

November 2012: The CPS reveals it considered Smith allegations in 1970, 19. November 2012: Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk uses parliamentary privilege to claim Cyril Smith, right, sexually abused boys. October 2012: Labour MP Tom Watson claims at Prime Minister’s Questions there is ‘clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10’ and that a ‘senior aide to a former prime minister’ had links to a child sex gang member. September and October 2012: Jimmy Savile abuse scandal breaks. The late Liberal MP Cyril Smith is one public figure widely alleged to have abused children from Grafton Close at the Elm Guest House.Ī Metropolitan Police spokesman said the force was ‘not in a position to comment’ about Mr Mehota’s claims.Īllegations of a VIP paedophile ring 30 years ago are being investigated by Scotland Yard through Operation Fairbank, launched two years.Īs well as Elm Guest House, some of the abuse allegedly took place at flats in Dolphin Square, Pimlico, where some politicians had London homes. Mrs Kasir - who killed herself in 1990 - later admitted to child protection officers that children from the council-run Grafton Close Children’s Home had been taken to the brothel and gave them names of people who had visited the guesthouse. The owners of the Elm Guest House, Carole and Harry Kasir, were fined £1,000 each and given suspended nine-month sentences at the Old Bailey but were found not guilty of running a brothel. West Sussex coroner Mark Calvert Lee recorded an open verdict at an inquest but said he believed ‘foul play’ was likely. In May 1983, as police wound up the inquiry into Vishal Mehrotra’s death. The Metropolitan Police announced last week that it is investigating the possibility of murders linked to the Elm Guest House. He was missing his legs, pelvis and lower spine - and much of his clothing, including his Superman underpants were also gone.įour months after Vishal’s body was found, police raided Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London, and questioned dozens of men including a number of high profile individuals.Įarlier this month, another victim came forward alleging to have witnessed the murder of three boys including one who was strangled by a Conservative MP during a sex game.

That surely is astonishing.'ĭolphin Square, where boys are said to have been taken for sex sessions in the 1970s and 1980s All that evidence simply disappeared after the raid. 'She had logbooks, names, times, dates, pictures of her customers and so on. One of them allegedly showed a former cabinet minister in the sauna with a naked boy. 'And that she had all kinds of photographs of establishment figures at her hotel. 'He said that he'd been told by Mrs Kasir that boys had been brought in from the local children's home for sex. In a backbench debate on the progress of the Government's inquiry into historic child sex abuse, Mr Goldsmith told the Commons: 'When Mrs Kasir died a few years after the house was raided in very odd circumstances, a child protection campaigner from the National Association of Young People in Care called for a criminal investigation into events at Elm Guest House. Mrs Kasir then died a few years later in 'very odd circumstances', he said.

Mr Goldsmith said evidence from 12 boys alleging abuse had also 'evaporated' and Mrs Kasir and her husband Haroon were eventually given suspended sentences for 'running a disorderly house'. Tory Zac Goldsmith claimed that a child protection campaigner had been told by one of the owners of the Elm Guest House, Carol Kasir, that she had photographs of 'establishment figures' at the hotel where boys in care had been 'brought in for sex'.īut the evidence, along with logbooks, names, times, dates and photographs of Mrs Kasir's customers simply disappeared after a 1982 police raid on the guesthouse. A VIP paedophile ring allegedly abused children at the The Elm Guest House in LondonĪ former cabinet minister was photographed with a naked boy in the sauna of a guesthouse at the centre of historic child sex abuse allegations, an MP has said.
