Leon Brittan

Tim Tate on rape & child porn evidence against former Tory Home Secretary Leon Brittan

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Interview with Wiltshire based documentary producer and author on child abuse Tim Tate about former Tory Home Secretary Leon Brittan, who died this week, and his potential involvement in child abuse scandals: Maganlal Solanki, customs officer at Dover, found child pornography tapes on Leon Brittan in mid 1980s, mistook him for an MEP which suggests it may have been after 1989 when Brittan became a European Commissioner; when Home Secretary in 1984 Mr Brittan was handed a paedophile dossier by Geoffery Dickens MP and Brittan resigned in 1986, Brittan was also interviewed by police over 1967 rape allegations before he became an MP; Elm Guest House; Dolphin Square; problems with Theresa May's inquiry; blackmail by intelligence services - Tim Tate on allegations of child pornography against former Tory Home Secretary Leon Brittan who died this week. Leon Brittan – A guest post by Tim Tate on the investigations into and evidence relating to him Posted: January 23, 2015 | Author: Ian Pace | Filed under: Abuse, Conservative Party | Tags: chris fay, Conservative Party, elm guest house, home affairs select committee, Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, leon brittan, Magnal Solanki, paedophile information exchange, tim tate |17 Comments Following the news of the death of Leon Brittan yesterday, the distinguished writer and film maker Tim Tate (author of Child Pornography, sections from which I have earlier posted on here) has written a piece concerning important information he knows concerning the investigations into Brittan, which I am printing here. I am most grateful to Tim Tate for writing this and giving me the permission to post it. I would also like to echo strongly his call for this information to be thoroughly investigated by the Home Affairs Select Committee and the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Tim Tate writes as follows: Last Spring I sat for two hours with a senior detective involved in historic child sexual abuse enquiries. It was not the first time we had met, but on this occasion – and prompted by some highly inaccurate reporting elsewhere – he had decided to be open about the progress of the investigation into allegations about Leon Brittan. His openness, of course, went only so far: we were not speaking on the record, but on conditions of anonymity. I have no way of independently verifying what he told me, but I did not feel at any point that he was either deliberately misleading me or stonewalling my questions. However, what he said – if accurate – is very disturbing: I believe it needs to be taken up by the Home Affairs Select Committee – which has been examining the Home Office’s role in historic allegations of paedophilia – and by the official Historic Abuse Enquiry (assuming it continues). The backdrop to our meeting were allegations in the media that a former Customs Officer had seized child pornography films or videotapes in the early 1980s, one of which “featured” a former Conservative cabinet minister. The customs officer was called Maganal Solanki, who is now in his 80s and in poor health. Mr Solanki’s name was on a 1982 Customs seizure notice which impounded obscene or indecent material sent, by mail, to the UK by a British paedophile based in Holland. A reporter from Express newspapers had tracked down Mr Solanki, doorstepped him and recorded an attempt at interviewing him about the Tricker material. The subsequent reports of this encounter stated that Mr Solanki had claimed that the films or videos depicted the former cabinet minister involved in child sexual abuse. Although the politician was not named, it was evident that he was Leon Brittan. The detective told me that officers had subsequently visited Mr Solanki and asked him about these allegations. According to the detective, Mr Solanki had denied the press version of events and insisted that he could not remember the Tricker seizure, much less had he ever identified Brittan as a participant in filmed child sexual abuse. However, Mr Solanki did – according to the detective – recall stopping Brittan on another occasion as he came into the UK at Dover. Further, Mr Solanki had searched Brittan’s car and had found child pornography tapes. He viewed these and was able – with some embarrassment – to describe their contents: boys and girls, under the age of 12, being filmed having sex with each other. He impounded the tapes as indecent or obscene material. https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/leon-brittan-a-guest-post-by-tim-tate-on-the-investigations-into-and-evidence-relating-to-him/