tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post5280574447154500362..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: "Statements given by the two children against Lord Janner were locked away in a drawer at Market Harborough Police Station"Jonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-60322543876489216192021-11-02T09:37:38.685+00:002021-11-02T09:37:38.685+00:00The Market Harborough statements were not made by ...The Market Harborough statements were not made by children. They were made by adults who decided to claim that Janner had abused them many years previously. There is a difference. <br /><br />David Hencke had to pay damages to ex Lib Dem MP John Hemming a few years back for airing false allegations against him. Hencke presumably now finds it safer to attack the dead. It's perhaps significant that all the projected claims against Janner's estate fell apart before reaching court.<br /><br />I always felt that the allegations against Edward Heath and Leon Brittan were almost certainly false, each one more preposterous than the last. With Janner there is at least some room for doubt. It seems to be accepted that he befriended (I use the word neutrally) a boy in a children's home and took him off to London and that social workers were unhappy about this. It's unclear though whether Janner intended to abuse the boy or whether it was a cack-handed attempt to help him, a modern version of Gladstone and prostitutes. <br /><br />I have a lot of sympathy for Janner's family but I don't think that blank denials are really the answer, they should try to provide some context for what happened.<br /><br />I do agree that there is an excessive amount of secrecy here. I think it's been claimed that Janner wrote possibly compromising letters to nine boys. If this is true why can't redacted versions of these be published so that people can make up their own minds about the content?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com