Child sex abuse inquiry: Leon Brittan among senior figures named in files found after child sex abuse review

Former Cabinet minister Leon Brittan has been named in top secret files uncovered following a review into historical child sex abuse in Westminster.

Peter Morrison, who was an aide to Margaret Thatcher, ex-diplomat Sir Peter Hayman and former minister William van Straubenzee are also mentioned in the documents released by the Home Office.

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One of the files relating to Hayman was held by the Cabinet Office but "overlooked" during a previous trawl for information.

Documents that refer to Straubenzee had been earmarked for destruction but National Archives officials flagged them up to the Government.

Kincora

A group of papers that name Morrison, Brittan, Hayman and Straubenzee as well as contain references to the Kincora children's home in Northern Ireland where boys were abused were "found in a separate Cabinet Office store of assorted and unstructured papers".

The admission came after MPs left Westminster for the summer recess.

In a document published on the Government's website, the Home Office said a fresh search of the archives had been carried out after a file emerged earlier this year that should have been submitted to the Wanless and Whittam inquiry into the handling of allegations that prominent figures were child abusers.

Peter Wanless, head of the NSPCC, and Richard Whittam QC, reported last year that they had found no evidence that records were deliberately removed or destroyed.

After examining the latest batch of documents, they said they "found nothing to cause us to alter the conclusions drawn or recommendations made in our review".

But they warned that the emergence of papers after the review had been completed was not "helpful" in giving the public confidence in the process.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/child-sex-abuse-inquiry-leon-brittan-among-senior-figures-named-in-files-found-after-child-sex-abuse-review-31397208.html

Yep, and I bet there are a lot more files that got conviently lost. Cameron must be steaming that people didin't believe him when he called it a 'conspiracy theory'.