Tuesday, 8 July 2014

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"There was a lot of threatening people to stop investigations. The frighteners were put on people."

Paedophile row

Dickens warned child abuse campaigners 'powerful people' would target them

Dickens outside parliament just after he used parliamentary privilege to name British diplomat Peter Hayman as a paedophile

Geoffrey Dickens warned other campaigners against child sex abuse they could be targeted by "powerful people", years after he handed in information about an alleged Westminster paedophile ring

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