievement of these goals is focused and determined; the law enforcement investigation should follow this lead.” Tiberius identified 80 corrupt individuals with links to the police, including 42 then-serving officers and 19 former detectives. It concluded: “Organised crime is currently able to infiltrate the MPS at will.” Research conducted by The Independent suggests that only a tiny number of the officers named as corrupt have been convicted. Keith Vaz, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: “I am deeply concerned by the findings of this report. It is vital that the police have the utmost integrity. The public must be able to trust them to do their job and ensure justice prevails. “The Met have made vast progress rooting out corruption in the force in the last 20 years but it would appear more may still need to be done.” Mr Vaz added he would be writing to the current Met Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, to “ensure that these allegations have been fully investigated and to confirm that he is satisfied that corruption no longer exists”. The report, produced by a team led by the former Met assistant commissioner Andy Hayman, paints a shocking picture of security at the time inside Scotland Yard, which had responsibility for the UK’s counter-terror operations. Working in secret, the Tiberius team drew on multiple sources of information including covert informants, intelligence from telephone intercepts, briefings from the security services and thousands of historic police files. One senior investigating officer interviewed by the inquiry said at the time: “I feel that… I cannot carry out an ethical murder investigation without the fear of it being compromised.” In one case, the report names an alleged corrupt officer who was inexplicably put in charge of a team investigating a gangland murder linked to organised crime. Other officers Tiberius says were known to be corrupt were also identified as working on inquiries into organised crime, many of which resulted in compromised investigations and, in some cases, failed prosecutions. Some relationships between Met officers and the criminal underworld were so close that in one case named police officers were identified as co-owning properties and even racehorses with a man suspected of being one of Britain’s most hardened gangsters. In one shocking case, a police statement taken from a highly sensitive witness was found in the safe of a nightclub controlled by the Adams family – described by Operation Tiberius as the “major crime family in north London”. The report stated the named witness was helping police try to solve the murder of Michael Olymbious, who the police believed had been killed after losing £1.5m of ecstasy pills owned by the syndicate. Tiberius also found a secret informant – codenamed “Lee Paul” – providing intelligence on the Adams family and the corrupt police in its pay to his handler at the Met, who appears to have been a man of integrity. However, Paul’s highly sensitive role was later uncovered by other officers and his activities became more widely known, causing uproar among the corrupt elements inside the Yard. But far from seeing this as evidence that the police were finally on to them, one rogue detective inspector was so unperturbed that he felt confident enough to brazenly threaten one of Paul’s handlers with reprisals. The ability of organised criminals to target highly sensitive police witnesses and informants was the subject last July of evidence given to Parliament by one of the Met’s most senior officers. When questioned by the Home Affairs Committee over a separate case of corrupt police officers targeting protected witnesses, revealed in The Independent, Assistant Commissioner Cressida <banned word filter activated> said: “I am not aware of anything in the Metropolitan Police that has resulted in infiltration thereof, but it is a risk that we are constantly trying to prevent materialising, of course, because people’s lives are at risk.” The Met’s inability to tackle the corruption of police officers by organised crime syndicates is laid bare in some of Tiberius’ recommendations. Although the report suggests a range of strategies to combat corruption, including establishing a dedicated task force, it also recommends merely “removing alleged corrupt officers from specialist departments back to borough postings to disrupt networks” and putting troublemakers “together on one particular unit to enable a strong manager to keep an eye on them”. A former senior officer, who recently retired from Scotland Yard, told The Independent: “Nothing has changed. The Met is still every bit as corrupt as it was back then.” One of the few successful investigations reviewed by Tiberius was Operation Greyhound, a long-running inquiry that found that two detectives had helped a known criminal hunt a money-launderer over a £600,000 debt. Martin Morgan and Declan Costello were paid £50,000 for helping Robert Kean, a builder with a string of previous convictions, find his former business associate, Andrew Smith. During their trial in 2002, the Old Bailey heard that Kean and another criminal, Carl Wood, spoke of torturing Smith and putting his body in a car crusher if he could not pay his debt. At the heart of the scandal was the friendship of Morgan and Kean, a suspected drugs dealer. When Kean wanted to find Smith, he turned to Morgan, who used intelligence databases available to Met detectives to try to track down and entrap him. Kean said Morgan “was good at his job” and would be paid “50gs”– £50,000 – to act as his bounty hunter. Morgan, Kean and Wood pleaded guilty to conspiring to unlawfully and injuriously imprison a man and to detain him against his will. Costello plead guilty to conspiracy to assault, causing actual bodily harm. Asked to comment on the Tiberius report, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said: “The Metropolitan Police Service will not tolerate any behaviour by our officers and staff which could damage the trust placed in police by the public. “We are determined to pursue corruption in all its forms and with all possible vigour. “The dedicated Anti-Corruption Command, part of the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards, proactively investigates any allegations or intelligence relating to either corrupt police officers and staff [or] those that may seek to corrupt our officers’ staff. “There is no complacency in the Met’s determination to succeed in this task.” Botched jobs: Compromised murder investigations Kenneth Beagle Thought to have been killed by members of a named organised crime syndicate over a “failed drug importation”. Tiberius names a former Met police officer whom it says “has always been considered to be one of the most corrupt officers serving in the MPS”. The report claims this former officer contacted his “good friend”, a detective sergeant, on the investigating team whom Tiberius says “had previously been the subject of at least three corruption inquiries” yet was allowed to work on a gangland murder investigation. For reasons that are unclear, the Met formally “authorised” the meeting between the pair which “legitimised the access into the murder inquiry”. Tiberius notes that “shortly after the meeting” the alleged organised crime boss “knew that the investigation team considered him a suspect”. Ricky Rayner A suspected drug dealer who fled to Spain was one of the prime suspects for the murder of Ricky Rayner in 2001 and asked a man whom police suspected of leading a drug dealing syndicate to check whether he was still wanted in the UK. Within days, this man was able to find out the status of his associate following telephone contact with a police officer. The report stated a Police National Computer check was obtained from Bethnal Green police station. The suspected gangster was able to give the suspect the “all clear”, apparently leading to his return to Britain. Tiberius also identified “regular contact” between another suspected corrupt detective and a senior member of the investigation into the murder. Again, the investigating officer had previously been identified as possibly corrupt – yet had never been prosecuted and was put in charge of a sensitive investigation.

This is the man who earned between £195,000-£199,999 as head of the CPS which failed to tackle the grooming gangs. It looks like he will join the morally bankrupt Labour Party who have a few issues of its own. http://labour25.com/2012/08/05/labour-councillor-for-leicester-manish-sood-found-guilty-of-grooming-school-kids-for-sex/ Politics 28 December 2013 Last updated at 09:36 Keir Starmer heads Labour's victim treatment reviewFormer chief prosecutor Keir Starmer is to advise Labour on the best way to protect rape victims and abused children from harrowing questioning during court cases. He said it was a "golden opportunity" to change the law, while Labour called the current code of conduct followed by barristers "toothless". The review follows several complaints about the questioning of crime victims. The government said it had already "considerably improved" the system. Violinist Frances Andrade killed herself after giving evidence against former teacher Michael Brewer, who was later found guilty of indecently assaulting his pupil. Concerns were also raised about how the child victims of a paedophile ring in Oxfordshire were questioned, leading to calls for pre-recorded cross-examinations and barristers to undergo compulsory training. 'Victims' law' Mr Starmer, who stood down as director of public prosecutions earlier this year, said he would advise Labour on introducing legislation - if the party won power at the 2015 general election - to give greater protection to vulnerable witnesses in court. He acknowledged that the current government was addressing the treatment of victims but insisted that a "faster shift" was needed to enshrine their rights in law. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The more vulnerable you are as a victim or witness, the less able our criminal justice system is to protect you." "Most victims, particularly vulnerable victims, don't have the confidence to come forward. Most of them have a pretty awful journey through the court process and nearly all of them, at the end of it, say they will never do it again." 'Troubling case'Referring to the treatment in court of celebrity chef Nigella Lawson during the recent trial of her two former assistants, Mr Starmer said it had been a "troubling case". "In any courtroom up and down England and Wales you will have similar experiences day in, day out," he said. "I think particularly of the child sexual abuse cases and so-called grooming cases. In those cases victims were put through a very great ordeal and so were witnesses so it is troubling. "Our criminal justice system has been set up as a straight fight between the prosecution and defendant and victims and witnesses have had a walk on part. We need to rethink that and make sure that we do have a system fit for victims and witnesses, and we don't at the moment." Asked about reports that his new advisory role was a prelude to a new political career with Labour, Mr Starmer said he was "considering a number of options". The changes proposed by Mr Starmer could also see victims of crime given "minimum standards of service" and a single point of contact so they find it easier to get information about the progress of their cases. Mr Starmer's task force also includes Labour peer Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, whose son Stephen was murdered, and Peter Neyroud, former chief constable of Thames Valley Police and a criminologist at Cambridge University. 'Confusing and inadequate'Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said the proposals, if implemented, would give the public greater confidence in the criminal justice system. He said: "At the moment, there are a variety of codes and charters across various government agencies which are toothless, confusing and inadequate." Mr Khan added: "Victims represent some of society's most vulnerable people. That's why we need nothing short of a transformation if we are to deliver a criminal justice service that supports members of the public who have been innocent victims of crime through no fault of their own." A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "Government has considerably improved the support given to vulnerable victims and witnesses in court, including trialling pre-recorded cross examination, strengthening support for child witnesses and investigating how we might reduce the distress caused from multiple cross examination. "We have also made sure that, for the first time, victims of the most serious crimes, and all vulnerable and intimidated victims, get vital support like pre-trial therapy and counselling." He added: "A new victims' code introduced in December also sets out in plain English what people should expect from the moment they report a crime to the end of a trial and tells them who to demand it from if they are not offered it. It also gives victims the option to read out their personal statement and tell the court how crime has affected them for the very first time." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25528966?print=true

http://www.theguardi...ce-errors/print Rochdale sex-grooming gangs able to flourish due to police errors says reportGreater Manchester police failed vulnerable girls in multiple ways, from lack of oversight to use of untrained CID staff Rajeev Syal The Guardian, Thursday 19 December 2013 20.37 GMT A Rochdale shop displays a bulletin on the arrest of nine men on child sexual exploitation charges in 2011. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images A catalogue of police failures allowed sex-grooming gangs to flourish in Rochdale, according to a damning, leaked report that is published on Friday. Among the failings identified in the 300-page report, untrained detectives were used to investigate child exploitation and there was a lack of resources and oversight. The serious case review was announced by Rochdale Council last year after nine Asian men were convicted of the systematic grooming and sexual abuse of white girls in Greater Manchester. The findings of the review have resulted in an acknowledgement by Greater Manchester police [GMP] that the force has let down a number of vulnerable girls who were groomed by gangs for sexual abuse. An internal police investigation, highlighted in the serious case review, also found a failure to recognise abuse. The internal police review found that: • Officers failed to challenge a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute. • There was a lack of resources and managerial support for the investigations, initially led by CID, despite formal requests. • Detectives without training in child sexual exploitation were used to interview potential victims. • There was a lack of managerial oversight for investigations in 2008 and 2009. • There was a lack of strategies to respond to frequent "runaways", which allowed them to return to their abusers. • There was a recognition that there may have been discriminatory attitudes among police officers towards the victims. But despite the list of acknowledged problems, the police made just one recommendation – that the force's public protection division should ensure continued participation in Project Phoenix, which has been set up to direct a multi-agency approach to child sexual exploitation in the region. The serious case review panel raised questions about the police response and made two further recommendations: that GMP should establish a system to monitor and review how it escalates safeguarding cases, and that it commits to maintaining a child sexual exploitation team and to working proactively with Rochdale council. Police also admitted that of 40 meetings to discuss child protection for one of the victims, there is no record of police attendance or involvement at any of them. The report argues that "this represents a serious weakness for the police" and that concerns about police attendance were raised in 2009. "As a result, the review has been left with an incomplete and unsatisfactory picture of the involvement of the police in the routine child protection processes," it concludes. Simon Danczuk, the local Labour MP, said police need to show better leadership. "Senior police officers keep talking about deploying more resources, but they're sending out untrained officers who cannot win the trust of victims. We need better leadership on this issue," he said. The serious case review was announced in September 2012, four months after the grooming gang was convicted. The men were jailed for between four and 19 years for the abuse of five girls, some as young as 13. It is believed there may be up to 50 victims in all. The trial resulted in a national debate over the role of gangs of largely Pakistani men in grooming white girls. The police and local authority in Rochdale came in for heavy criticism when details emerged of what had been happening. The men, aged between 24 and 59, plied victims, who hung around two takeaways in the area, with drink and drugs before the girls were "passed around" for sex. One girl, aged 15 at the time and who was repeatedly raped, said in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that after she became pregnant, local social services told her parents she was a "prostitute" and that she had simply made a "lifestyle choice". The girl had also reported the abuse to a police officer – who simply yawned. One police whistleblower welcomed the report but commented that it had only scratched the surface of problems in the force. Margaret Oliver, a detective constable within GMP who worked on the Rochdale grooming cases but resigned last year over the way the police treated the victims, said the report went only part of the way to exposing the mistakes within the force. She said: "I have spoken to victims in the last week who still come face to face with their abusers in Rochdale because the police have failed to pursue them. "If GMP had done its job properly, they would not be walking the streets. It was my job to persuade some of these young girls to come to trust the police to being on their side. "But one of those who came forward – who was subjected to multiple rapes and was brave enough to identify her abusers in an ID parade – was added to the indictment as an offender as a tactical 'option' by the force," she said. Sir Peter Fahy, the chief constable for Greater Manchester, said: "I think we all know that [child sexual exploitation] is the most complex and challenging area of policing right now and we are near the very beginning of a long journey in our understanding of it. It is GMP's top priority, and the welfare of these victims should now be at the very forefront of everything we do. "The failings detailed in this report are unacceptable, and we should never lose sight of the fact that we have let down some innocent victims." Related information UK newsCrime · Greater Manchester ·

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/19/rochdale-sex-grooming-gangs-police-errors/print Rochdale sex-grooming gangs able to flourish due to police errors says reportGreater Manchester police failed vulnerable girls in multiple ways, from lack of oversight to use of untrained CID staff Rajeev Syal The Guardian, Thursday 19 December 2013 20.37 GMT A Rochdale shop displays a bulletin on the arrest of nine men on child sexual exploitation charges in 2011. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images A catalogue of police failures allowed sex-grooming gangs to flourish in Rochdale, according to a damning, leaked report that is published on Friday. Among the failings identified in the 300-page report, untrained detectives were used to investigate child exploitation and there was a lack of resources and oversight. The serious case review was announced by Rochdale Council last year after nine Asian men were convicted of the systematic grooming and sexual abuse of white girls in Greater Manchester. The findings of the review have resulted in an acknowledgement by Greater Manchester police [GMP] that the force has let down a number of vulnerable girls who were groomed by gangs for sexual abuse. An internal police investigation, highlighted in the serious case review, also found a failure to recognise abuse. The internal police review found that: • Officers failed to challenge a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute. • There was a lack of resources and managerial support for the investigations, initially led by CID, despite formal requests. • Detectives without training in child sexual exploitation were used to interview potential victims. • There was a lack of managerial oversight for investigations in 2008 and 2009. • There was a lack of strategies to respond to frequent "runaways", which allowed them to return to their abusers. • There was a recognition that there may have been discriminatory attitudes among police officers towards the victims. But despite the list of acknowledged problems, the police made just one recommendation – that the force's public protection division should ensure continued participation in Project Phoenix, which has been set up to direct a multi-agency approach to child sexual exploitation in the region. The serious case review panel raised questions about the police response and made two further recommendations: that GMP should establish a system to monitor and review how it escalates safeguarding cases, and that it commits to maintaining a child sexual exploitation team and to working proactively with Rochdale council. Police also admitted that of 40 meetings to discuss child protection for one of the victims, there is no record of police attendance or involvement at any of them. The report argues that "this represents a serious weakness for the police" and that concerns about police attendance were raised in 2009. "As a result, the review has been left with an incomplete and unsatisfactory picture of the involvement of the police in the routine child protection processes," it concludes. Simon Danczuk, the local Labour MP, said police need to show better leadership. "Senior police officers keep talking about deploying more resources, but they're sending out untrained officers who cannot win the trust of victims. We need better leadership on this issue," he said. The serious case review was announced in September 2012, four months after the grooming gang was convicted. The men were jailed for between four and 19 years for the abuse of five girls, some as young as 13. It is believed there may be up to 50 victims in all. The trial resulted in a national debate over the role of gangs of largely Pakistani men in grooming white girls. The police and local authority in Rochdale came in for heavy criticism when details emerged of what had been happening. The men, aged between 24 and 59, plied victims, who hung around two takeaways in the area, with drink and drugs before the girls were "passed around" for sex. One girl, aged 15 at the time and who was repeatedly raped, said in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that after she became pregnant, local social services told her parents she was a "prostitute" and that she had simply made a "lifestyle choice". The girl had also reported the abuse to a police officer – who simply yawned. One police whistleblower welcomed the report but commented that it had only scratched the surface of problems in the force. Margaret Oliver, a detective constable within GMP who worked on the Rochdale grooming cases but resigned last year over the way the police treated the victims, said the report went only part of the way to exposing the mistakes within the force. She said: "I have spoken to victims in the last week who still come face to face with their abusers in Rochdale because the police have failed to pursue them. "If GMP had done its job properly, they would not be walking the streets. It was my job to persuade some of these young girls to come to trust the police to being on their side. "But one of those who came forward – who was subjected to multiple rapes and was brave enough to identify her abusers in an ID parade – was added to the indictment as an offender as a tactical 'option' by the force," she said. Sir Peter Fahy, the chief constable for Greater Manchester, said: "I think we all know that [child sexual exploitation] is the most complex and challenging area of policing right now and we are near the very beginning of a long journey in our understanding of it. It is GMP's top priority, and the welfare of these victims should now be at the very forefront of everything we do. "The failings detailed in this report are unacceptable, and we should never lose sight of the fact that we have let down some innocent victims." Related information UK newsCrime · Greater Manchester ·

Now we know why the Police 'Still Target Other Crimes Above Child Grooming' they don't want to end up arresting their own colleagues\friends!!! Police sergeant pleads guilty to abusing teenage girlA BRITISH Transport Police sergeant has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Mick Defries, 58, of Barnham, appeared at Lewes Crown Court today (December 12) for a preliminary hearing and pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault of a female child under 13. He has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on January 10. A British Transport Police spokesman said: “BTP can confirm that Sergeant Defries, who has served with the force for ten years, has been suspended from duty following his arrest and charge by Sussex Police. “BTP’s professional standard’s department is assisting Sussex Police with their investigation.” http://www.chichester.co.uk/news/top-stories/latest/police-sergeant-pleads-guilty-to-abusing-teenage-girl-1-5746473

I Britain we raised the age of consent to 16 to protect children from prostitution since 1885! This so called Professor is a disgrace to the interests of children themselves. Has the Professor taken into consideration grooming gangs, has he spoken to the children who are victims of paedophiles? This is a big No. Sex is not just a physical act it is a mental act as well! The victims of paedophiles with so much mental trauma begin to view the abuse as 'normal'. Has the Professor worked out what is then considered consensual or rape! This is a blurring of legal & moral lines. How do we as adults what is right & wrong and yet alone for a child to make these huge physical & mental decisions? I'm calling upon this professor to resign and disappear from public life. I'm a liberal at heart but when it comes to children we have to protect them from their own follies sometimes! My argument is for the age of consent to be raised to 18. A 16 year old I would argues whilst they may have the physical capacity have they the mental capacity? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24976929 17 November 2013 Last updated at 08:42 Call to consider lowering age of consent for sex to 15Lowering the age of consent for sex to 15 should be considered by ministers, a leading public health expert has urged. Faculty of Public Health president Prof John Ashton said the move would make it easier for 15-year-olds to get sexual health advice from the NHS. Speaking to the Sunday Times, Prof Ashton called for a national debate on the issue. Children's charity the NSPCC said it wanted to see the evidence for Prof Ashton's claims before any discussion. Prof Ashton said society sent "confused" signals about when sex was permitted. Official figures suggest that up to a third of teenagers have sex before the present age of consent of 16. Prof Ashton said lowering the age by a year could "draw a line in the sand" against sex at 14 or younger. 'Recognise the facts' The professor said: "We need a debate here. It's time the adults started talking about the situation to take these enormous pressures off children and young people from becoming sexually active too early. "Also to recognise the facts of what's going on by the age of 14 or 15 so that we can respond helpfully to them and support them on this journey into adult life." He added: "I suspect we might be better off with it at 15 because the teachers and people who are in contact with young people would feel on a firmer footing pointing them in the right direction where they can get advice and contraception to protect their physical health from disease and other problems." The Faculty of Public Health, part of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, gives independent advice to the government. David Tucker, head of policy at the NSPCC, said it would be prepared to engage in debate on the issue after considering Prof Ashton's arguments. But Mr Tucker added: "Has there really been a significant change in the amount of young people having sex over the past 20 or 30 years? If it has changed, then is reducing the age of consent the most sensible way to deal with it?" The age of consent in the UK for any kind of sexual activity is 16 for gay and straight men and women. In England and Wales, the age of sexual consent for women has been set at 16 since 1885, when campaigners fought to raise it from 13 to prevent child prostitution. Other countries have set the legal age for sexual consent at anything from 12 to 20. In 2001, the age of consent for gay men in England and Wales was reduced from 18 to 16, bringing it in line with heterosexuals for the first time. Lesbians, who until then faced no statutory age of consent, were also included in that legislation. Scotland and Northern Ireland made 16 the age of consent for gay and straight men and women later that decade.

I have read Girl A: The truth about the Rochdale sex ring by the victim who stopped them by Anonymous (Girl A) (10 Oct 2013). What comes through very clearly in the book is that the Police, CPS, Social Services etc. etc. did not undertake their legal duties & responsibilities to the victims of the paedophile gangs. The body of evidence was there from the outset when the victims first had contact with the various legal bodies and were providing statements & evidence of what was going on in their lives. Criminal prosecutions need to be brought forward for individuals from the Police, CPS, Social Services etc. etc. for criminal negligence and a dereliction of duty. Sorry does not cut it and we the good people of Britain citizens DO NOT accept their apology & failings from the authorities. Can we as a community now bring pressure to bear to see individuals from Police, CPS, Social Services stand in the dock and face criminal proceedings for negligence. Are we going to carry on paying for individuals through our tax system for failing to protect the children from the paedophiles, are we content Police officers will be promoted in the future when he or she failed to take seriously a child evidence that they were a victim of paedophilia gangs, are you content a CPS lawyer will carry on working as a barrister/lawyer earning vast sums of money when their initial decision was not to pursue the allegations in court to bring these paedophiles to justice, are we content that Social Services labelled these children as prostitutes and they chose this lifestyle, criminal prosecutions NOW!

Sorry does not cut it, criminal charges now for the Police in their negligence! Every child has a WaheGuru given right to be protected from rapists! This will only stop when the authorities are in the dock, found guilty and serve long jail sentences for their negligence! Write to your local MP NOW! http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/greater-manchester-police-apologise-victim-6287545 Greater Manchester Police apologise to victim of Rochdale sex grooming gang 8 Nov 2013 20:52 Many of her abusers plied the troubled 15-year-old with vodka and cannabis before committing their offences, which took place in 2008 and 2009 Share on print Share on email (L-R) Abdul Huk, Chola Chansa, Freddie Kendakumana, Mohammed Rafiq Abubaker Police have apologised to an underage sex abuse victim in Rochdale for failings in their initial probe into five men who exploited her "profound vulnerability". Many of her abusers plied the troubled 15-year-old with vodka and cannabis before committing their offences, which took place in 2008 and 2009, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard. The majority of the defendants were only arrested last year after the grim portrayal of a largely Pakistani-heritage child sex ring preying on white girls in the town emerged into the public domain in a separate trial at Liverpool Crown Court which attracted huge publicity. But one of the offenders, Congolese refugee Freddie Kendakumana, was first arrested and interviewed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in December 2008 after the girl - also white - complained to police he had raped her the month before. The girl was told at the time by an interviewing male officer that it was important not to have any future dealings with Kendakumana while the investigation continued but she later confessed she had bumped into him at a flat. Soon after, she went on to have consensual sex with his friend when still aged 15, although that man knew she was underage. In a later interview, she explained: "I spoke to the police about it. The police said don't go back there. If you go back up there, we don't have a case, so I said I won't. "I went on to see Freddie in a flat. I didn't really speak to him, I had a drink and then came home." The investigation against Kendakamuna, 27, was dropped before he was rearrested years later and finally charged, along with his co-defendants, in October 2012 - nearly four years after the girl made the initial complaint as several men went on to abuse her in the intervening period. By that time the girl had undergone numerous video-recorded police interviews from the end of 2008 to October 2011, totalling more than 23 hours. Last month Kendakumana was convicted of raping her. Today after reporting restrictions were lifted on the case, Assistant Chief Constable Dawn Copley, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "We must acknowledge that there were some failings with the initial investigation carried out by Rochdale division into a complaint of rape by the victim in 2008. "The suspect was arrested on suspicion of rape, but he was released without charge. The case was investigated and the officer who supervised the investigation took the decision to discontinue the case. "In 2009 the victim in this case made a number of disclosures to the police about some of the defendants in this case. "A decision was made to file the information gathered during this interview as intelligence and the decision was supported by the officer's line manager." A review of the probe by GMP's sexual crime unit highlighted a number of failings, Ms Copley added. The matter was referred to its Professional Standards Branch in March 2011 and "formal management action" was given to two officers. The investigation has also been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. "We accept that there was more that could, and should, have been done to protect and support the victim," said Ms Copley. "We have apologised to her for the delay in dealing with her case and reiterate that apology publicly today. Once the criminal proceedings are at an end we will talk to her further about what went wrong. "Lessons have been learnt. The education of all officers has now improved to such an extent that they now see CSE (child sexual exploitation) as part of a wider pattern of behaviour and offending. Therefore, reports of abuse are no longer taken in isolation and treated as stand-alone crimes. This new approach includes much earlier involvement with key partners such as Children's Services and the Crown Prosecution Service." The victim was first prompted to go to the police in 2008 on the advice of a health support worker when she disclosed that Kendakumana was sexually forcing himself on her. But social care and health professionals dealing with the youngster failed to pass on her other confessions in 2008 and 2009 that she was having consensual sexual contact with a string of older men whom she labelled "boyfriends". In a statement, Lesley Mort, of Rochdale Council's independent safeguarding children board, said: "We are pleased with the verdict announced in this historic child sexual abuse case. "This has been a challenging trial and we regret what the young person in this trial has had to endure but we are confident that all partner agencies are now more able to intervene earlier and more robustly when cases of concern are brought to their attention." The victim, now aged 20, gave evidence against the defendants in two trials. Reporting restrictions were lifted on both proceedings by Judge Jonathan Foster QC at today's conclusion of the second trial. Last month in the first trial, Kendakumana, of Illminster, Rochdale, was convicted of rape and sexual activity with a child. He was cleared of a second count of rape. Two other men, Mohammed Rafiq Abubaker, 25, of Freehold, Rochdale, and takeaway worker Roheez Khan, 27, of Ashfield Road, Rochdale, were found guilty of sexual activity with a child. Khan was also convicted of witness intimidation. A fourth man, Chola Chansa, 33, of Illminster, Rochdale, pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child just before the first trial started. In the second trial, taxi driver Abdul Huk, 37, of Ouldfield Close, Rochdale, was found guilty yesterday of sexual activity with a child. All five men will be sentenced on December 20. They were all bailed but told to expect custodial sentences. Today the jury failed to reach a verdict on Mohammed Ali, 28, of Rochdale, on an allegation of sexual activity with a child. The jury in the first trial also failed to reach a verdict on the same allegation against Mr Ali and, as a consequence, the Crown decided not to proceed with a third trial and has asked for the matter to lie on file. Asrar Haider, 39, of Rochdale, was cleared by the second jury of sexual activity and inciting sexual activity with a child, while another defendant, Anjam Masood, 31, from Rochdale, was cleared of sexual activity and inciting sexual activity with a child on the direction of the judge after the prosecution said it was no longer offering evidence against him. Charges were also dropped before the first trial against a 34-year-old man who had been accused of engaging in sexual activity with the girl in a car when she was as young as 12 or 13. In May last year, nine men were jailed for the systematic grooming and sexual abuse of five white girls - aged between 13 and 15 - in Heywood and Rochdale. The trial at Liverpool Crown Court resulted in a national debate over the role of gangs of largely Pakistani-heritage men in grooming white girls. A subsequent report from child safeguarding chiefs ruled that social workers, police and prosecutors had missed opportunities to stop the exploitation in Heywood and Rochdale. Although the girl in the latest court proceedings, who is also white, was being abused at about the same time, she had no known links with any of the defendants who were jailed at Liverpool Crown Court. The convicted defendants in the Manchester trials also came from a range of nationalities - Kendakumana and Chansa are from Congo, Abubaker is a Kurd, while Huk and Khan are believed to be of Pakistani heritage. Several knew each other but it was not the prosecution case that they all acted in an organised manner. Opening the case against all the defendants, prosecutor Neil Usher said: "It is the prosecution's case that leading the chaotic life that she had for some time by the age of 15, she was vulnerable to being groomed and exploited by those who correctly perceived she would be easy to flatter and impress with free and plentiful drink, cannabis and just as importantly, a level of attention and affection that she craved and felt she had lacked in her difficult early life. "She repeatedly and regularly returned to a number of older men all of whom sexually exploited her and some of whom physically abused her, despite her being advised and supported by health care and social workers. "The risk-taking and potentially harming positions she regularly put herself in was an indication of the extent of her profound vulnerablity and emotional immaturity."

Why haven't the Police, CPS, Social Services, Councils, Politicians, Churches etc. etc. been charged with criminal negligence? The authorities turned a blind eye, they are not better than the paedophiles. Keir Starmer should be charged with criminal negligence now, he was in charge of the CPS when the decision was taken not to prosecute in the Girl A case in 2009, Greater Manchester Police should stand in the dock alongside Keir Starmer, Social Services, the local councils, etc. etc!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/senior-officers-still-target-other-crimes-above-child-grooming-8932247.html Senior officers 'still target other crimes above child grooming' Approach 'varied significantly' across the force's four districts - Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Jonathan Brown Monday, 11 November 2013 Senior officers from the police force that was heavily criticised over its handling of child sexual exploitation cases continue to prioritise burglary and vehicle crime over grooming victims, a report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) found. The watchdog expressed "serious concern" over the actions of South Yorkshire Police which it ordered to improve with inspectors describing an inconsistent approach to child protection at local levels of the force. Chief constable David Crompton was told to "get a grip" on child sex offending in Rotherham by senior MPs last year following claims of widespread abuse of girls by Asian men in the town. In 2010 five men were jailed for grooming teenagers for sex. It was the first in a series of high-profile cases over the last three years that have revealed harrowing evidence of exploitation across England including Rochdale, Derby and Oxford. South Yorkshire Police has faced claims that it was reluctant to bring about prosecutions of alleged sex gangs because of racial sensitivities over the ethnicity of alleged perpetrators. In 2012 it bought no successful prosecutions, a senior officer told the Home Affairs Select Committee. An investigation by The Times claimed police and child protection agencies in Rotherham had extensive knowledge of these activities for a decade, yet failed to act. Today's report found: "Many of the staff interviewed for this inspection felt that the emphasis from senior and middle local managers was still more focused on dealing with offences such as burglary and vehicle crime, rather than child sexual exploitation (and both the notices displayed in police stations, and some of the documentation reviewed for this inspection support this perception)." HMIC called for South Yorkshire Police, which is also at the centre of continuing controversy over its role in the Hillsborough disaster, to carry out an audit of its response to child sexual exploitation in in accordance a national policing action plan -something it was supposed to have carried out in the summer. Inspectors said the force is unable to evaluate the quality of its protective work as in some cases there was no record in the case file of the level of support and intervention provided by police and partners to the victim. The report was one of three inquiries commissioned South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright. It concluded that Mr Wright and the Chief Constable had made child sexual exploitation a top priority for the force. Between January and March 2013 South Yorkshire trained all of its 1,700 frontline staff in relation to child sexual exploitation. It praised staff for being "conscientious, enthusiastic, and focused" on helping children. But it said whilst there were" pockets of good and effective practice" the approach varied significantly across the force's four districts - Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham. "HMIC also found that many staff in public protection and children safeguarding specialist units were working in crowded offices, were poorly equipped, and found it difficult to manage their workloads. This situation is adversely disproportionate to the importance the PCC and chief constable have placed on this area of policing," the report said.

The only people that should be prosecuted in child abuse cases are the abusers themselves, the churches who undertook in paedophilia for two millennia and the authorities such as the Police, CPS, Social Services, Council authorities who were criminally and morally negligent in their duties towards the victims. Keir Starmer should put himself forward for criminal prosecution as it was on his watch as head of the CPS he failed to prosecute the child groomers! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10423599/Failing-to-report-child-abuse-should-be-a-crime-says-former-DPP-Keir-Starmer.html Failing to report child abuse should be a crime, says Keir Starmer The former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC calls for a change in the law to force doctors, social workers and priests to report all allegations of child sexual abuse Photo: PA By John Bingham, Social Affairs Editor 7:30AM GMT 04 Nov 2013 Doctors, social workers and priests should be required by law to report all allegations of child sexual abuse, according to the former Director of Public Prosecutions. Keir Starmer QC, who recently stepped down as DPP, called for a change in the law to make it a crime not to raise the alarm about such suspicions. His call has received support from both the Church of England and Roman Catholic Churches, which have both faced accusations of covering up sexual abuse in the past. But the department for Education has ruled out introducing so-called mandatory reporting claiming that it could even make children less safe in some situations. It insisted that existing professional guidelines requiring teachers and others immediately to refer concerns social workers were the best approach. Related Articles Legally forcing people to report child abuse is not the answer 04 Nov 2013 Jimmy Savile spent 'every waking minute' thinking about abuse 11 Jan 2013 Rape victims 'not being taken seriously' as prosecutions fall to five-year low 27 Oct 2013 Surge in sex crime reports in wake of Jimmy Savile scandal 17 Oct 2013 Mr Starmer’s call was supported by several victims of child sexual abuse who argued that a legal requirement to report could have spared them their ordeal. Speaking in a BBC Panorama documentary about the child protection system in the wake of the revelations about Jimmy Savile and others, Mr Starmer said that although many professions already have guidance requiring them to alert the appropriate authority about suspicions there remains a “gap” in the law in the UK, which he said should be brought into line with that in countries such as the US, Canada and Australia. “I think the time has come to change the law and close a gap that’s been there for a very long time,” he said. “I think there should be a mandatory reporting provision. "The problem is if you haven’t got a central provision requiring people to report, then all you can do is fall back on other provisions that aren’t really designed for that purpose and that usually means they run into difficulties. “What you really need is a clear, direct law that everybody understands.” Mr Starmer said that he had reached the view of lengthy consideration of the options. “I went to Washington to see how the specialist teams there deal with it,” he told the programme. “They do have a mandatory reporting scheme, a very straightforward, simple scheme and something like that I think could work in this country.” The Church of England’s head of child safeguarding, The Rt Revd Paul Butler, the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, said: “We have to think of the child first, not ourselves, not the institution, what’s best for the child.” Danny Sullivan, chairman of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission said: “The Catholic Church in England and Wales has been following the principle of mandatory reporting for some time and that it is why we would have no problem with such a provision being enshrined in law. “There are robust safeguarding policies and procedures in operation throughout the Catholic Church in England and Wales. “Any allegations of abuse are referred to the police and other relevant authorities. The Catholic Church is committed to ensuring the safety and protection of every child and vulnerable person.” But a spokesman for the Department for Education said: "Mandatory reporting is not the answer. “Guidance is already crystal clear that professionals should refer immediately to social care when they are concerned about a child. “Other countries have tried mandatory reporting and there is no evidence to show that it is a better system for protecting children. “In fact there is evidence to show it can make children less safe.”

Police in Rochdale failed to stop abuse of girl, 15 Police in a scandal-hit town failed to act when an under-age girl told detectives that she had been raped by an older man, it can be revealed after five men were convicted of sexually abusing her. The 15-year-old, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, gave a filmed police interview in 2008 in which she described falling victim to sex attacks by a 22-year-old Congolese refugee, Freddie Kendakumana. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3917004.ece

http://news.sky.com/story/1162542/charlene-downes-murder-hunt-reopened Charlene Downes: Murder Hunt Reopened Charlene Downes, 14, went missing in 2003 after reportedly being sexually exploited by older men in Blackpool. 12:07pm UK, Friday 01 November 2013 Charlene Downes went missing in 2003 Email Police are reopening their investigation into the unsolved murder of 14-year-old Charlene Downes on the 10th anniversary of when she was last seen alive. Charlene went missing on November 1, 2003 and her body has never been found. During the 2007 trial of a Jordanian takeaway owner and his Iranian business partner, who were both acquitted of Charlene's murder, the court heard the teenager was one of a number of young white girls who gravitated to Blackpool's fast food outlets to have sex with older men. Prosecutors claimed her body was chopped up and had "gone into kebabs". The two men received compensation of more than £230,000 after being found not guilty. A new senior investigating officer has been assigned to Charlene's case full-time along with a team of specialist officers. They will also investigate the disappearance of 15-year-old Paige Chivers in August 2007. Her body was never found and police have not ruled out a link between the cases. Paige had also been connected to sex exploitation in the area. Paige Chivers went missing in 2007 and has been connected to exploitationPolice have made four arrests on suspicion of Paige's murder over the years but all have been freed without charge. Lancashire Police Assistant Chief Constable Andy Rhodes said: "We know that people are more confident in coming forward to report historic information nowadays and this may be the case here. "Charlene and Paige's friends, obviously just teenagers at the time they went missing, will now be grown up and may have their own children. "I would hope they may be more confident now in coming forward and telling us what they may know." The British National Party (BNP) has organised a memorial Charlene and will hold a rally against "Muslim grooming gangs", which they have repeatedly claimed were responsible for her exploitation. However, confidential police documents and witness statements quoted by the Times newspaper, suggested Charlene was systematically abused throughout her life by a range of men

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