Article from Telegraph – Simon Danczuk on child sex allegations involving senior Westminster figures

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The Daily Telegraph (London)

May 5, 2014 Monday
Edition 1;
National Edition

Government urged to reassure public about child sex claims

BYLINE: Peter Dominiczak

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4

LENGTH: 230 words

MINISTERS must “reassure the public” about a series of child sex investigations involving Westminster politicians, the Labour MP who exposed Cyril Smith’s behaviour said yesterday.

Simon Danczuk, the MP for Rochdale, last month published a book on Smith which reignited the scandal over the former Liberal MP, who used his power and influence to abuse hundreds of boys for more than four decades.

However, Mr Danczuk has also disclosed details of allegations about two other senior Westminster figures who have been accused of historic abuse.

Mr Danczuk said that he has now been contacted by police officers about a case involving a senior Labour politician and said that officers are taking the allegations “extremely seriously”.

He has also disclosed that during the course of his investigation into Smith, who died in 2010, he interviewed a man who was sexually abused by the MP at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, London, when he was 16. The man gave him the name of another parliamentarian who had visited the guesthouse, describing him as a “much bigger fish” and significantly “higher up the food chain”. Mr Danczuk yesterday said that with so many investigations under way, the Government needs to make a public statement about the allegations.

“We need them to reassure the public that the police are getting adequate resources to carry out these investigations,” he said.

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