VIP paedophile files: The sick web of high-powered and well-connected child abusers

As the Sunday People leads the way in uncovering a sickening network of child abusers in Westminster, we look at how the cases are connected

Connected: The Westminster paedophiles

Since Labour MP Tom Watson stood up in the Commons in October 2012 to ask Prime Minister David Cameron to probe a high-powered ­paedophile ring with links to Number 10, the Sunday People has led the way.

We have produced a string of exclusive stories tracking the progress of Operation Fairbank and its offshoots.

Shocking revelations about the Elm Guest House dominated the early part of our investigation as traumatised victims came forward.

They claim the property in Barnes, south-west London, was used by a host of Establishment figures who attended sex-abuse parties there.

Among the names said to have visited the infamous site were Leon Brittan, Cyril Smith, Anthony Blunt, Nicholas Fairbairn and Sir Peter Morrison.

Elm Guest House was run by Carole Kasir , who later died of an apparent insulin overdose.

It was the subject of Met Police operations but none of its VIP visitors were arrested. And it was only after Operation Fairbank got going that victims’ claims were seriously investigated.

Among the accused were John Stingemore , now dead, who worked at the Grafton Close care home near the Elm Guest House and allegedly supplied boys for the site.

Colin Peters , a Foreign Office barrister, was also named as an ­alleged Elm House regular while notorious paedophile Sidney Cooke was linked to providing boys for VIP sex parties in London.

As our investigation progressed it became clear there were a number of higher-profile names involved in paedophile networks.

Sir Rhodes Boyson allegedly ­featured in the Geoffrey Dickens dossier handed to the Home Office in 1983.

Another name that came up was Peter Righton , a key Establishment figure as consultant to the National Children’s Bureau.

He was also part of the infamous Paedophile Information Exchange, which ­campaigned to lower the age of sexual consent to 10.

One of his associates, a former Treasurer of PIE, was Charles Napier – jailed last December for a string of offences against boys.

Late last year, we also broke the story of Leon Brittan’s alleged ­involvement in child abuse.

The former Home Secretary was named by a victim who said he had been abused by Brittan at a sex party at a luxury flat in Dolphin Square at Pimlico, central London.

It later emerged a Metropolitan police operation into Brittan’s ­activities had been dropped.

Also linked to Dolphin Square was disgraced diplomat Peter Hayman , another member of PIE.

Cover-ups at the Met involving VIP paedophiles are now being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

And the Sunday People will ­continue to lead the way in exposing Britain’s biggest scandal for decades.

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