'CHILD ABUSE RING IN LAMBETH'

Clive Driscoll

In the UK, Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll was on the trail of certain politicians involved in child sexual abuse.

He was removed from the case.

Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects



According to reports, children's homes throughout the UK have been used as child-brothels by top people and the abuse has been covered up by top policemen.

Clive Driscoll began his investigation of child sex abuse in the London borough of Lambeth in 1998.

Clive Driscoll "suddenly found himself booted off the case and put on 'a disciplinary' after revealing ­politicians were among the suspects."

Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects


Lambeth

Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll said: "I was unhappy with the interference of some senior officers who did not appear to have a logical connection to my investigation into child sex abuse in Lambeth.

"There were allegations made by several people that named politicians had been involved but I never had a chance to investigate them because I was moved before I could do so."


Lambeth Palace.

Clive Driscoll was asked if a file naming politicians as suspects was lost.

Clive Driscoll says: "I handed the file to an officer and I have no ­knowledge where it went after that."


Anna Tapsell 

Former Labour councillor Anna Tapsell says she was visited by a police chief to 'warn her off'' after she raised concerns that police would not ­properly investigate pedophile rings in children's care homes.

Anna Tapsell, a chairwoman of Lambeth’s social services committee, has ­highlighted sexual abuse of children in Lambeth's care for more than twenty years.


Lambeth - home to the MI6 HQ and various gay clubs.

Anna Tapsell says: "When I learned that Clive (Driscoll) was being removed, not only from the case but also from Lambeth, I realised that the Met (London Police) were caving in to political pressure that was far more powerful than Lambeth Council.

"I was aware of allegations about an MP and the Met's failure to act on those allegations and its apparent desire to silence those who called for them to be investigated fully was deeply shocking to me.

"Council employees who tried to expose staff they suspected of sexual abuse were sidelined and ignored."

Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects


Former kids' home

Clive Driscoll had been investigating child sex abuse at Brixton’s Angell Road children’s home and South Vale youth assessment centre in West Norwood

After Clive Driscoll's removal, Anna Tapsell told how she raised fears about the depth of the investigation  during a meeting of the Community Police Consultative Group.

She says that a high-ranking officer later arrived at her home.

AnnaTapsell says: "I doubt whether I was the only person to be visited by a senior police officer in an attempt to warn me off.

"I had cast doubt on the Met’s ­inclination to get to the bottom of the paedophile activity within Lambeth’s care system...

"I have found the minutes of that meeting in the archives of Lambeth’s Community Police Consultative Group but no mention is made of the high-ranking officer’s contribution and the tape recording is also missing."



The police did trace 200 victims between 1998 to 2003.

There were only three convictions.

A total of 19 suspects were never identified.


Convicted paedophile: Michael Carroll ran the Angell Road home .

Michael John Carroll, the former boss of the Angell Road home, was arrested in 1998.

Anna Tapsell had spent more than 10 years highlighting his case.

Lambeth bosses had let him run children's homes until 1991 despite knowing in 1986 that he was a convicted ­paedophile.



In 1994, Tapsell told a judge that Carroll was 'protected' by Lambeth social ­services bosses along with paedophile Les Paul who worked in South Vale.

According to Anna Tapsell: "I have no doubt Angell Road may have been used for organised child abuse which involved adults other than staff.

"This view is reinforced by the strong investment that officers and politicians have in blocking any effective investigation.”

Clare Whelan, a Lambeth Tory councillor since 1990, claims she was repeatedly ignored by police when she tried to highlight the Carroll case.

Paedo MP cover-up claim: policeman removed from sex abuse probe after naming politicians as suspects