LONDON At last PIE, that courageous
attempt to bring freedom of speech to
Great Britain on one sensitive subject,
after being virtually comatose for over a
year, has folded its wings, and with its
final dissolution the English gutter press
is losing one of its most convenient
“monsters”. But not without one last
salvo of mud-slinging and lies. Faced
with charges of “conspiring to corrupt
public morals” by publishing contact ads
(essentially the same charges that put
Tom O’Carroll behind bars for 16
months), Steven Adrian Smith, O’Carroll’s
successor, apparently decided to
disappear, probably convinced that he
didn’t stand a chance of acquittal
Unfortunately his friends at London’s
Gay Youth Movement claimed in their
little news sheet that he had gone to
Holland to seek political asylum; this was
picked up by the gay press in England
and eventually by the gutter dreadfuls.
“Child-sex case man flees to ‘porn
haven”‘, screamed the sleazy Mail. And
right on cue two well-dressed young
men slaughtering the Queen’s English
appeared on our doorstep here in Holland
and were so unwise as to announce
right off that they were “British
journalists”. They were told, “We don’t
talk to British journalists” and we
ordered them in no uncertain terms off
the property, saying “You’re in The
Netherlands now, not England, and if
you’re not outside that gate in five
seconds we are calling the police.” They
went, but were back that night snooping
around. They chained up the dog so he
had to spend the night in the rain.
There was a photo of
Smith, and of the “House of Shame:
Secret HQ”, presumably of the
“underground international paedophile
organization” — and of a 6-year-old
Netherlands girl who died last month in a
Dutch Holiday Inn from an overdose of
cocaine administered by a Hindustani
which the Mail implied was somehow
connected with Smith!
A week later Murdoch’s Daily Star
announced that Smith was travelling
around with Spartacus owner John
Stamford in his mobile home in Spain. The
only explanation we can come up with
for this fantasy is that the journalists,
meeting in Holland nothing but doors
slammed in their faces and the searing
contempt of nearly everyone, could find
no trace of their quarry and tried to put
the best face on their failure by
maintaining Smith was in a country where he
couldn’t be caught and from which he
couldn’t be extradited.
EXTRACT FROM P.A.N No20 Oct 1984
CHILD DEATH DURING CHILD SEX FILMS (from P.A.N magazine no20 Oct 84)
one of the standard references in this
country, and even contains a chapter by
P.A.N. columnist Dr. Edward Brongersma,
recently told a reporter, in connection
with a sexually motivated child
murder, “Many paedophiles, as a result
of enormous traumas in youth, are
frightened of adults; they have the
tendency to avoid people of their own
age as much as possible and form their
contacts with children.” Also in the
news recently was pediatrician A. Koers,
who said of a little 6-year-old girl who
had been used in some amateur porno
films and died, apparently accidentally,
from an overdose someone had given
her of cocaine, “For Thea Puymbroeck
death was merciful” — presumably because
the sex had been so horrible!
Tom O’Carroll released from jail !! (extract from P.A.N No13 Oct 1982)
LONDON, ENGLAND Tom O’Carroll is at
last free! After serving two-thirds of the
two-year sentence imposed by judge
John Leonard (one of England’s intellectual
heavy-weight mossbacks), he visited
in Norway, then in Wales, trying to
recover from the shattering experience of
a year and a third of solitary confinement
for 23 and one half hours a day and one
half hour of systematic brutalization by
the prison screws. Long live the
indominable spirit of
Tom O’Carrol — and may
British Justice, from the lowliest preparer
of food to the bloated, self-satisfied
Judge Leonard himself, tremble with
shame over what happened to this totally
innocent man.
Apologies for slightly rubbish google translation of dutch article about the poor young girl killed in paedophiles making child sex abuse films..this is about previous post on here:
crap google translation.
A golden future for the porn industry
Twelve years ago, in the summer of 1984, the Dutch government decided to release pornography. All pornography, including child pornography. A proposal that has almost made it.
Annet Speelberg, then chief child and vice squad in Amsterdam, even then a little in regards standing department undertook a lightning action, outside the Corps leadership to. Huge piles of child pornography were, now that could still, seized and displayed, you had a strong stomach or have a sick mind to be able to scroll through it. The sick minds were more than the majority because the metropolitan porn shops complained bitterly: child was half of their trade.
Not that it helped: freedom of the press was considered a greater good than the sexual abuse of children. The Corps leadership was not amused; Speelberg was prevented from working and she disappeared from the scene.
That same summer the U.S. Congress complained about the huge influx of child pornography from the Netherlands. The then Minister of Justice, Korthals Altes, woof the airy way. Although Speelberg said she could roll if she’s finally got staff. Least six networks
The former medical adviser A. Currency tried to tell how serious the situation was. Korthals He was perplexed as later on the street and said, what am I supposed to start with a minister who mid conversation about child says to me: oh come, Doctor Course, Netherlands has always been a trading nation.
In September of that year the six Thea Puymbroeck died. She was abused for photos and videos of child pornography industry and was regularly administered cocaine.
What Speelberg Currency and failed, then came the publicity surrounding the small Thea still good. At the last minute child was still prohibited. Sold commercially since then under the counter, so the profit margin increased breath away.
The then Secretary of State Korthals, Annelien Kappeyne of Coppello, had to make in the adult porn reservations. Namely not to release. Violent porn She said with good reason: it was all the porn become harder and more aggressive in 1984.
Had to, found the folks in the street.
“It’s horrible to say, but there are circumstances in which children become so emotionally damaged that death is merciful, ‘Race said at the time about the death of Thea Puymbroeck.
If Thea was not slain and just continue to operate, she’d been eighteen years. And become very pliable in those things, as we now know all those children with past abuse. Then we can now buy which she is suspended from her ankles, naspelend by three men and possibly a dog pounced, or SS encampment where they should satisfy the most bizarre appetites of the guards, while pretending there’s a little video one orgasm after another to get.
But we do not about to make a fuss because if a girl is over eighteen, we call that adult entertainment. Like every boerenlul nowadays too quiet for suits you so cheap at the whores can go, even though it is known that the majority of prostitutes is now coming from the women and against their will whore whereabouts.
At the Stockholm Congress against sexual exploitation of children was estimated that approximately two million children worldwide are abused. So the porn industry is a golden future, which is a potential willing commodity. And Amsterdam has the scoop: we do not go to the video store, we ge it on cable.
By Pauline Sinnema / October 1, 1996 / ()
From P.A.N No 8 April 1981..
P.I.E trials…
“If the first PIE trial was surprising for its
mildness and the general optimism it gave
to the gay and paedophile community, the
second trial was marked by its severity
and what one can only surmise was a
rather well planned conspiracy among the
conservative heavies of England to distract
attention from the boring turn the PIE
affair had taken. This time the jury was
older, split evenly between men and
women. Prosecutor Price conveniently
forgot what he had told the first jury about
the defendants not “being prosecuted for
being members of (PIE) or for what most
people would think are bizarre and
unpopular views on the desirability of
adults having sex with children.” PIE now
====================================
Pan, Number 8, p.21
————————————
was “sick and a force for evil”, an
organization which attracted “dirty-minded
predators”. The jury was out only
three and a half hours and returned
not-guilty verdicts against Dagnall and the
other defendent but a guilty verdict on
both charges for O’Carroll.
A Punishment to Fit the Crime
Now Judge John Leonard could show himself
for what he was. Pronouncing an unexpectedly
severe prison sentence of two
years, he made no bones about the fact
that O’Carroll was being dealt with harshly
because of his book and because of his
campaigning for law reform and change in
social attitudes. Even The Daily Telegraph
seemed surprised at this turn of events.
“Despite fears that O’Carroll . . .could face
attacks from other prisoners, the Common
Serjeant, Judge John Leonard, Q.C.,
told him, ‘The public would be surprised if
the court took a lenient view of a man who
had such serious intentions as you did.”‘
One might ask Judge Leonard whether he
would have punished Tom O’Carroll less
harshly if he hadn’t been serious — been,
say, one of those exploitative, superficial
paedophiles we are always reading about
– and what role ‘surprise’ or lack of
‘surprise’ on the part of ‘the public’ is
supposed to play in a judge deciding on an
appropriate — and just — sentence.
But by then “the public” had been
whipped up by an altogether different
issue, what has come to be known as “the
red Huddersfield herring”. For months the
Huddersfield police had been making life
miserable for local gays. The old,
established Gemini Club, a meeting place where
gays can dance and socialise, had been
raided night after night, with hundreds of
cartons herded, none too gently, into
police wagons and booked for such
“crimes” as drinking after hours. More
serious charges were made against
several gays supposedly having it off with
each other in the yard outside the Gemini
Club (sex contact between adult males is
legal in England only in a private place
such as a home and only when no more
than two persons are present) and against
one of the owners of the club for sexual
contacts with teenage patrons. Statements
made by a certain Stephen
Skellern, speaking for the police, about
the Gemini Club when it came time for a
new liquor license to be issued sounded
every bit as pathological as Hitler (or
Martin Luther) denouncing the Jews. The
Huddersfield attacks became so rabid that
England’s usually placid gay community
seriously considered moving the next Gay
Pride March planned for London to
Huddersfield in a demonstration of support.
Finally local gays started asking questions
of their members of Parliament. And one
of the persons they asked was the MP
representing Huddersfield, a beafy,
oily Conservative by the name of Geoffrey Dickens.
Whether Dickens had taken an interest
in homosexual affairs before this point is
not known. He gave the usual evasive
statements politicians mouth when confronted
with gay issues, but most likely he
did have some sort of contact with the
Huddersfield police. Perhaps that is where
he was put on to the “Henderson” matter.
While the prosecution at the PIE trial had
been detailing its investigation into the
private papers and lives of various PIE members,
a senior diplomat refered to only by
his alias “Henderson” was mentioned as
having had a substantial porn collection.
The Huddersfield Cover-up No sooner
was O’Carroll sentenced and packed off
to prison than Dickens was on his feet in
the House of Commons demanding the
real identity of “Henderson”, claiming that
the “old boy” network of England was
involved in “the cover-up of the century”.
And wherever Geoffrey went the gutter
press was sure to go. Who was this senior
diplomat? Did he have security clearance?
Could he, using diplomatic privilege, run
kiddie porn films and magazines in and out
of Great Britain? (Why not a small boy
hidden in the diplomatic pouch?) Dickens
demanded that Home Secretary William
Whitelaw name the man. Attorney-General
Sir Michael Havens denied that
there was a cover-up, saying the retired
diplomat “had committed the trivial
offense of sending obscene material
====================================
Pan, Number 8, pp.22-23
————————————
been cautioned at the time, it seemed, and
told not to do it again. But why wasn’t he
brought to court, Dickens asked? Other
people were, but then they didn’t have
protection in high circles.
Actually it was all Show-Biz, for the
identity of the diplomat had long been
revealed by the gutter press itself! Three
months earlier the October 24 issue of a
crime and scandal magazine called Private
Eye carried his photo and, in a major
article headed THE BEAST OF BERLIN, told of
how the police, discovering a package of
kiddie porn addressed to “Mr. Henderson,
95 Linden Gardens, Notting Hill,” had
searched that address and found a huge
collection of erotica, plus 46 quarto-size
books of 80 pages each of written sex
fantasies “which included every
conceivable perversion.”
It turned out that “Henderson” was a
very big fish, indeed — and a member of
PIE. “The man in question,” Private Eye
went on, “is Sir Peter Hayman, KCMG,
CVO, MBE who ended a distinguished
career as British High Commissioner in
Canada from 1970-74. Previously Hayman
held a series of highly delicate posts
including assistant principal to the
Ministry of Home Secretary 1939-41, Personal
Assistant to the Chief Staff Office to the
Minister of Defence 1949-52, member of
the UK delegation to NATO 1952-4,
Director-General of British Information
Services New York 1961-64 and, perhaps
most crucially Minister and Deputy
Commandant in the British Military
Government of West Berlin 1964-66.”
Nobody in the gutter-dreadfuls/political
conservative coalition was so rude as to
point out that this was all stale news. For
days the name and photo of Geoffrey
Dickens was on the front page of almost
every English daily. Would he or wouldn’t
he use his parliamentary priviledge
to do something which, theoretically, no other
British subject could: reveal the identity of
the highly protected “Mr. Henderson”?
Well, he did, and Fleet Street started
printing all the dirt it had been busily
preparing ever since it realized that the old
Private Eye story was saleable in some
sort of new packaging. But now, with matters
on about the level of the kind of
libretto Verdi gloried in during his middle years,
the MP from Huddlesfield,
in one brief press conference, transposed the whole
affair into an opera buffa. Like most witch
hunters he had a rather fully fleshed
skeleton in his own closet. Although he
hadn’t bothered to tell his wife, or his
teenage children, the cuddly Huddersfielder
had been hugging not just one but two Other
Women, met, it seems in a local
loneley-hearts dance hall, and had
decided to leave his wife for OW number
two. He then took off in hiding for “Cornwall
or Devon”, according to one of his
sons, leaving Mary Whitehouse and a
certain Valerie Riches, secretary to something
called the Responsible Society (20,000
members) to sing a sort of unaccompanied
coloratura duet asking for the suppression
of PIE and requesting an interview with
Mrs. Thatcher, of all people, to
accomplish this. Dickens’s mother is
reported to have said simply, “Oh,
Geofery, shut up.”
Scattered Support During the trial one
small group of supporters had appeared
outside the courtoom each day with
home-made signs and leaflets. It was the
Campaign Against Public Morals which
Tom O’Carroll himself had attacked in a
Gay News interview as having turned
against him. This was perhaps not quite
fair, although CAPM was at least as
interested in using the PIE affair to further
its Marxist aims as to support the
defendants in their hour of need. But at least the
CAPM people were there, to be counted
and photographed, which is more than
can be said for the whole rest of England’s
gay and civil libertarian community (See box).
It was left, alas, to a couple of private
individuals, writing for or to the few
Just before this issue of PAN was
typeset we telephoned Roger Moody in
London for the latest developments.
His report follows.
Both Michael Dagnall and Tom
O’Carroll are pleading not guilty in the
affair arising out of their arrests during
the inter-trial period. It would seem to
be a case of obvious public and police
harassment. The two men were swimming
and playing table tennis with a
number of boys near O’Carroll’s home
in Newport Pagnall. Someone recognized
O’Carroll and phoned the police.
The police arrested Dagnall and
O’Carroll and charged them with
“conspiracy to procure children for gross
indecency.” Some of the boys were
questioned and presumably at least
one of them made a statement. The
parents of another, who knew Dagnall,
have refused absolutely to cooperate
with the police. Both O’Carroll and
Dagnall vehemently insist that nothing
“indecent” was ever discussed with
the boys or even contemplated. The
trial is scheduled for some time in April.
Tom O’Carroll is in good spirits and
has been able to have visits. He has been
cast into the infamous Wormwood Scrubbs
Prison (Du Cane Road, London W12) where he
would appreciate receiving letters from his
friends and interested readers of his book.
Wormwood Scrubbs is one Britain’s
worst. It is, among other things, a
remand prison where people denied
bail are packed away awaiting trial and
is well known for its over-crowding and
the harshness of its officers. It’s also a
little short on security; it seems not
long ago many prisoners were simply
slipping out at night and celebrating at
the local pubs. This situation came to
light only when one of the absentees
came back so drunk he couldn’t climb
in over the walls. O’Carroll at the
moment shares a cell with the famous
“M5 rapist”, so-called because he
found his little girl victims along one of
Britain’s busy freeways.
The 19 March issue of New Society,
a leading popular sociology magazine,
in the Supplement for Schools section,
carried an article on paedophilia
entitled, “Do we Repress the Sexuality
of our Young?” It quotes PIE’s statements
and position accurately,
acknowledges that the majority of people
wouldn’t agree but concludes that
views on this matter are better aired
publically than privately
suppressed. In the same issue columnist
“Tail Gunner Parkinson” compared the PIE
trials with the trials of Oscar Wilde. “If
the law claims the right to use its teeth in
dealing with these disturbing problems,
society has the right to be convinced
that they are not false teeth. I would
rather a paedophile knocked on my
front door and asked permission to
seduce my son than secretly plied him
with vodka in the local Scouts hut.”
Parkinson predicts that O’Carroll may
gain a similar stature to Oscar Wilde
once he is out of prison.
By the first of April not one single
gay or civil rights group had yet made
an official statement condemning the
conviction. Campaign for Homosexual
Equality was to issue its statement on
April 3. The National Council for Civil
Liberties, which is probably the largest
civil rights body in Europe at the present
time, will be presenting an
emergency motion to its annual general
meeting on April 11. Barry Prothero,
NCCL’s gay rights officer, says that the
motion is not yet written but it will
certainly condemn the trial, uphold the
right of paedophiles to organise and
demand the release of Tom O’Carroll.
He predicts its swift passage. Finally
Gay Noise, the sprightly, leftist,
well-written homosexual newsletter which
has been firm in its support for the PIE
defendants, has organized an inaugural
meeting of a new campaign to carry on
the struggle for O’Carroll’s release. The
group will also seek to decriminalize all
“victimless crimes” including mutually
consensual sex between partners of
any gender and any age. Leaders and
members from all the major civil
liberties and sex reform organisations have
been invited.”
Gay Noise – a radical late 70s freesheet produced in Brixton. Gay Liberation Front , Brixton Faeries lived in the squats and still live in the railton road area
CGHE (conservative group for homosexual equality) Correspondence between Peter Campbell and local authority councillors.
The file also contains ‘How to Get Money from the GLC and Other Left-Wing Authorities’, pamphlet published by ‘Aims of Industry’, c1984.
HCA/ALBANY TRUST/14/118 || Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) || 1975-1979
Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE)
Date 1975-1979
Description Correspondence.
One letter (and reply) has been closed as it contains personal information.
Access Status Mainly open; some items closed
Extent 10 sheets
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LONDON At last PIE, that courageous
attempt to bring freedom of speech to
Great Britain on one sensitive subject,
after being virtually comatose for over a
year, has folded its wings, and with its
final dissolution the English gutter press
is losing one of its most convenient
“monsters”. But not without one last
salvo of mud-slinging and lies. Faced
with charges of “conspiring to corrupt
public morals” by publishing contact ads
(essentially the same charges that put
Tom O’Carroll behind bars for 16
months), Steven Adrian Smith, O’Carroll’s
successor, apparently decided to
disappear, probably convinced that he
didn’t stand a chance of acquittal
Unfortunately his friends at London’s
Gay Youth Movement claimed in their
little news sheet that he had gone to
Holland to seek political asylum; this was
picked up by the gay press in England
and eventually by the gutter dreadfuls.
“Child-sex case man flees to ‘porn
haven”‘, screamed the sleazy Mail. And
right on cue two well-dressed young
men slaughtering the Queen’s English
appeared on our doorstep here in Holland
and were so unwise as to announce
right off that they were “British
journalists”. They were told, “We don’t
talk to British journalists” and we
ordered them in no uncertain terms off
the property, saying “You’re in The
Netherlands now, not England, and if
you’re not outside that gate in five
seconds we are calling the police.” They
went, but were back that night snooping
around. They chained up the dog so he
had to spend the night in the rain.
There was a photo of
Smith, and of the “House of Shame:
Secret HQ”, presumably of the
“underground international paedophile
organization” — and of a 6-year-old
Netherlands girl who died last month in a
Dutch Holiday Inn from an overdose of
cocaine administered by a Hindustani
which the Mail implied was somehow
connected with Smith!
A week later Murdoch’s Daily Star
announced that Smith was travelling
around with Spartacus owner John
Stamford in his mobile home in Spain. The
only explanation we can come up with
for this fantasy is that the journalists,
meeting in Holland nothing but doors
slammed in their faces and the searing
contempt of nearly everyone, could find
no trace of their quarry and tried to put
the best face on their failure by
maintaining Smith was in a country where he
couldn’t be caught and from which he
couldn’t be extradited.
EXTRACT FROM P.A.N No20 Oct 1984
CHILD DEATH DURING CHILD SEX FILMS (from P.A.N magazine no20 Oct 84)
one of the standard references in this
country, and even contains a chapter by
P.A.N. columnist Dr. Edward Brongersma,
recently told a reporter, in connection
with a sexually motivated child
murder, “Many paedophiles, as a result
of enormous traumas in youth, are
frightened of adults; they have the
tendency to avoid people of their own
age as much as possible and form their
contacts with children.” Also in the
news recently was pediatrician A. Koers,
who said of a little 6-year-old girl who
had been used in some amateur porno
films and died, apparently accidentally,
from an overdose someone had given
her of cocaine, “For Thea Puymbroeck
death was merciful” — presumably because
the sex had been so horrible!
Tom O’Carroll released from jail !! (extract from P.A.N No13 Oct 1982)
LONDON, ENGLAND Tom O’Carroll is at
last free! After serving two-thirds of the
two-year sentence imposed by judge
John Leonard (one of England’s intellectual
heavy-weight mossbacks), he visited
in Norway, then in Wales, trying to
recover from the shattering experience of
a year and a third of solitary confinement
for 23 and one half hours a day and one
half hour of systematic brutalization by
the prison screws. Long live the
indominable spirit of
Tom O’Carrol — and may
British Justice, from the lowliest preparer
of food to the bloated, self-satisfied
Judge Leonard himself, tremble with
shame over what happened to this totally
innocent man.
Apologies for slightly rubbish google translation of dutch article about the poor young girl killed in paedophiles making child sex abuse films..this is about previous post on here:
crap google translation.
A golden future for the porn industry
Twelve years ago, in the summer of 1984, the Dutch government decided to release pornography. All pornography, including child pornography. A proposal that has almost made it.
Annet Speelberg, then chief child and vice squad in Amsterdam, even then a little in regards standing department undertook a lightning action, outside the Corps leadership to. Huge piles of child pornography were, now that could still, seized and displayed, you had a strong stomach or have a sick mind to be able to scroll through it. The sick minds were more than the majority because the metropolitan porn shops complained bitterly: child was half of their trade.
Not that it helped: freedom of the press was considered a greater good than the sexual abuse of children. The Corps leadership was not amused; Speelberg was prevented from working and she disappeared from the scene.
That same summer the U.S. Congress complained about the huge influx of child pornography from the Netherlands. The then Minister of Justice, Korthals Altes, woof the airy way. Although Speelberg said she could roll if she’s finally got staff. Least six networks
The former medical adviser A. Currency tried to tell how serious the situation was. Korthals He was perplexed as later on the street and said, what am I supposed to start with a minister who mid conversation about child says to me: oh come, Doctor Course, Netherlands has always been a trading nation.
In September of that year the six Thea Puymbroeck died. She was abused for photos and videos of child pornography industry and was regularly administered cocaine.
What Speelberg Currency and failed, then came the publicity surrounding the small Thea still good. At the last minute child was still prohibited. Sold commercially since then under the counter, so the profit margin increased breath away.
The then Secretary of State Korthals, Annelien Kappeyne of Coppello, had to make in the adult porn reservations. Namely not to release. Violent porn She said with good reason: it was all the porn become harder and more aggressive in 1984.
Had to, found the folks in the street.
“It’s horrible to say, but there are circumstances in which children become so emotionally damaged that death is merciful, ‘Race said at the time about the death of Thea Puymbroeck.
If Thea was not slain and just continue to operate, she’d been eighteen years. And become very pliable in those things, as we now know all those children with past abuse. Then we can now buy which she is suspended from her ankles, naspelend by three men and possibly a dog pounced, or SS encampment where they should satisfy the most bizarre appetites of the guards, while pretending there’s a little video one orgasm after another to get.
But we do not about to make a fuss because if a girl is over eighteen, we call that adult entertainment. Like every boerenlul nowadays too quiet for suits you so cheap at the whores can go, even though it is known that the majority of prostitutes is now coming from the women and against their will whore whereabouts.
At the Stockholm Congress against sexual exploitation of children was estimated that approximately two million children worldwide are abused. So the porn industry is a golden future, which is a potential willing commodity. And Amsterdam has the scoop: we do not go to the video store, we ge it on cable.
By Pauline Sinnema / October 1, 1996 / ()
From P.A.N No 8 April 1981..
P.I.E trials…
“If the first PIE trial was surprising for its
mildness and the general optimism it gave
to the gay and paedophile community, the
second trial was marked by its severity
and what one can only surmise was a
rather well planned conspiracy among the
conservative heavies of England to distract
attention from the boring turn the PIE
affair had taken. This time the jury was
older, split evenly between men and
women. Prosecutor Price conveniently
forgot what he had told the first jury about
the defendants not “being prosecuted for
being members of (PIE) or for what most
people would think are bizarre and
unpopular views on the desirability of
adults having sex with children.” PIE now
====================================
Pan, Number 8, p.21
————————————
was “sick and a force for evil”, an
organization which attracted “dirty-minded
predators”. The jury was out only
three and a half hours and returned
not-guilty verdicts against Dagnall and the
other defendent but a guilty verdict on
both charges for O’Carroll.
A Punishment to Fit the Crime
Now Judge John Leonard could show himself
for what he was. Pronouncing an unexpectedly
severe prison sentence of two
years, he made no bones about the fact
that O’Carroll was being dealt with harshly
because of his book and because of his
campaigning for law reform and change in
social attitudes. Even The Daily Telegraph
seemed surprised at this turn of events.
“Despite fears that O’Carroll . . .could face
attacks from other prisoners, the Common
Serjeant, Judge John Leonard, Q.C.,
told him, ‘The public would be surprised if
the court took a lenient view of a man who
had such serious intentions as you did.”‘
One might ask Judge Leonard whether he
would have punished Tom O’Carroll less
harshly if he hadn’t been serious — been,
say, one of those exploitative, superficial
paedophiles we are always reading about
– and what role ‘surprise’ or lack of
‘surprise’ on the part of ‘the public’ is
supposed to play in a judge deciding on an
appropriate — and just — sentence.
But by then “the public” had been
whipped up by an altogether different
issue, what has come to be known as “the
red Huddersfield herring”. For months the
Huddersfield police had been making life
miserable for local gays. The old,
established Gemini Club, a meeting place where
gays can dance and socialise, had been
raided night after night, with hundreds of
cartons herded, none too gently, into
police wagons and booked for such
“crimes” as drinking after hours. More
serious charges were made against
several gays supposedly having it off with
each other in the yard outside the Gemini
Club (sex contact between adult males is
legal in England only in a private place
such as a home and only when no more
than two persons are present) and against
one of the owners of the club for sexual
contacts with teenage patrons. Statements
made by a certain Stephen
Skellern, speaking for the police, about
the Gemini Club when it came time for a
new liquor license to be issued sounded
every bit as pathological as Hitler (or
Martin Luther) denouncing the Jews. The
Huddersfield attacks became so rabid that
England’s usually placid gay community
seriously considered moving the next Gay
Pride March planned for London to
Huddersfield in a demonstration of support.
Finally local gays started asking questions
of their members of Parliament. And one
of the persons they asked was the MP
representing Huddersfield, a beafy,
oily Conservative by the name of Geoffrey Dickens.
Whether Dickens had taken an interest
in homosexual affairs before this point is
not known. He gave the usual evasive
statements politicians mouth when confronted
with gay issues, but most likely he
did have some sort of contact with the
Huddersfield police. Perhaps that is where
he was put on to the “Henderson” matter.
While the prosecution at the PIE trial had
been detailing its investigation into the
private papers and lives of various PIE members,
a senior diplomat refered to only by
his alias “Henderson” was mentioned as
having had a substantial porn collection.
The Huddersfield Cover-up No sooner
was O’Carroll sentenced and packed off
to prison than Dickens was on his feet in
the House of Commons demanding the
real identity of “Henderson”, claiming that
the “old boy” network of England was
involved in “the cover-up of the century”.
And wherever Geoffrey went the gutter
press was sure to go. Who was this senior
diplomat? Did he have security clearance?
Could he, using diplomatic privilege, run
kiddie porn films and magazines in and out
of Great Britain? (Why not a small boy
hidden in the diplomatic pouch?) Dickens
demanded that Home Secretary William
Whitelaw name the man. Attorney-General
Sir Michael Havens denied that
there was a cover-up, saying the retired
diplomat “had committed the trivial
offense of sending obscene material
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been cautioned at the time, it seemed, and
told not to do it again. But why wasn’t he
brought to court, Dickens asked? Other
people were, but then they didn’t have
protection in high circles.
Actually it was all Show-Biz, for the
identity of the diplomat had long been
revealed by the gutter press itself! Three
months earlier the October 24 issue of a
crime and scandal magazine called Private
Eye carried his photo and, in a major
article headed THE BEAST OF BERLIN, told of
how the police, discovering a package of
kiddie porn addressed to “Mr. Henderson,
95 Linden Gardens, Notting Hill,” had
searched that address and found a huge
collection of erotica, plus 46 quarto-size
books of 80 pages each of written sex
fantasies “which included every
conceivable perversion.”
It turned out that “Henderson” was a
very big fish, indeed — and a member of
PIE. “The man in question,” Private Eye
went on, “is Sir Peter Hayman, KCMG,
CVO, MBE who ended a distinguished
career as British High Commissioner in
Canada from 1970-74. Previously Hayman
held a series of highly delicate posts
including assistant principal to the
Ministry of Home Secretary 1939-41, Personal
Assistant to the Chief Staff Office to the
Minister of Defence 1949-52, member of
the UK delegation to NATO 1952-4,
Director-General of British Information
Services New York 1961-64 and, perhaps
most crucially Minister and Deputy
Commandant in the British Military
Government of West Berlin 1964-66.”
Nobody in the gutter-dreadfuls/political
conservative coalition was so rude as to
point out that this was all stale news. For
days the name and photo of Geoffrey
Dickens was on the front page of almost
every English daily. Would he or wouldn’t
he use his parliamentary priviledge
to do something which, theoretically, no other
British subject could: reveal the identity of
the highly protected “Mr. Henderson”?
Well, he did, and Fleet Street started
printing all the dirt it had been busily
preparing ever since it realized that the old
Private Eye story was saleable in some
sort of new packaging. But now, with matters
on about the level of the kind of
libretto Verdi gloried in during his middle years,
the MP from Huddlesfield,
in one brief press conference, transposed the whole
affair into an opera buffa. Like most witch
hunters he had a rather fully fleshed
skeleton in his own closet. Although he
hadn’t bothered to tell his wife, or his
teenage children, the cuddly Huddersfielder
had been hugging not just one but two Other
Women, met, it seems in a local
loneley-hearts dance hall, and had
decided to leave his wife for OW number
two. He then took off in hiding for “Cornwall
or Devon”, according to one of his
sons, leaving Mary Whitehouse and a
certain Valerie Riches, secretary to something
called the Responsible Society (20,000
members) to sing a sort of unaccompanied
coloratura duet asking for the suppression
of PIE and requesting an interview with
Mrs. Thatcher, of all people, to
accomplish this. Dickens’s mother is
reported to have said simply, “Oh,
Geofery, shut up.”
Scattered Support During the trial one
small group of supporters had appeared
outside the courtoom each day with
home-made signs and leaflets. It was the
Campaign Against Public Morals which
Tom O’Carroll himself had attacked in a
Gay News interview as having turned
against him. This was perhaps not quite
fair, although CAPM was at least as
interested in using the PIE affair to further
its Marxist aims as to support the
defendants in their hour of need. But at least the
CAPM people were there, to be counted
and photographed, which is more than
can be said for the whole rest of England’s
gay and civil libertarian community (See box).
It was left, alas, to a couple of private
individuals, writing for or to the few
Just before this issue of PAN was
typeset we telephoned Roger Moody in
London for the latest developments.
His report follows.
Both Michael Dagnall and Tom
O’Carroll are pleading not guilty in the
affair arising out of their arrests during
the inter-trial period. It would seem to
be a case of obvious public and police
harassment. The two men were swimming
and playing table tennis with a
number of boys near O’Carroll’s home
in Newport Pagnall. Someone recognized
O’Carroll and phoned the police.
The police arrested Dagnall and
O’Carroll and charged them with
“conspiracy to procure children for gross
indecency.” Some of the boys were
questioned and presumably at least
one of them made a statement. The
parents of another, who knew Dagnall,
have refused absolutely to cooperate
with the police. Both O’Carroll and
Dagnall vehemently insist that nothing
“indecent” was ever discussed with
the boys or even contemplated. The
trial is scheduled for some time in April.
Tom O’Carroll is in good spirits and
has been able to have visits. He has been
cast into the infamous Wormwood Scrubbs
Prison (Du Cane Road, London W12) where he
would appreciate receiving letters from his
friends and interested readers of his book.
Wormwood Scrubbs is one Britain’s
worst. It is, among other things, a
remand prison where people denied
bail are packed away awaiting trial and
is well known for its over-crowding and
the harshness of its officers. It’s also a
little short on security; it seems not
long ago many prisoners were simply
slipping out at night and celebrating at
the local pubs. This situation came to
light only when one of the absentees
came back so drunk he couldn’t climb
in over the walls. O’Carroll at the
moment shares a cell with the famous
“M5 rapist”, so-called because he
found his little girl victims along one of
Britain’s busy freeways.
The 19 March issue of New Society,
a leading popular sociology magazine,
in the Supplement for Schools section,
carried an article on paedophilia
entitled, “Do we Repress the Sexuality
of our Young?” It quotes PIE’s statements
and position accurately,
acknowledges that the majority of people
wouldn’t agree but concludes that
views on this matter are better aired
publically than privately
suppressed. In the same issue columnist
“Tail Gunner Parkinson” compared the PIE
trials with the trials of Oscar Wilde. “If
the law claims the right to use its teeth in
dealing with these disturbing problems,
society has the right to be convinced
that they are not false teeth. I would
rather a paedophile knocked on my
front door and asked permission to
seduce my son than secretly plied him
with vodka in the local Scouts hut.”
Parkinson predicts that O’Carroll may
gain a similar stature to Oscar Wilde
once he is out of prison.
By the first of April not one single
gay or civil rights group had yet made
an official statement condemning the
conviction. Campaign for Homosexual
Equality was to issue its statement on
April 3. The National Council for Civil
Liberties, which is probably the largest
civil rights body in Europe at the present
time, will be presenting an
emergency motion to its annual general
meeting on April 11. Barry Prothero,
NCCL’s gay rights officer, says that the
motion is not yet written but it will
certainly condemn the trial, uphold the
right of paedophiles to organise and
demand the release of Tom O’Carroll.
He predicts its swift passage. Finally
Gay Noise, the sprightly, leftist,
well-written homosexual newsletter which
has been firm in its support for the PIE
defendants, has organized an inaugural
meeting of a new campaign to carry on
the struggle for O’Carroll’s release. The
group will also seek to decriminalize all
“victimless crimes” including mutually
consensual sex between partners of
any gender and any age. Leaders and
members from all the major civil
liberties and sex reform organisations have
been invited.”
Gay Noise – a radical late 70s freesheet produced in Brixton. Gay Liberation Front , Brixton Faeries lived in the squats and still live in the railton road area
CGHE (conservative group for homosexual equality) Correspondence between Peter Campbell and local authority councillors.
The file also contains ‘How to Get Money from the GLC and Other Left-Wing Authorities’, pamphlet published by ‘Aims of Industry’, c1984.
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GHANA A place for dutch paedophiles
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how does a 6 yr old child ‘accidently’ die from an overdose of cocaine? ….these sick paedos have no shame..psychopaths……
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