If former policemen are to be believed a full blown investigation into child abuse by Cyril Smith and others was stopped dead on the orders of a senior policeman.
The police officers on the case were ordered to hand over all evidence and never speak about it, citing the official secrets act.
At one stage smith was arrested and spirited out of a police station like some untouchable communist commissar.
The speculation is that he could have brought other powerful people down with him hence the protection.
But just who can wield this kind of power in our country, this so called democracy that we all (most of us) thought that we lived in.
The police officers on the case were ordered to hand over all evidence and never speak about it, citing the official secrets act.
At one stage smith was arrested and spirited out of a police station like some untouchable communist commissar.
The speculation is that he could have brought other powerful people down with him hence the protection.
But just who can wield this kind of power in our country, this so called democracy that we all (most of us) thought that we lived in.