In the UK, Detective Constable Brian Stevens has been found guilty of perjury and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. He was found to have lied about his whereabouts at the time "questionable pictures" were downloaded onto his laptop.

Charges of downloading child porn against Stevens were previously dropped "for unconnected reasons".

Half the adult male population of the British colony of Pitcairn Island (perhaps a few dozen men) have been charged with child-porn offences.

'Former Bristol city councillor John Astley has been sentenced to five months in prison after pleading guilty to 11 charges of electoral fraud.

'Astley had served as a Liberal Democrat councillor for the Lawrence Hill area of the city.

'He is already serving a 19-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to offences involving child pornography. [Downloading it from the internet.]

'But it was ruled this conviction could not be reported until the latest case was heard. [My emphases.]'

Detective Constable Brian Stevens, who counselled one of the Soham child victims' families, has already pleaded guilty to child-porn offences, was sacked from his police job and is serving several months in prison. Now Lib-Dem local councillor John Astley joins the crew.

It is always best to selectively pick genuinely-guilty people among one's social and political enemies (throwing in a handful of got-up cases against key targets as well). And this is now well in hand: the Liberal Democrats, the independent judiciary, opponents of the Labour-Tory US police-empire puppets, have all been so targeted. (See "Ashcroft's Paedophile Terror".) I have seen no publicity about any cases among this latter whiter-than-white amalgam itself.

Two hundred people have been arresteed in Australia in connection with child porn. Police say they expect about 500 people to be charged.

'The Roman Catholic Church in California is to pay $100m (Ł53m) to the alleged [!] victims of sexual abuse by clergy members, a US judge has announced.

'The settlement, in Orange County, is the largest made by any Roman Catholic diocese in the United States.

'It exceeds the payment made by Boston's diocese, where claims of abuse within in America first emerged.

'Bishop tod Brown made an apology at a press conference, which was attended by some of the 87 victims. [$1.15m apiece on average, assuming it's all distributed to the "victims".]

11 January 2005

Operation Ore link in suicide of [British Royal ] navy chief
Stewart Tendler and Dominique Searle, The Times (UK), 11 January 2005

'Commodore David White, the senior commander on Gibraltar who was found dead in his swimming pool, may have taken a mixture of alcohol and medicine.

'As investigations into the death got under way yesterday, police in London confirmed that Commodore White had been under investigation for allegedly downloading child pornography after being identified by Operation Ore, Britain's biggest child pornography inquiry.

'Commodore White, 50, who held the post of commodore British Forces Gibraltar, is believed to be the 33rd suspect to kill himself rather than face the disgrace of an investigation and possible prosecution. ...

'Commodore White, a former officer on board the Royal Yacht Britannia, was expected to serve for another three years in Gibraltar. He was single and lived alone at Mount Barbary. ...

'*Operation Ore started in 2002 after a US investigation into 7,250 British customers of a pay-to-view US child porn website

'*The website linked customers to 5,200 porn sites worldwide

'*52 forces in Britain are investigating 1,100 suspects in London and 700 in Scotland

'*1,451 convictions so far

'*879 suspects are still under investigation [sic]

'*109 children saved from abuse'

Navy officer cleared of child porn charges
Mark Honigsbaum, The Guardian (UK), 12 May 05

'A district judge today called into question the Ministry of Defence's decision to prosecute a Royal Navy officer on internet paedophile charges, after clearing him of deliberately downloading and storing indecent images of underage children on his home computer.

'Comparing the decision to prosecute Commander Tom Herman, 48 — the Queen's former Harbour Master — with similar cases brought in Hampshire under Britain's biggest porn inquiry, Operation Ore, the judge, John Woollard, said the 23 images found by MoD police on his computer, which formed the basis of the charges against him, were of the lowest category of indecency he had seen in a prosecution. ...'

No evidence against man in child porn inquiry who killed himself
Ian Herbert, The Independent (UK), 1 October 2005

'The credibility of a major investigation into child pornography came under renewed scrutiny yesterday after an inquest into the death of a naval officer who was suspended by the Royal Navy despite a lack of evidence against him.

'The Navy suspended Commodore David White, commander of British forces in Gibraltar, after police placed him under investigation over allegations that he bought pornographic images from a website in the US. Within 24 hours he was found dead at the bottom of the swimming pool at his home in Mount Barbary. ...'

Police to Widen Child Sex Abuse Inquiry During Investigation
Pressure grows on force authority chief and council leader Inglis to step down
Rob Waugh, Yorkshire Post Today (UK), 20 January 2005

'Police are to significantly widen the child sexual abuse investigation into Humberside Police Authority chairman Colin Inglis to include previous allegations made against him, the Yorkshire Post can reveal today.

'Detectives have been formally asked to include allegations made against Coun Inglis in the mid-1990s, alongside fresh accusations made last year.

'The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has written to Humberside police to advise them to broaden the ongoing criminal inquiry, as a result of their own investigations into how Humberside dealt with allegations made against Coun Inglis in 1996.

'The IPCC last night issued a statement which said: "The IPCC has looked at the investigation which was concluded in 1998, and decided this should be included in the remit of the current investigation."

'Humberside Police will now forward the advice to North Yorkshire Police, which was called in last year after concerns were raised about Humberside's ability to carry out an independent inquiry into its own police authority chairman.

'The major development in the inquiry prompted fresh calls for Coun Inglis, who is also the Labour leader of Hull City council, to be suspended. ...

'Coun Inglis, who has denied all the allegations, claiming they were politically-motivated and made because he is gay [i.e. homosexual], did not respond to a request to comment.

'the allegations made against Coun Inglis, by both alleged victims involve his role as a social worker at Gleneagles children's home, in Hull, in the 1980s. The alleged victims were at the home at different times.

'In 1998, the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence to prosecute after a two-year Humberside Police inquiry.

'When it emerged that a fresh inquiry had been launched into new allegations last year [i.e. 2004; my emphasis], the original complainant, who is now 33, complained to the IPCC that the earlier inquiry had not been carried out properly. ...

'[In 2004] Coun Inglis tried to stop the then Home Secretary David Blunkett forcing the suspension of Humberside Chief Constable David Westwood after he was criticised by the Bichard Report into the Soham murders. [My emphasis.]

'When a compromise was agreed allowing Mr Westwood back to work in September [my emphasis], Coun Inglis publicly welcomed him.'

'Colin Inglis, the chairman of the Humberside Police Authority, was arrested and questioned about claims that he abused children at a Hull children's home in the 1980s. ...' (David Rose, "'Child abuse police left me a broken man'", The Observer [UK], 12 June 2005)

See also below, under 14 November 2005 (Inglis charged).

1 June 2005

'[British county] POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS

'The chief constable of Cambridgeshire Police has resigned following claims that he sexually harassed a woman official at a police conference.

'Tom Lloyd's decision comes a day after he apologised for his behaviour over claims he became "extremely" drunk and pestered a senior female official.

'Mr Lloyd had earlier faced criticism over his role in his force's failures in the Soham murder case.'

(ITV Teletext, 1 June 05, p.309)

This is the second police chief to bite the dust in the Soham affair. Previously the Humberside chief constable (David Westwood) was defended for some time by the Humberside Police Authority against then-Home Secretary Blunkett, who had ordered his sacking over "shortcomings" re. the case.

The Soham case, which involved the murder of two ten-year-old girls in the Cambridgeshire village, seems to have been worked up as a test-bed (possibly on behalf of John Ashcroft & Co.) for police-state methods of destroying opponents ...

'... A statement issued [today] said Mr Lloyd, 53, was resigning to safeguard the reputation of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary.

'According to the Daily Mail [where the allegations were apparently first published], the woman was allegedly "pestered" during a police conference in Birmingham.

'The woman reportedly made no official complaint about the alleged incident.'

(BBC Ceefax, 1 June 05, p.106)

Chief constable resigns over sexual harassment claims
Rosie Cowan, The Guardian (UK), 2 June 05

'... Mr Lloyd, who [previously] faced severe criticism over his force's investigation of the Soham murders, resigned for his behaviour at the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) event in Birmingham last month.

'Police sources ... claimed he said sorry to the woman, who is in her 30s but has not been named, the next morning and she decided against making a formal complaint. He issued a public apology when the story appeared in the Daily Mail on Tuesday [31 May 05] ...

'... the subsequent pulicity prompted him to quit his Ł120,000-a-year post yesterday ...

'"However ill-founded or exaggerated the reporting [my emphasis], I recognise that I gave cause for concern to those present. The subsequent media attention has damaged my reputation, and I fell honour-bound to step down ..." ...

'Mr Lloyd had already come under fire in the past two years, following a damning report on his force's inquiry into the murders of the Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, and an inspectorate of Constabulary review which put his force in the worst five in England and Wales. ...

'Deep flaws in his force's vetting procedures were exposed when it emerged at the Bichard inquiry into the Soham murders that officers had not even asked Humberside police for intelligence on the murderer, Ian Huntley, who got a job as a school caretaker in Soham despite a string of sex allegations in other areas. ...'

See also "Decision to stand down is 'honourable' sacrifice", Cambridge Evening News, 2 June 05.

On 4 June 2005 I posted a message to the usenet, via Google Groups. By today it could no longer be found on Google Groups. I have reposted the message in the same way (to different newsgroups). What will be its fate?

Political censorship (under whatever pretext) seems to be taking hold, somewhere along the line.

The G8 countries are to agree to create a worldwide register of paedophiles. Drawing on internet child porn, identify makers and victims where possible. Interpol is involved.

'A man who was sexually abused as a child by a Roman Catholic priest has been awarded damages of more than Ł600,000 at the High Court.

'The man, known as A, was abused by Father Christopher Clonan over a 10-year period from the age of eight when the priest worked in Coventry. [Has this statement been proven to criminal-trial standard? Apparently not, because Clonan is said to have fled to Australia and subsequently died (?committed suicide).]

'It is believed the case could result in further claims totalling millions of pounds against the Church. [My emphasis.]'

In which case this is another instance where the British puppet is monkeying its American slave-master. No matter how genuine individual cases, the paedophile attack on the Catholic Church is being orchestrated as a general moral and financial attack on the institution.

There is no direct ulterior motive in Britain, where only 10 percent of the population is Catholic. But in the United States, the Church is the largest single denomination — with 65 million members. Is this is an attack by Protestant fundamentalists of the John-Ashcroft ilk, or really an attack on religion in general?

'A Kentucky judge has provisionally approved the largest payout yet in the US Catholic Church abuse scandal.

'The settlement, between a diocese in the state and an unknown [!] number of sexual abuse victims, amounts to a record $120m (Ł68m).

'The class-action suit accused the Church of covering up child abuse by priests and others over 50 years.

'The scandal has cost the Church more than $1bn in payouts since [sic] 1950, an Associated Press review says. [My emphasis.]'

'The Saudi Arabian authorities are refusing to reveal what action was taken against a diplomat suspected of sexually assaulting a child in London.

'The man was arrested at the end of July last year but was released after claiming diplomatic immunity.

'The [British] Foreign Office has refused to hand over papers on the case, despite a BBC freedom of information request.'

A new child porn centre is being set up In the UK to deal with online merchants of the stuff.

'Former Humberside Police Authority chairman Colin Inglis has been charged with 14 counts of indecent assault in relation to allegations of child abuse.

'The claims date back to the 1980s when Mr Inglis worked as a care worker at a children's home in Hull. They were made by one [!] of the former residents.

'Mr Inglis, who has strenuously denied the allegations, is due to appear before Hull magistrates on Tuesday [tomorrow].'

Last year the Humberside Police Authority resisted for some time then-Home Secretary David Blunkett's order to dismiss Humberside Chief Constable David Westwood over alleged deficiencies in the Soham child-murder investigation.

Britain is "awash" with missing paedophiles and other sex offenders, in what seems a joint strategy by Home Secretary John Reid and the police to promote the British police state.

'TELEGRAPH[:] A quarter of the [UK's] adult population faces an "anti-paedophile" test in an escalation of child protection policies, a report reveals.'

'But the increase in child protection measures is so great it is "poisoning" relationships between the generations, according to respected sociologist Professor Frank Furedi ... [i]n a report for think tank Civitas ...'

Diary of the Paedophile Terror, August 2004 —

(Extracts from Frank Freeman's Diary, continued)