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Home Office funded paedophilia group, whistleblower says
The Home Office secretly gave £30,000 to a group campaigning to legalise paedophilia in the late 1970s, a former civil servant has claimed.
Tim Hulbert told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that he had seen the payment on a spreadsheet.
He said the money for the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) had been marked as a grant to another group.
But the inquiry also heard that a review of his claims had failed to find documentary evidence to support them.
Civil servant Mike Box, who had assisted a 2014 review of allegations of historical child sexual abuse within Westminster, said no trace of any payment to PIE had been found in government records from the era.
How the child sexual abuse inquiry works
This strand of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in British institutions is looking at allegations linked to Westminster - and whether there has ever been a cover-up.
Mr Hulbert worked for the Voluntary Services Unit (VSU) - the body responsible for deciding which UK voluntary organisations should receive government funding - during the 1970s and 1980s.
He said that a colleague who was new to the VSU, Alan Davies, made him aware of the grant to PIE. "[Alan Davies] and I got on well and used to talk informally about things we were working on," Mr Hulbert continued.
"I believe, though I cannot be sure, that it was during one of these informal chats over coffee that I discovered the unit was funding PIE - about which I knew little except that it was an organisation campaigning for the lowering of the age of consent to four."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47695510
The Home Office secretly gave £30,000 to a group campaigning to legalise paedophilia in the late 1970s, a former civil servant has claimed.
Tim Hulbert told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that he had seen the payment on a spreadsheet.
He said the money for the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) had been marked as a grant to another group.
But the inquiry also heard that a review of his claims had failed to find documentary evidence to support them.
Civil servant Mike Box, who had assisted a 2014 review of allegations of historical child sexual abuse within Westminster, said no trace of any payment to PIE had been found in government records from the era.
How the child sexual abuse inquiry works
This strand of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in British institutions is looking at allegations linked to Westminster - and whether there has ever been a cover-up.
Mr Hulbert worked for the Voluntary Services Unit (VSU) - the body responsible for deciding which UK voluntary organisations should receive government funding - during the 1970s and 1980s.
He said that a colleague who was new to the VSU, Alan Davies, made him aware of the grant to PIE. "[Alan Davies] and I got on well and used to talk informally about things we were working on," Mr Hulbert continued.
"I believe, though I cannot be sure, that it was during one of these informal chats over coffee that I discovered the unit was funding PIE - about which I knew little except that it was an organisation campaigning for the lowering of the age of consent to four."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47695510