Policing Child Sexual Abuse by Paul Bleakley

Author:Paul Bleakley [Bleakley, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000442502
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

said to [them] under no circumstances whatsoever are [Dickson and Goldup] to conduct any investigation … into any member of the judiciary or legal fraternity unless [Huey was] supplied a copy of the search warrants or your intended search warrants 48 hours prior to [beginning].49

Such restrictions were, in Dickson and Goldup’s mind, designed to constrain their ability to do their job or, worse, a way for the force to be alerted with enough time to stop the investigation or even warn the suspects in advance. Huey, for his part, denies having given this instruction for the precise reason that providing 48 hours’ notice would risk compromising any searches in the same way that occurred in Operation Firefighter.50 It is possible that the friction between the Paedophile Task Force and Huey was, in fact, the result of a misunderstanding wherein Huey required advance notice of the intention to apply for a warrant, not a copy of the warrant itself, a minor yet significant distinction. For whatever reason, perhaps related to the existing bad blood between Huey and Dickson, the instruction to Dickson and Goldup left the task force with the impression that senior police were obstructing their ability to investigate organised paedophilia.

Despite his frustration at being (seemingly) prevented from searching R3-F’s premises, Dickson continued his investigation into him, as well as other judges he suspected were involved in child sex offences. Former colleagues in the task force like Gerald Biazos note that there were never any “concrete grounds” for Dickson’s belief that paedophilia was rampant in the judiciary. When quizzed on the reasons for focusing on R3-F, Biazos said Dickson was “nonspecific” and based his position mostly on R3-F’s tenuous links to Kenafake as well as certain judgements that the judge had previously made in child sexual abuse trials.51 Despite his own personal doubts, Biazos was one of many officers serving under Dickson who was instructed to conduct surveillance on R3-F’s property. Shortly after Huey took control of the Metropolitan CIB in October 1989, he demanded that the Paedophile Task Force provided substantive evidence before acting on judges. In December 1989, Goldup noted an anonymous caller to the task force who registered a “strong belief” that a man living at an address provided was a paedophile – it was R3-F’s address. The caller’s tip prompted a new wave of police surveillance, something Kimmins later described as “extremely fortuitous in terms of Huey’s demands for evidence … it smacks of invention”.52 As far as Kimmins was concerned, the supposed “tip-off” about R3-F was the creation of someone in the Paedophile Task Force who, absent hard evidence, sought to create some to justify continuing the investigation. In the past, police had been accused of taking a lack of interest in investigating paedophilia, yet here was the exact opposite: a permanent child sexual abuse team being accused of fabricating evidence in order to vindicate their aggressive, proactive targeting of suspected child abusers. The creation of the Paedophile Task Force had resulted in a total

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