Top level officials lied to protect paedophile politician Cyril Smith from prosecution, inquiry hears
The 29st MP should have stood trial after detectives found claims he sexually abused eight young boys in 1970 'stood up'
PAEDO politician Cyril Smith was protected from prosecution by lying officials at the very top, it was claimed yesterday.
The 29st MP should have stood trial after detectives found “sordid” claims he sexually abused young boys in 1970 “stood up”.
But then-Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Norman Skelhorn dropped the case, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse was told.
MI5 said they were later made aware that prosecutors had lied when they said allegations against Rochdale Liberal MP Smith were unlikely to lead to a prosecution.
The claims involving eight boys were known of at “the very highest level of politics” the inquiry in London heard.
But Smith was not prosecuted and was knighted in 1988.
The inquiry is examining how the MP, who died in 2010 at 82, was allegedly able to target kids in Rochdale institutions.
He is said to have spanked some and medically examined others.
Records show the DPP told a magazine no police reports of abuse had been received.
The inquiry heard a cop probe in 1970 concluded the MP hid behind a “veneer of respectability” to target boys.
A report said: “He used his position to indulge in a sordid series of indecent episodes.”
