Derek Sawyer
Convicted paeodophile Derek Slade, 61, escaped police for years using an alias with the knowledge of a Labour politician at the heart of Britain’s justice system. Derek Sawyer is a man who has acquired key positions on bodies running the capital’s police, magistrates and probation services. He represented all London’s councils on the Metropolitan Police’s public safety board and was made a trustee of two crime prevention youth charities, including Catch 22 – patron the Princess Royal. He is currently chair of the London Region Courts Board, which works with Her Majesty’s Courts Service to achieve effective and efficient administration of the courts.
Sawyer, former Labour leader of Islington Council, helped Slade maintain a fake identity after Slade was first convicted of abuse in the Eighties. The politician even set up a limited company – International British Educational Projects (IBEP) – with the paedophile that allowed him to work with vulnerable children under his false name with a fake CV and a reference. The pair have a connection that spans four decades.
Sawyer became a Labour councillor in Islington in 1982. Oddly, the ward he represented was St George’s – the same as the name of the school he and Slade founded. He took over the leadership of Islington Council from Margaret Hodge in 1992, when the media revealed that paedophiles had infiltrated all 12 of its children’s homes. Hodge took the flak for the scandal but the role of her successor also now demands closer scrutiny. Although a damning independent inquiry confirmed Islington had employed 26 alleged child pornographers and pimps, the council – now headed by Sawyer – had set its terms of reference and barred it from naming anyone. No one was ever arrested in the UK.
Read more at the link above. Keith Vaz is also mentioned (and there's other news about Vaz here).
Peter Tatchell: ‘While it may be impossible to condone paedophilia, it is time society acknowledged the truth that not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive and harmful.’
There's a huge cover-up about this sort of behaviour amongst our politicians. Dunblane, Haut de la Garenne?
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Derek Sawyer - an absolute disgrace to society. Would be good if he did every one a favour and topped himself. Sick sick man.
2 August 2011 at 22:59http://holliedemandsjustice-robertgreensblog.blogspot.com/
3 August 2011 at 08:41Echoes of the Hollie Greig scandal.
Clive Highfield said...
3 August 2011 at 13:57Has anyone ever asked Sawyer if he's partial to the occasional "midnight feast"?
How is it possible that after all that came out about this man and his "friend" that he even continued to work with organisations such as Catch 22 when he himself claims he didnt know what was going on with his own IBEP organisation! I was a pupil at one of the schools in Swaziland that they infected - these men should BOTH be imprisoned!
20 October 2011 at 18:53Brother Derek Slade, and Brother Derek Sawyer, both Masons, seemed to know each other very well. Did anyone check if Brother Sawyer visited the school in India regularly? Did the pupils in India know Brother Sawyer well ?
9 April 2012 at 10:14Hodge took the flak for the scandal but the role of her successor also now demands closer scrutiny. https://wadeprogram.com/features.html
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