[Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast]
The launch of an inquiry into allegations of an elite paedophile ring operating in children’s care homes in the UK has prompted calls for the inclusion of Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast.
In January, 1980, the irish Independent revealed a cover-up in relation to child abuse at the home. Subsequently three members of staff, William McGrath, Raymond Semple, and Joseph Mains, were convicted of a number of child sexual abuse offences.
McGrath, who had been prominent in the Orange Order until expulsion due to his paedophilia, was the founder of a far-right Unionist organisation known as ‘Tara’.
It has been alleged by former M15 officer Colin Wallace – who had been attempting to leak details of Kincora to the press since 1973 – that McGrath was a long-term M15 operative and his handlers wer fully aware of his activities.
Shortly after the Kincora story broke, Wallace was arrested and convicted of the manslaughter of an acquaintance, a conviction subsequently quashed in 1996 on the basis of new evidence.
Allegations in the Irish Times about a political paedohphile ring associated with Kincora led to an Inquiry by Judge William Hughes (with Mr W.J. Patterson and Mr Harry Whalley).
Their report published in 1985 and available (in pdf form) here dismisses this allegation, preferring to characterise Kincora as an example of a general malaise in institutional care generally.
The Report does however contain reference to at least one boy being taken to a location in the Republic of Ireland.
The location is not identified but quotes attributed to Wallace have indicated it may be in County Offaly.
Joshua Cardwell, a prominent Unionist, committed suicide after being questioned regarding a visit to Kincora.
Meanwhile, recent allegations regarding the alleged paedophile ring operating from the Elm House guest house in London also implicate a number of Northern Ireland politicians, including a named ‘Sinn Fein MP’
No references to the MP in question – a ‘Gary Walker’ – appear online other than in relation to the Elm Guest house and he is not included among the list of present and past MPs appearing on the Sinn Fein wikipedia page.
He does however appear on a Google Books search of Dod’s Parliamentary Directory although the party which he represents is not identifiable from the clipping available online. A possible peeodophile ring nom de plume?
Anyone?
Kincora: Time We Knew The Truth (Belfast Telegraph)
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
(BBC)
A well known ageless bachelor singer appears on that Elm Lodge list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-LBI4wUA8k
The Sinn Féin MP’s name is the first hit on Google when I search. What are you taking about?
Did you search “gary walker sinn fein” and end up with a load of pages talking about this list, like I did?
I presume they mean “other than in relation to Elm Guesthouse”, I couldn’t find anything else about him online either. Was he a Sinn Fein MP or is there a mistake in the Elm Guesthouse list which describes him as such.
Ah. Got you. Thanks :)
Welcome :-)
Having, like you, googled, I found one website which suggests the name in question might have been one of a number of pseudonyms used by this person.
When I google Google say some results may have been removed due to European data protection laws. The Telegraph and other newspapers report that among the first to have unfavourable stories in the right to be forgotten was an ex-MP. They report separately in the same article that among those who were first to ask to Google to remove stories about them, one was a convicted paedophile. This is all probably unrelated to this story though.
I have noticed the effects of the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling in relation to other unrelated searches; though in fairness, content is still there but not showing up in google search – it just takes a little more detective work to find.
Glancing over the 1985 report I find it a little more than disturbing that rape and sexual assault of minors is described throughout as ‘homosexual activities’. It may be just the language of the time but it still perpetrates tired misconceptions about sexual orientation and misrepresents the seriousness of the crimes committed against these vulnerable children. The renewed investigation is welcome – although more than delayed for the victims concerned – but at the least it should address these deficits in understanding.
It must be said that this is how the justice system in the UK (and Ireland) convicted the rape of young boys and men – under acts of ‘homosexual offence’, removed in 1982 in NI (1967 in England and Wales) and in 1993 in the Republic.
Homosexuality and paedophilia were almost inextricably linked in the media up to the mid 1970s and maybe afterwards. As was sado-masochism.
The gay rights movement was not too keen on the paedophile rights movement precisely because they were hoping to dissociate themselves from paedophilia – which they ultimately did, successfully.
Good article about your point here:-
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/westminsters-dark-secret-adultery-homosexuality-sadomasochism-and-abuse-of-children-were-all-seemingly-lumped-together-9593131.html
On the ‘right to be forgotten’…
“…if you were to visit Google via a proxy from another country — or even just deliberately access an international version of the search engine based outside the EU — you would be able to see the full search results.” Huffpost
@Huppenstop
Yes, presumably unrelated or else the Elm House references would certainly have been removed.
The ROI location suggested is Birr Castle.
I don’t think it’s in the report, but it is referenced in this book here, yes:-
http://books.google.ie/books?id=tmobAQAAMAAJ&q=kincora+boys+home+birr&dq=kincora+boys+home+birr&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8AK_U9f9MtLY7AbRqIDgCA&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA
Birr “…an area controlled by the Provisional IRA”. The book’s obviously deeply knowledgeable of the Dark Web, lolz
Also right to be forgotten only impacts European google searches, not too difficult to search properly.
It is interesting that on the front page of the google search there is one article from the Telegraph on MPs expenses. It’s just weird that it doesn’t contain any reference to Gary Walker at all, but there it is in the middle of the other links to websites discussing the list.
Weird indeed.
The whole gay/paedophilia thing is a difficult one. Some gay men are paedophiles, it’s a sad fact. As we have seen in recent years.
The true facts of the Elm House guesthouse in London, have also to be uncovered. What may be revealed could shake British society to its very foundations.
The ‘paedophile information exchange’ group campaigned as a ‘civil rights’ organisation in the 1970’s. The may even have received state funding.