Top barrister to review controversial decision not to charge Labour peer Lord Janner over historic sex abuse allegations
- Director of Public Prosecutions had claimed peer was too ill to face trial
- But the decision was slammed by abuse victims and campaigning MPs
- Crown Prosecution Service announced today that an independent review of the decision not to prosecute Lord Janner would be carried out
- The decision could see the 86-year-old Labour peer dragged to court
A
senior barrister has been brought in to review the controversial
decision of Britain's top prosecutor not to charge Lord Janner over
alleged child sex crimes.
In
a move that could see the Labour peer dragged before the courts, the
Crown Prosecution Service announced that the unnamed QC had been hired
to give an independent assessment of the case.
The
barrister - who has had no previous involvement with the case – will
decide whether or not it is in the public interest to charge the former
Labour MP because of his increasingly severe dementia.
Police investigations in 1991, 2002
and 2007 had uncovered sufficient evidence to charge Lord Janner with
sexual offences, but the peer - who is suffering from Alzheimer's - is
now considered too ill to face prosecution
The
move comes after victims challenged the decision of Alison Saunders,
the Director of Public Prosecutions, not to proceed with the case
because of the peer's illness.
Ms
Saunders has insisted that her decision was justified because Lord
Janner - who is suffering from Alzheimer's - is too ill to stand trial.
The peer is also said to be too unwell to face any meaningful sentence
if he was prosecuted.
But
if the review rules that Ms Saunders' decision was wrong, the peer will
face the prospect of a trial over the alleged sex crimes committed over
several decades.
Ms
Saunders announced last month that she believed police investigations in
1991, 2002 and 2007 had uncovered sufficient evidence to charge Lord
Janner with sexual offences.
She
said it was a matter of 'deep regret' the police evidence was never
tested in court but said it was not in the public interest to prosecute
him now.
The 86-year-old peer's family insists he is innocent of any wrongdoing.
Campaigning Labour MP Simon Danczuk 'cautiously welcomed' the decision to review the case.
He
told MailOnline: 'I'm still of the view we should come up with a way of
prosecuting Lord Janner for the alleged sex crimes. I hope the
independent QC reached the right decision.'
Alison
Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions (left), has been slammed
by MPs - including Simon Danczuk (right) over her decision not to
proceed with the case against Lord Janner because of the peer's illness
Announcing
the decision to hire the QC, who is not being named until after their
assessment of the Janner case is completed, the Crown Prosecution
Service said the move was in line a 'right to review' policy introduced
in 2013.
It allows any alleged victim to request a review of a prosecution decision not to charge the suspect in their case.
A
CPS spokeswoman said: 'The CPS Victims' Right to Review scheme was set
up to give complainants the ability to ask the CPS to review its
decisions – usually when there has been a decision not to prosecute.
'The
CPS has been asked to invoke this process in the case of Lord Janner
and that review is now taking place. This review would normally be done
by the CPS Appeals Unit. However, due to the unique circumstances
surrounding this case, the CPS has instructed external counsel instead.'
CPS
guidelines say that such reviews should normally take around 30 days,
but that longer could be required in more complex cases.
3 comments:
I was reading Ada Bimko's autobiography (lying bitch of Belsen) and guess who's name cropped up?...That's right little Lord Janner. But not in his capacity as vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and founder of the Holocaust Education Trust, but rather as an 18 year old yid in a British army uniform who was visiting Bergen-Belsen at weekends and showing such an interest in the children there that the Jews of the camp asked him to take charge of childrens' activities, which he gladly did.
So I bought Janner's own autobiography and in it he confirmed what Bimko had written, even going as far as to describe how he organised the Jewish children for kol nidre night in Belsen!
Reading of his dedication to the Jewish kids it occurred to me that his drive to (allegedly) burst the arse off every goy boy that happens his way might be due to a bit of the old revenge for the sins of the fathers as well of course as the usual run-of-the-mill homo desire for fudge-packing.
For instance try this passage (no pun intended)...
Quote:
"It was then that I first hated Bevin. I had met him once with my father, sitting at the next table in the Members' dinning room in the Commons. He speared a potato with his knife and stuck it into his mouth. It was he an his policy that were keeping my children -- because this is how I now regarded them --
in Belsen, forcing my children to stay in the kinderheim, in the building known as RB7, instead of following the beacon of hope to the Promised Land. I determined to do whatever I could to help these youngsters and, when my Army service was over, to fight to destroy the policies of Bevin and his ilk..."
To Life, The memoirs of Greville Janner, p.37
deJennerATE no doubt doing what was done to him in classic victim-cum-predator fashion. Schlong-sux at 8 days old = bad precedent.
'passage' LOL!
'dinning' = le mot juste
Cook report https://youtu.be/pKUatXxvc_g
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