Independent inquiry into child sexual abuse criticises ‘culture of disbelief’ at Leicestershire police in 2002
Leicestershire police were guilty of multiple serious and inexcusable failures to properly investigate allegations of child sexual abuse against the late Labour peer Greville Janner, according to a damning report.
The investigation by the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) into the handling of allegations against Lord Janner found that a failure by police to submit statements by two witnesses in 2001 to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) may have been the result of “complacency, incompetence or undue deference to a prominent public figure”. It criticises a “culture of disbelief” at Leicestershire police at the time whereby the credibility of complainants was dismissed.
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