Peter Righton – Counselling Homosexuals (1973)
Posted: September 2, 2015 Filed under: Abuse, PIE | Tags: peter righton 1 CommentThe following is the publication Counselling Homosexuals: A study of personal needs and public attitudes (London: Bedford Square Press, 1973) by Peter Righton. It includes his public thoughts on the relationship between homosexuality, pederasty and paedophilia.
Peter Righton’s writing on child abuse in Child Care: Concerns and Conflicts – his cynical exploitation of a post-Cleveland situation
Posted: August 28, 2015 Filed under: Abuse, PIE | Tags: butler-sloss, cleveland child sexual abuse scandal, geoffrey wyatt, marietta higgs, paedophile information exchange, peter righton, richard alston, sonia morgan 1 CommentIn light of the conviction yesterday of Peter Righton‘s lover Richard Alston on child abuse charges, in which information was brought to the court’s attention about Alston and Righton abusing a boy together, I intend to update my blog posts on Righton (who was on the executive committee of the Paedophile Information Exchange, and wrote openly about paedophilia) to include more information about Alston, which I previous omitted as he was still awaiting trial which I would not have wished to prejudice. I also plan to blog some more information specific to Alston. But here is another essay from Righton which I am blogging here for the first time.
Peter Righton in 1992.
In 1976 Righton co-edited with Sonia Morgan a collection of essays entitled Child Care: Concerns and Conflicts (London: Hodder Education, 1989), a revised edition of which appeared in 1989, for which Righton also wrote an introduction, which I have reproduced below.
In this introduction, Righton writes first on the family, which he portrays primarily as a site of conflict and tension in light of increasing rates of divorce, remarriage and single-parent families, and advocates a greater degree of sharing of care responsibilities between families and agencies in such situations. It is not difficult to see how this constitutes a strategy on the part of Righton and other paedophiles to increase the availability of deeply vulnerable children for exploitation.
Then Righton includes a section on Child Abuse (following a brief mention of it in the section on the family). Whilst at first he is very keen to stress how the majority of child abuse occurs in the family (which while true is something often flagged up by non-familial paedophiles to take the attention of them), and then draws attention to the 1987 Cleveland Child Sexual Abuse Case, in which 121 diagnoses were made during a five month period leading to children being taken away from their parents and placed in care or hospital on grounds of suspected abuse. The subsequent inquiry, chaired by Lord Justice Butler-Sloss, concluded that most of the diagnoses were inaccurate, and most of the children were returned to their parents. Righton cites this case in order to highlight the danger of false allegations, and goes on (in a manner which is most familiar from PIE and other paedophile publications) to argue that the damage done to children by investigations by social workers and others can be as great or greater than the damage of abuse itself. Righton evokes the idea of a boy or girl who ‘has denied that he or she has been subject to molestation by a parent, yet knows that denial is not believed’, as if this were the primary form of disbelief about which one should be worried.
I do not intend here to express a view on the validity or otherwise of the particular reflex anal dilation test which (nor am I in any sense qualified to do so) by Dr Marietta Higgs and Dr Geoffrey Wyatt. But I offer this to show just quite how cynically a paedophile like Righton could snap up any chance available to portray over-zealous social workers intervening in cases of suspected child abuse. Ultimately, what Righton wanted was least intrusion as he and his networks continued to abuse children in the most hideous manner. That he was able to obtain a position of such respect in the social work profession, and use this to propagate his insidious propaganda, is deeply disturbing.
Albany Trust, Access, Peter Righton, Dr Robert Chartham (aka Ronald Seth) and MI5
Posted: January 30, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentAlso essential reading
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Antony Grey’s 1992 ‘ Quest for Justice: Towards Homosexual Emancipation’ makes but one mention of Peter Righton by name (see below) but by 1971 Peter Righton was very involved with counselling work at the Albany Trust bringing him into contact with many important and influential people, as had his employment as lecturer for MA Social Work for the National Institute of Social Work (NISW – Room 11).
Antony Grey: Quest for Justice, Loc 3318/6001
Antony Grey: Quest for Justice, Loc 3318/6001 – Peter Righton compiled York Social Needs Conference 1970 survey, published by NCSS Bedford Square Press 1973
During 1971 there was a curious incident which looks a lot like…
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1968-1970: Albany Trust, Peter Righton, Antony Grey and Ian Greer
Posted: January 30, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentEssential reading
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It was during the summer of 1968, that Antony Grey notes “a weekend study conference of about thirty people, mostly from the caring professions, met to review the social situation following law reform” and the Trust began to be steered towards ‘youth sexuality’. Hosted at Wychcroft, Surrey, the home of the Church of England’s Southwark Diocese Ordination course for new incoming priests, the July weekend’s focus according to Grey, was on the homosexual ‘image’, the need for more supportive social frameworks, more realistic public education concerning teenage sexuality ‘and the often extensive sexual experience of young people, both heterosexual and homosexual, and the social folly of treating them as criminals on the pretext of ‘protecting’ them, was stressed.’[i]
To that end the group requested the Trust to put in place a research and practical help project for those aged under twenty-one – as Grey pinpoints “the beginning of the…
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Peter McKelvie’s comments on Charles Napier and Peter Righton
Posted: December 24, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentNapier is an evil,calculating, manipulative paedophile
The charges he was found guilty on today were the tip of the iceberg for the scale of abuse he carried out over 40 years
After been found guilty of abuse as early as 1972, Napier was placed on List 99 with the Department of Education and so should not have been allowed to teach again
However Peter Righton, an equally devious and prolific abuser, intervened
As Director of Education at the National Institute for Social Work, Righton had become a prestigious and respected social work professional.
( The National Institute for Social Work – NISW – was a provider of services aimed at achieving excellence in practice and management in social work and social care in the UK and past employees include Sir Peter Barclay – Author with Righton of the Barclay Report – Sir Williiam Utting – Author of the Utting Report…
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Benjamin Britten and Peter Righton – A Response from the Britten-Pears Foundation
Posted: September 12, 2014 Filed under: Abuse, Music - General | Tags: Benjamin Britten, britten-pears foundation, kevin gosling, peter pears, peter righton 3 CommentsFollowing my article from May 11th, 2014 relating to the mention of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in the diaries of Peter Righton, I received the following communication by e-mail on September 2nd, 2014 from Kevin Gosling, Director of Communications for the Britten-Pears Foundation, which I am reproducing here with permission.
Dear Mr Pace
Responding to your call for anyone with information about potential links between Peter Righton, Britten and Pears to contact you, we have been looking into the correspondence files and diaries we hold here at The Red House. As you may know, our archive is open to anyone wanting to carry out research. Our search found no letters to or from Peter Righton among Britten’s or Pears’ correspondence, nor does a scan through appointment diaries from the early/mid seventies indicate either had any scheduled meetings with him.
The phrase ‘get-togethers at Snape Maltings’ suggests to us that Righton was not part of Britten’s circle; had he been an acquaintance of any significance, he would have been invited to The Red House, where Britten entertained widely. Perhaps Righton just attended receptions at Snape Maltings in the context of going to concerts there? If there are specific dates mentioned in Righton’s diaries, we would be happy to investigate the archive further, as we are as concerned as you to understand the context of these remarks. Alternatively, you would be very welcome to come up here to go through any relevant material yourself.
Sincerely
Kevin Gosling
Kevin Gosling
Director of Communications
Britten–Pears Foundation
01728 451700
Barbara Kahan and Peter Righton
Posted: September 10, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentAbsolutely essential reading – clarifies the links between Louis Minster, former director of Social Services at Richmond at the time of the Elm Guest House Scandal, Barbara Kahan, leading figure in the social work profession and at one point Minster’s boss, and Peter Righton, the paedophile who corrupted the whole profession.
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Barbara Kahan pioneered the development of social work in UK with children and families, taking it on as a career from 1948 and its very inception. From the point at which she took her first post at Dudley in 1948 as Children’s Officer where she created its first local authority children’s home to spending 1951 – 1970 building Oxfordshire’s cohesive approach to social services, working closely with her husband an Oxford based child psychiatrist, managing Louis Minster (9 years before he was to become Director of Social Services at Richmond), as County Care Child Officer for Oxfordshire in the mid 1960s to taking opinion from Peter Righton report on Staffordshire’s Pin Down regime in the 1991 report and championing distance learning education particularly for residential children’s care workers – a special interest of Righton’s.
Due to Kahan’s pioneering role, she is a person around which others have pivoted in their…
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Peter Righton, Antony Grey and Kevin O’Dowd in conversation on therapy
Posted: August 26, 2014 Filed under: Abuse, PIE | Tags: anthony grey, kevin o'dowd, peter righton, tom bateman 5 CommentsThe following was forwarded to me by Tom Bateman of the BBC Today Programme, for which I am immensely grateful. It consists of a discussion on therapy between Kevin O’Dowd, Peter Righton, and Antony Grey from 1972; the document comes from the archives at the London School of Economics. Grey (1927-2010) was a major LGBT activist, also deeply involved with the Homosexual Law Reform Society, later retitled the Sexual Law Reform Society (SLRS), and the associated charity The Albany Trust. However, he seems to have had plenty of connections with the Paedophile Information Exchange, and steered the SLRS in favour of some similar policies. Some more on Grey will follow in the next blog post.
Peter Righton was questioned about child sex offences in May 1993 and November 1994
Posted: August 21, 2014 Filed under: Abuse, PIE | Tags: lord henniker, peter righton 1 CommentThis new post on Spotlight identifies Peter Righton’s arrest in 1994. Another report given here also identifies an arrest in 1993. Both of these are subsequent to Righton’s conviction for importing child abuse images in 1992.
Evening Standard, May 19th, 1993
‘Two quizzed over child abuse case’CHILDREN’S homes expert Peter Righton has been arrested and questioned over alleged child abuse.
It follows the Evening Standard revelation two weeks ago that Mr Righton, 67, was at the centre of a police and social work investigation.
We traced Mr Righton to the country estate of Lord Henniker’s family in Suffolk which is also an education and recreational centre for children.
Mr Righton and another man have been placed on bail while papers are submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service.
The police investigation followed the seizure of indecent material from homes in Evesham, Hereford and Worcester, last year.
A recently discovered press cutting shows that Peter Righton was questioned about indecent assaults on children by the Obscene Publications Squad in November 1994 – several months after the Hereford & Worcester investigation had been shut down, and after the BBC documentary Secret Life of a Paedophile had been broadcast. It can be assumed by the absence of any further news reports that he was never charged with an offence, despite clear evidence from his diaries including names and ages of victims, along with the name of the institution where he abused them. The November 1994 arrest took place in Eye, Suffolk – presumably at Lord Henniker’s estate, where he had been living since his 1992 arrest.
The Independent, 10th November 1994
A former lecturer on child social work is being questioned about indecent assaults on children. Scotland Yard’s Obsene Publications Squad arrested Peter Righton, 68, in Eye, Suffolk.
Peter…
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