Knowl View gets much worse

Mojo Hill wrote:  

repro: - 'Rochdale Borough Council's Newsroom, online

MEDIA UPDATE***             for Monday, 28 April, 2014.
* Please note - There will be no question and answer session following the update by the leader of the council and Chief Constable Fahy '

  OK, one question ... " in the wind " then

A former pupil at Knowl View school, Michael Seed, friend and priest to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, aka the ‘priest-to-the-stars,’ wrote of sexual abuse that took place there in his book ‘ Nobody’s Child ;’ a grisly bio, bit-serialised in the Daily Mail in 2007.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/school-sex-abuse-horror-revealed-1002596

- Did Seed’s later fall from grace exclude directly obtaining his memories and experiences of Knowl View school during all of these different enquiries / investigations / reviews    ( was he one of many witnesses included 

Tony Blair's priest fixed papal knighthoods for cash. 2012: - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370323/Tony-Blairs-priest-fixed-papal-knighthoods-cash.html

It could be a turning point for the better if this investigation turns out to be a real and effective one, there is a lot wants clearing up.

Chill37 wrote:Latest

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/86800/knowl-view-inquiry-police-identify-new-suspects

From viewing the video of the press conference on that link, it appears the main idea was to limit expectations by explaining that this will be a slow, limited, blinkered, tedious and toothless inquiry conducted by people who would rather be doing something else. So, worked brilliantly for me, my expectations have been well limited.

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Wait for it...............................lessons will be learnt  



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Hinch wrote:A lot of interest in this. 34 members of the press there. Four satellite trucks. It would have been better to host it at Riverside.

Not at all, a small room was chosen to prevent elephants entering the room.

Well I suppose whilst they are all still talking about Rochdale (that well known den of iniquity) everywhere else is getting a rest -   

Another article on Paedo Smith

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-27211294

"I think Rochdale Council should be taken to task for not investigating earlier. These claims should have been picked up and looked at a long, long time ago."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-27211294

In the recent press conference, the Chief Constable explained the police inquiry into whether there should be a criminal investigation would be difficult and hampered by the passage of time, could only move within a limited framework, on corroborated evidence, and could not speak about previous police inquiries, due to the law having changed since then.

Procedural rules between Police, and Q.C. inquiries means information has to be appropriately placed. Identities of suspects unknown, their status as 'suspects' uncertain.

Could the slow, limiting, procedural log jam, as explained, be moved forward more quickly by the leadership of R.M.B.C., motivated to spur on and broaden the scope? The national reputation of Rochdale in future can either be of the town that cleaned out the mess, which allegedly extends far beyond Rochdale, or, always be a town holding it's secrets and suspicions to itself. Whether fair or not, there is a public perception of police and council both reluctant to "drag up the past", co-operating to do little.

Mr. Danczuk, quote: "Make no mistake: the identities of many of these men have long been known to the police." "I am also very worried by the narrow, local focus of the proposed investigation."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2615504/Cyril-Smiths-victims-dont-want-police-platitudes-want-accomplices-bars.html

That's what "drag up the past" means. R.M.B.C. needs a good working relationship with G.M.P., but is a 'good working relationship' really good if it does not get the action and results needed?

A sad case all round, but can no longer be brushed under the carpet, the carpet is getting far too lumpy.

Well I like to think we will wake up to headlines of past and present Lib Dems/Labour parties members being interviewed under caution about this

Or, the arrests of the 11 other suspects any day now.

Hinch wrote:Don't hold your breath Chill!

I wont, cos everything is fine in Rochdale. Oh we have a nice Town Hall.

With this Cyril Smith thing, the effect is as though the whole town, it's politics and it's people have been, to some extent, abused. There is plenty for the council and the police to deal with in the present, but it still matters to sort out the past.