'Police believe there is a network of four secret rooms at the home but have struggled to access the bricked-up chambers.
Fragments of bone, blood spots and graffiti reading "I've been bad for years and years" were found in the first room.
Police are still awaiting tests on the bone and blood samples to help them trace and date the finds.'
Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, North Eastern England, the Midlands, Islington - the list goes on and on for years and years.
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It looks as though A v Hoare [2008] will have an effect on the situation.
I understand the Kincora business, hinted at by Private Eye many times, has never been publicly sorted.
So Suffolk, Yorkshire and Wandsworth join the terrible list and, if I have grasped Lord Hoffman's judgement, unanimously supported by the other Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, the limitation of time in which cases against alleged abusers can be brought has been extended from the remarkably short 3 (or in some circumstances 6) years formerly permitted.
As is said by:
"BARONESS HALE OF RICHMOND
My Lords,
# Until the 1970s people were reluctant to believe that child sexual abuse took place at all. Now we know only too well that it does. But it remains hard to protect children from it. This is because the perpetrators are so often people in authority over the victims, sometimes people whom the victims love and trust. These perpetrators have many ways, some subtle and some not so subtle, of making their victims keep quiet about what they have suffered. The abuse itself is the reason why so many victims do not come forward until years after the event. This presents a challenge to a legal system which resists stale claims. Six years, let alone three, from reaching the age of majority is not long enough, especially since the age of majority was reduced from 21 to 18."
That so much has been sheltered behind a claim that no accusation can be entertained after so few years, when the accusation might involve the abuse of victims when so vulnerable and so young, is spine-chilling; that this rule can be derived from 17th century legislation, regularly refreshed, raises the demand why has it been set aside only in 2008?
Thank you 14.56 for giving the link.
This all has implications for localism, & Raedwald and I have had a short exchange chez lui on the same
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