Author Topic: Lord Janner will not be charged despite evidence of child abuse (Read 471 times)

Pimander · « **on:** April 16, 2015, 06:08:56 AM »

Leicestershire police condemn CPS decision that it is not in public interest to charge peer because he has Alzheimer’s disease

The Labour peer Lord Janner of Braunstone will not face charges over alleged historical child sex crimes despite evidence from four police inquiries that he had been involved in the abuse of children, the director of public prosecutions has said.

Alison Saunders, the DPP, said in a statement that it was not in the public interest to put the QC and former MP on trial because four separate doctors have said he has Alzheimer’s disease and is incapable of instructing lawyers or entering a plea.

The decision was immediately condemned by Leicestershire police, the investigating force, which claimed that it would let down the alleged victims who had come forward. In an unprecedented move, the force said it was “exploring what possible legal avenues there may be to challenge” the decision.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/apr/16/lord-janner-will-not-be-charged-despite-evidence-of-child-abuse

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Pimander · « **Reply #1 on:** April 16, 2015, 06:10:14 AM »

Analysis: failure to put case before a jury will be seen by some as another plank in the continued coverup of alleged child sexual abuse

The fresh police investigation into Lord Greville Janner of Braunstone provided the director of public prosecutions with a chance – campaigners believed – to right wrongs, to make amends for the failures of the past. Failures which the director of public prosecutions admitted for the first time on Thursday.

But after nine months studying police files on the case – which were produced by detectives who identified more than 20 alleged victims – Alison Saunders, the DPP, announced that there would not be a prosecution of the Labour peer. The decision means he will never face his accusers in court.

Saunders is clear: there is a case, a strong case involving very serious allegations of sexual abuse of young boys by Janner. There always has been. But three previous police investigations failed to test these in court. The decisions made by police and the CPS were wrong, Saunders said. He should have been prosecuted more than 20 years ago.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/16/lord-janner-not-prosecute-anger-campaigners