Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters.

By Amy Brittain and Sari Horwitz February 24

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died 12 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s.

After Scalia’s death Feb. 13, the names of the 35 other guests at the remote resort, along with details about Scalia’s connection to the hunters, have remained largely unknown. A review of public records shows that some of the men who were with Scalia at the ranch are connected through the International Order of St. Hubertus, whose members gathered at least once before at the same ranch for a celebratory weekend.

Members of the worldwide, male-only society wear dark-green robes emblazoned with a large cross and the motto “Deum Diligite Animalia Diligentes,” which means “Honoring God by honoring His creatures,” according to the group’s website. Some hold titles, such as Grand Master, Prior and Knight Grand Officer. The Order’s name is in honor of Hubert, the patron saint of hunters and fishermen.

[Texas sheriff’s report reveals more details on Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s death]

Cibolo Creek Ranch owner John Poindexter and C. Allen Foster, a prominent Washington lawyer who traveled to the ranch with Scalia by private plane, hold leadership positions within the Order. It is unclear what, if any, official association Scalia had with the group.

Inside the ranch where Justice Scalia died
View Photos The Texas resort ranch spanned 30,000 acres.
“There is nothing I can add to your observation that among my many guests at Cibolo Creek Ranch over the years some members of the International Order of St. Hubertus have been numbered,” Poindexter said in an email. “I am aware of no connection between that organization and Justice Scalia.”

An attorney for the Scalia family did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

Two other private planes that landed at the ranch for the weekend are linked to two men who have held leadership positions with the Texas chapter of the Order, according to a review of state business filings and flight records from the airport.

After Scalia’s death, Poindexter told reporters that he met Scalia at a “sports group” gathering in Washington. The U.S. chapter of the International Order of St. Hubertus lists a suite on M Street NW in the District as its headquarters, although the address is only a mailbox in a United Parcel Service store.

[How St. Hubert’s encounter with a deer inspired the society]

The International Order of St. Hubertus, according to its website, is a “true knightly order in the historical tradition.” In 1695, Count Franz Anton von Sporck founded the society in Bohemia, which is in modern-day Czech Republic.

The group’s Grand Master is “His Imperial Highness Istvan von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke of Austria,” according to the Order’s website. The next gathering for “Ordensbrothers” and guests is an “investiture” March 10 in Charleston, S.C.

The life of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
View Photos Antonin Scalia, the influential and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died. He was 79.
The society’s U.S. chapter launched in 1966 at the famous Bohemian Club in San Francisco, which is associated with the all-male Bohemian Grove — one of the most well-known secret societies in the country.

In 2010, Poindexter hosted a group of 53 members of the Houston chapter of the International Order of St. Hubertus at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, according to a Houston society publication. A number of members from Mexico were also part of the ranch festivities that included “three days of organized shoots and ‘gala’ lunches and dinners.”

Poindexter told CultureMap Houston that some of the guests dressed in “traditional European shooting attire for the boxed bird shoot competition” and for the shooting of pheasants and chukar, a type of partridge.

For the hunting weekend earlier this month, Poindexter told The Washington Post that Scalia traveled to Houston with his friend and U.S. marshals, who provide security for Supreme Court justices. The Post obtained a Presidio County Sheriff’s Office report that named Foster as Scalia’s close friend on the trip.

Sheriff Danny Dominguez confirmed that a photograph of Washington lawyer C. Allen Foster is the same man he interviewed at the ranch the day of Scalia’s death.

[Did sleep apnea contribute to Scalia’s death? A breathing machine was near his bed.]

From Houston, Scalia and Foster chartered a plane without the marshals to the Cibolo Creek Ranch airstrip. In a statement after Scalia died, the U.S. Marshals Service said that Scalia had declined a security detail while at the ranch.

The friend, Louisiana-born Foster, is a lawyer with the Washington firm Whiteford, Taylor & Preston. He is also known for his passion for hunting and is a former spokesman for the hunting group Safari Club.

In 2006, Foster was featured in The Post when he celebrated his 65th birthday with a six-day celebration in the Czech Republic. He flew his family and 40 Washington friends there to stay in Moravia’s Zidlochovice, a baroque castle and hunting park. The birthday bash included “tours of the Czech countryside, wine tasting, wild boar and mouflon (wild sheep) hunts, classic dance instruction and a masked costume ball.”

A secretary at Foster’s law firm said he is traveling in Argentina. The firm’s director of marketing, Mindee L. Mosher, said Foster was traveling and she would try to contact him. A woman answering a phone associated with Foster hung up when asked for comment.

Planes owned by Wallace “Happy” Rogers III and the company of A.J. Lewis III left from San Antonio and arrived at the ranch just after noon Feb. 12. The planes departed the ranch about 30 minutes apart Feb. 14, according to flight records provided to The Post by FlightAware.

Rogers owns the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum in San Antonio. He has donated $65,000 to Republican candidates since 2008. Lewis is the owner of a restaurant supplier company, also based in San Antonio. He has given $3,500 to GOP candidates since 2007.

Rogers and Lewis have both served as prior officers in the Texas chapter of the International Order of St. Hubertus, according to Texas business records. Rogers spoke to a Post reporter briefly on the phone and confirmed that he was at the ranch the weekend of Scalia’s death. He declined to comment further.

Lewis did not respond to several attempts for comment.

The Presidio County Sheriff’s Office released an incident report to The Post on Tuesday that revealed Foster’s name as Scalia’s traveling companion and provided details about the discovery of his body.

Poindexter and Foster told the sheriff that Scalia had traveled to Texas the day before to go hunting. Poindexter told the sheriff that they “had supper and talked for a while” that evening.

Scalia “said that he was tired and was going to his room for the night,” the sheriff wrote in his report.

When Scalia didn’t show up for breakfast that morning, Poindexter knocked on his door and eventually went in and found the Justice dead in his bed, Poindexter said.

Law enforcement officials told The Post that they had no knowledge of the International Order of St. Hubertus or its connection to Poindexter and ranch guests. The officials said the FBI had declined to investigate Scalia’s death when they were told by the marshals that he died from natural causes.

Alice Crites in Washington and Eva Ruth Moravec in San Antonio contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters/2016/02/24/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html

Largest Paedophile Ring in History, 70,000 Members, Heads of State.

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

Millions read the news today, the pedophile ring “busted” or the earlier article about how the FBI actually ran it for several weeks, expanding it, drawing in tens of thousands. Those who read it thought they knew, thought they were getting the story but as is so often the case, the truth goes so much further. 

When Veterans Today tied the murder of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia to a White House blackmail plot and a strange tale involving the Keshe Foundation, it became clear that the highest and most powerful in Europe, the US and around the world, were tied together in a web of ritual child abuse on a massive scale. For the Scalia tale, refer to Appendix I.

Today’s story is one more aspect of this. VT’s involvement goes back to 1991 when key VT staffers worked for America’s intelligence community. A GOP high level staffer approached the CIA claiming that President George H.W. Bush was being blackmailed. It was said that the President was at a political fundraiser in St. Louis where, unknown to the President, top GOP campaign donors were having sex with young males, some of whom had been spirited away from Boys Town in Nebraska of Father Flanagan fame.

The rumors became more than rumors when Bush 43 took office and brought with him, according to a high level White House informant, a virtual army of Neocon pedophiles and “nancyboys” who set the tone for 8 years of crushed civil liberties. staged economic crashes and the dirtiest wars in America’s history.

The door didn’t open again until Iranian physicist, Mehran T. Keshe came to us with his own story. Invited to Belgium, sponsored by the Royal Family, Keshe was introduced to internet guru Sterling Allen and Belgian “fixer,” Dirk Lauressens. Within a short time, it became clear that he was there as a prisoner, not a guest, having fallen into a web of pedophiles that control public life in Belgium and the Netherlands, control corporations, courts, the police and do so rather publicly.

With Keshe’s story, we traced Sterling Allen, through his work with Belgium’s Royal Family, to his questioning by the FBI, to the seizure of his computers and eventually to his real task in life, webmaster for a massive pedophile ring that supplied children for the members of secret societies that control our daily lives through suppression of technology and the waging of endless war.

From NBC News:

Massive pedophile ring busted; 230 kids saved – US news – Crime & courts | NBC News

An Internet pedophile ring with up to 70,000 members — thought to be the world’s largest —has been uncovered by police, a security official said Wednesday.

The European police agency Europol said in a statement that “Operation Rescue” had identified 670 suspects and that 230 abused children in 30 countries had been taken to safety. More children are expected to be found, Europol said.

A pedophile ring, 70,000 strong, has been identified and hundreds arrested, an organization run on the internet, centered in the Free Energy Community, including websites run out of Paris, the Netherlands and Belgium.

What isn’t being told is that this same organization, also known as the Red Circle, runs through secret societies around the world:

• Bilderberg
• St. Hubertus
• Federalist Society
• Knights of Malta (Rome, not KMFAP in Budapest)
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Federal Reserve Bank
• NATO
• Royal Families of Belgium and Netherlands
• SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States)

So much of this story revolves around Mehran T. Keshe, whose plasma related defense technologies, threaten the military balance of power, disabling American stealth drones and even leaving an AEGIS destroyer floating, dead in the water, in the Black Sea.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/24/vt-exclusive-largest-pedophile-ring-in-history-70000-members-heads-of-state-the-rats-scramble/#ifrndnloc#ifrndnloc

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Two members of Fitzwilliam Hunt in court charged with hunting offences.

Two men have appeared in court charged with hunting offences after foxes were killed during the Fitzwilliam Hunt. 

George Adams (65) and John Mease (44) appeared at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court this morning (Wednesday). Both men are charged with hunting a fox with dogs on New Years’ Day this year, while Mease also faces a count of causing unnecessary suffering to a fox, when a golden eagle killed the animal in November 2013. Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges, and will stand trial later this year. Sam Wooley, prosecuting, told the court: 

“These are two separate offence.
“The first offence took place on January 1 2016, when the defendants were with the Fitzwilliam Hunt. “It is said that the hunt used hounds to kill a fox. It is said the hounds were not called off quickly enough, and they killed the fox. “We say Mr Adams’ role was he was leading the hunt. He was the person who gives commands to the hounds.” 

“The second offence relates to the use of a golden eagle by Mease. It is said the eagle killed the fox in an inhumane way.” The court was told there would be two trials covering the matter - one for each offence. The trial involving both men will take place at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Monday, December 5. The trial only involving Mease will take place at the same court on Thursday, December 8. Both men were granted bail by District Judge Miller until the trial date.

Read more at: http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/crime/two-members-of-fitzwilliam-hunt-in-court-charged-with-hunting-offences-1-7554105

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Post-Rotherham, whistleblowing in social care needs an urgent review

By Martin Morton
from 204 but more relevant today, methinks.

When Community Care wanted to revisit the topic of whistleblowing within social care, I was informed by the journalist reporting that, as a social worker who was prepared to speak openly about my experience, I was a rare case. The resulting report’s title said it all: “Fear of bullying prevents social workers from whistleblowing”.

Now following the harrowing revelations of child abuse and exploitation in Rotherham, it appears to me from reading the Jay report that whistleblowing remains anathema within social care.

Findings from the report that “the environment at the council was described as macho, sexist and bullying” and “within social care the scale and seriousness of the problem was underplayed by senior managers” were infuriatingly familiar.

What struck me, as these type of revelations always do, is how Rotherham Council and other agencies involved in safeguarding vulnerable children managed to keep serious concerns hidden for so long, when it was clear that many social workers and their managers knew there was a serious issue of abuse, and had known for a very long time.

As sure as night follows day, I discovered that Unison had made claims of widespread bullying within the social services department of Rotheram council in 2010. A survey by the union shows that 75% of its members thought bullying in their department was a “serious” or “very serious” problem.

As this publication wrote in 2012: “Despite the existence of laws designed to protect those who speak out against malpractice, whistleblowers still risk their careers by doing the right thing.”
“On one hand social workers are bound by their professional code of conduct to protect service users, but on the other some employers and organisations use the unspoken threat of personal and professional ruin to keep them schtum.”
In the face of  savage cuts to services, I can’t think of a profession that needs to whistleblow more – especially about the impact on the most vulnerable people in our communities and the risks to health, wellbeing and indeed lives. However the issue of bullying is only part of the answer to the question: “why don’t social workers whistleblow?”.

Is it because social workers are not listened to or because they don’t whistleblow loudly or shrill enough?

Might it have something to do with the fact that social work training steers away from the controversial but absolutely vital area of how to safely raise concerns?
Or is it that some of our institutions are now so fundamentally broken that social workers’ ability to speak up to those in power, in the name of protecting children and safeguarding vulnerable adults, is now fatally compromised?
I believe there was an opportunity to raise some of these  – admittedly big – questions  with the setting up of an independent review “Whistleblowing in the NHS” chaired by Sir Robert Francis QC. The review intends to provide independent advice and recommendations to ensure that:

• NHS workers can raise concerns in the public interest with confidence that they will not suffer detriment as a result
• Appropriate action is taken when concerns are raised by NHS workers
• Where NHS whistleblowers are mistreated, those mistreating them will be held to account.

It is significant that this review only came about as a result of sustained lobbying by high profile NHS whistleblowers.

It is also significant that social care is excluded from this review.
In consideration of reports emanating from Rotherham, Rochdale and other places the fact that the review does not consider whistleblowing issues relating to social care is, regrettably, not only a missed opportunity but an extremely telling statement of the way social care remains the “poor relation” of healthcare.
Martin Morton is a social worker who blew the whistle on the overcharging of disabled adults in Wirral council and was forced to resign. 

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2014/09/08/post-rotheram-whistleblowing-social-care-needs-urgent-review/

The Militant Tendency in Liverpool: Books, Pictures, and Videos

Michael Parkinson, Liverpool on the Brink: One City’s Struggle Against Government Cuts(Policy Journals, 1985);   Peter Taaffe and Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool: The City That Dared To Fight (Fortress Press, 1988);   Diane Frost and Peter North, Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge (Liverpool University Press, 2013);   Dave Sinclair,Liverpool in the 1980s (Amberley Publishing, 2014).

Budget Day Demonstration in Support of Council (March 1984) – Dave Sinclair

Youth Training Scheme Protest (April 1985) – Dave Sinclair

Town Hall Rally (June 1985) – Dave Sinclair

 https://thoughtsofaleicestersocialist.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/the-militant-tendency-in-liverpool-books-pictures-and-videos/

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Named: Scots police chiefs linked to disgraced ‘Spycops’ unit.

The identities of senior police officers in Scotland linked to a secret Metropolitan Police division under investigation are revealed today by The Ferret, prompting renewed calls for the Pitchford Inquiry to be extended to Scotland.

A Police Scotland response to questions submitted under Freedom of Information legislation reveals the names of high ranking Scottish police officers who attended meetings of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, aka ACPO TAM.

ACPO TAM is responsible for counter terrorism and oversaw the UK’s national domestic extremism units whose activities are being investigated by Lord Justice Pitchford.

The committee’s remit covered undercover officers with the Metropolitan Police who infiltrated campaigning groups and spied on animal rights activists and environmentalists, among others deemed domestic extremists.

The Ferret – publishing this information today in tandem with the Daily Record – also obtained details of Police Scotland’s command structure for the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in 2005 when the undercover Met Police officer Mark Kennedy was operating in Scotland with colleagues.

Kennedy was one of several undercover police officers who entered into relationships with women during covert operations.

Another called Bob Lambert fathered a child with a woman he was spying on and the actions of officers with the disgraced Met Police unit led to the Pitchford Inquiry being set up.

The public inquiry will investigate the policing of domestic extremism and also alleged miscarriages of justice linked to police spies in England and Wales.

However, revelations that undercover Met Police officers – including Kennedy – also worked north of the border led to calls for Pitchford to cover Scotland too.

Senior officers in Scotland who met with ACPO TAM included Sir Willie Rae, former Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police, and Paddy Tomkins, former Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police.

Sir Stephen House – who stepped down as Chief Constable of Scotland last year – also attended ACPO TAM meetings.

Former Assistant Chief Constables Colin McCashey and Ronnie Liddle – both now retired – were also listed in the Police Scotland FOI reply.

DCC Iain Livingstone still serves with Police Scotland and was also named as having attended ACPO TAM meetings.

Senior officers were members of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) which ceased to operate on 1st April 2o13 when Police Scotland was established.

The Police Scotland FOI reply also said that DCC Livingstone, along with Sir Stephen House, ACC Ruaraidh Nicolson and new Chief Constable of Scotland, Phil Gormley, have all attended ACPO TAM meetings since the formation of Police Scotland.

It emerged last weekend that Chief Constable Gormley is expected to give evidence during the Pitchford Inquiry.

In 2006, his role at the Met Police included oversight of both the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit(NPOIU).

Both of these now defunct units investigated domestic extremism and will be scrutinised during the Pitchford Inquiry.

Mr Gormley was head of Special Branch when the SDS was running Carlo Neri, an undercover officer who had relationships with two women who are now taking legal action against the Met.

Campaigners calling for the Pitchford Inquiry to be extended to Scotland said senior officers should have known that Met Police spies were operating in Scotland and should be questioned.

Senior officers leading the policing of the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in 2005, when the SDS was in Scotland, included ACC Ian Dickinson who was closely involved in counter terrorism.

Paddy Tomkins was also involved in policing the G8 Summit. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for Distinguished Police Service.

 

Donal O’Driscoll, of Undercover Research Group, has been researching and exposing police spies while calling for Pitchford to cover Scotland.

He said: “This information shows that through ACPOS, Scottish police officers played a role overseeing undercover police officers such as Mark Kennedy and cannot deny knowing about their activities, including in Scotland.”

“We know that many of the spycops were active in Scotland or holidayed there with the women they targeted for relationships. For those most affected by these injustices it is vital for the full story of the abuse to come out, and for this reason alone the Pitchford Inquiry must be extended to Scotland.”

Labour MSP Neil Findlay has also campaigned for the public inquiry to cover Scotland. He said: “Evidence of Scottish involvement in the undercover policing scandal grows by the day.”

“We now must have all of this brought out in the open with a full public inquiry in Scotland. We cannot have people in England and Wales having access to justice but people in Scotland denied.”

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “We do not routinely comment on covert policing operations.”

“It is a matter for the public inquiry into undercover policing who is called to provide evidence and that request will be considered if received by Police Scotland.”

The Scottish Government has said it would explore the possibility of extending Pitchford to Scotland with the Home Secretary, Theresa May.

When asked what progress had been made a spokesperson for the Scottish Government, said: “Discussions concerning extending the Pitchford Inquiry to cover the activities of the Metropolitan Units in Scotland are ongoing.”

In January, The Ferret revealed that Ronnie Liddle – Scotland’s former counter-terrorism chief– was seconded to a controversial undercover Met Police unit now under investigation.

Mr Liddle was head of CID at Lothian and Borders Police before being appointed to lead counter-terrorism in Scotland in May 2012.

But he was seconded to the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit (CTIU), responsible for undercover police, seven months later.

Part of his remit was overseeing domestic extremism, including officers spying on protest groups in Britain.

Mr Liddle’s secondment to the Met Police was detailed in the minutes of a Lothian and Borders Police Board meeting in 2013.

It says Liddle was: “Temporarily promoted to Assistant Chief Constable from 23/4/12 upon secondment to CTIU for the period 23/4/12 to 15/12/12.”

Part of his remit at CTIU included responsibility for national domestic extremism.

Last month, more than 100 people signed a letter demanding that the Met Police revealed the fake names used by police spies ahead of the inquiry beginning.

The 133 signatories also called for a list of protest groups infiltrated by undercover officers to be made public.

The people who signed the letter will each play a key role in the Pitchford Inquiry.

People who signed the letter include Harry Halpin who told the Sunday Mail that an undercover officer called Mark Kennedy duped him into allowing access to his personal computer.

At the time, Haplin was a climate change activist studying for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh.

Another signatory was Jason Kirkpatrick, an activist who befriended Kennedy and suspects the officer interfered with his media work during the 2005 global summit at Gleneagles.

Kate Wilson also signed the letter. She successful sued the Met after being duped into a relationship with Kennedywho was in Scotland working undercover on 14 occasions.

The letter was published on a website called Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (Cops).

In our view, the police’s ‘neither confirm nor deny’ policy is less about protecting individuals and far more about blocking exposure of misdeeds.CAMPAIGN OPPOSING POLICE SURVEILLANCE

It begins: “Dear Lord Justice Pitchford, As 133 of the inquiry’s core participants, we write to share our collective view that a fundamental requirement for the inquiry’s success is to instruct police to disclose, as soon as possible, a list of names of all the organisations about whom intelligence was gathered; the cover names (not the real identities) of the individual officers responsible for infiltrating and reporting on activists and campaigns; and the individual Special Branch reports for each core participant group or individual.

“Core Participants and other current and potential witnesses are likely to struggle to provide testimony as long as there remains inadequate or non-existent information available to them.”

“We are deeply concerned that a unique and historic opportunity may be lost unless the inquiry is able to provide the vital details we seek.”

The letter criticises the Met Police for failing to reveal the names used by undercover officers, accusing the force of obstructing the inquiry to serve its own interests.

It says: “We appreciate that the police will use every possible argument against providing greater openness and transparency, although there is no evidence that the public exposure of any undercover officer to date has either placed them at personal risk or posed any threat to national security.”

“In our view, the police’s ‘neither confirm nor deny’ policy is less about protecting individuals and far more about blocking exposure of misdeeds.”

The Met Police has refused to release the names of undercover officers as they have a policy of protecting covert tactics and the safety of officers and their families.

https://theferret.scot/scottish-police-chiefs-spycops-pitchford-inquiry/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SVTF

https://theferret.scot/scottish-police-chiefs-spycops-pitchford-inquiry/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SVTF

Greville Janner invited me to sauna.

A Jewish historian gave evidence to police investigating allegations of sexual abuse against the late Lord Janner, it has emerged.

Gavin Littaur, a 66-year-old postal expert, was questioned by Leicestershire Police about a brief encounter he had with Greville Janner during the 1970s.

Mr Littaur wrote to the JC after reading an interview with Lord Janner's son, Daniel Janner QC, who suggested that the case against his father was backed by people who are "driven by claiming compensation".

When Lord Janner died last December, aged 87, he was facing a criminal hearing, accused of 22 charges involving 13 complainants between 1963 and 1988. A growing number of them have launched civil cases seeking damages from his £2 million estate.

While Mr Littaur, from Hendon, north-west London, does not claim to have been abused by Lord Janner, he recalled being propositioned by him during his early twenties. The politician was a close friend of Mr Littaur's parents and had been invited to the family home for dinner.

I thought it was right for me to approach the police

Mr Littaur said: "He was very charming, articulate and clever. While my parents cleared up, they said 'go and look after Greville in the lounge'.

"He was asking me about my life and what I did. I was asking him about the Jewish community and the law. We were chatting away and he seemed pleasant and talkative. But then very smoothly - as smooth as silk - he said 'would you like to come back to join me for a sauna?'"

Mr Littaur, who is heterosexual, unequivocally rejected the offer and immediately excused himself. When he told his parents, his mother was "very jumpy", but his father "was faintly amused".

While nothing further occurred, Mr Littaur said he had "absolutely no question" about the "improper and inappropriate suggestion" which left him feeling "imposed upon".

The two men never crossed paths again.

But Mr Littaur contacted police last year when he read about the accusations against Lord Janner.

"I believe bad things happen when good people stay silent, so on balance I thought it right to approach the police. I thought it was so long ago and they would think nothing of it."

Their response, however, surprised him. Two officers travelled from Leicester to spend two hours interviewing Mr Littaur.

They said his story "tied in" with the accounts of others. He has had no further involvement with the inquiry, but contacted the JC after reading Mr Janner's comments about those claiming to have been abused.

Mr Littaur: "I don't like aspersions cast on myself and possibly other people and I thought I should speak up.

"I have no agenda and no axe to grind - I just want the truth to come out, whatever the truth is."

Lord Janner's family have repeatedly denied he was engaged in any wrongdoing.

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/162354/greville-janner-invited-me-sauna

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Greville Janner: more alleged victims cleared to testify at sex abuse inquiry.

The independent inquiry examining sexual abuse claims against Greville Janner will hear testimony from a further six alleged victims, it was confirmed today.

Previously, the number of people understood to be alleging they had been sexually assaulted by the former Labour MP for Leicester West stood at 27.

However, the further six 'complainants' were granted core participant status by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, (IICSA).

Core participants will deliver their testimonies to the inquiry and be granted special rights, such as receiving documents, making legal submissions, suggesting questions and receiving advance notice of the inquiry's report.

That means a total of 33 alleged victims will testify they were alleged by the Labour politician.

According to documents released by the IICSA today, most allege abuse took place when they were living in children's homes.

Their lawyer said all six had contacted Leicestershire Police in the past but their allegations had not resulted in criminal charges against the politician.

The force and the Crown Prosecution Service were later criticised for not putting the politician on trial when he was alive and well.

The veteran Labour politician – who was accused of 22 sexual offences against boys between 1963 and 1988 – died, aged 87, shortly before Christmas.

His death ended the prospect of his alleged victims' evidence ever being tested in a criminal court.

The veteran politician's family says he was innocent of any wrongdoing.

The IICSA was created by the Government to ask whether efforts to try the former Labour MP for Leicester West for alleged child abuse when he was alive and well were "hindered or prevented" by public authorities.

The inquiry, which is conducting a number of separate investigations into alleged sexual abuse by people in positions of power, will issue a "finding of facts" report at its conclusion.

Leicestershire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service will be asked why the politician was not charged with offences against children when he was alive and well and what was known about his alleged sexual interest in children.

Leicestershire County Council, which was responsible for children's home in which abuse allegedly took place, is also to be asked to account for its actions.

Liz Dux, specialist abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon who represents 16 of Lord Janner's alleged victims, including the six new complainants, said: "This is not a case of new alleged victims coming forward, but more those who have already made allegations of serious sexual assault wanting to have their evidence heard by the inquiry after suffering in silence and being ignored for so long.

"As a result we welcome them being made core participants."

Earlier this month Professor Alexis Jay replaced New Zealander judge Justice Dame Lowell Goddard, who stood down from the post of chairman of the inquiry.

Prof Jay led the groundbreaking public inquiry which uncovered the sexual exploitation of 1,400 young women in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, between 1997 and 2013.

Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/greville-janner-more-alleged-victims-cleared-to-testify-at-sex-abuse-inquiry/story-29643973-detail/story.html#V7Y4vrbO8wMZmhS8.99