Cyril Smith 'protected by a high-level Westminster paedophile ring' claims MP

• Apr 16, 2014 21:06
• By James Lyons

Labour’s Simon Danzcuk - who exposed Smith - claimed the Liberal grandee was part of an “informal” network of perverts who stalked the corridors of power

Scandal: Cyril Smith

Child abuser Cyril Smith was protected by a high-level Westminster paedophile ring, the MP who exposed him claimed.

Labour’s Simon Danzcuk said the Liberal grandee was part of an “informal” network of perverts who stalked the corridors of power.

He said: “Had he been prosecuted, then the house of cards would have fallen, in terms of that paedophile network, and it could have brought the government down.

“Once he became a member of Parliament in 1972, I think he joined an, obviously informal, network of paedophiles that existed in and around Westminster.”

The claims came as fresh doubt was cast in Nick Clegg’s instance that no Liberal Democrats knew about Smith’s activities.

Police have said Smith attended Elm Guest House in South West London, where underage rent boys and youngsters from a children’s home were reportedly brought to have sex with adult men.

Other high profile figures are said to have been visitors including senior MPs, a high-ranking policeman and an MI5 officer.

Mr Danzcuk, MP for Smith’s former constituency Rochdale, says that police received at least 144 complaints about Smith but MI5 and Special Branch pressured them into backing off.

He claimed child abuse allegations against Smith were even raised in public at a Liberal party conference.
Charles Baker, a former activist from the Social Democratic Party, told the BBC he was warned by HQ that the sister party faced a scandal in 1983.

“There was this alert that one of the other parties had got hold of the fact that Cyril Smith had interfered with boys yet again – I underline the word again,” he said.

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