By Amanda Ferguson, Adrian Rutherford, PA and agencies ? 08 July 2014
Amnesty International has said Kincora Boys' Home in Northern Ireland should be included in the new UK child abuse inquiry announced by Home Secretary Theresa May.
Three senior care staff from the notorious children's home in east Belfast were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys, but allegations have persisted that the paedophile ring was linked to the intelligence services. It is feared that there are many more victims and abusers during the period between 1960 and 1980.
One convicted child abuser, William McGrath, was an MI5 agent and alleged two police probes were obstructed by the British establishment.
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"Allegations have persisted that paedophilia at Kincora was linked to British intelligence services, with claims that visitors to the home included members of the military, politicians and civil servants, and that police investigations into abuse at Kincora were blocked by the Ministry of Defence and MI5."
Former Labour Party MP Ken Livingstone said: "MI5 weren't just aware of child abuse at Kincora Boys' Home ? they were monitoring it. They were getting pictures of a judge in one case, politicians, a lot of the Establishment of Northern Ireland going in and abusing these boys."...
