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Sir Cyril Richard Smith MBE MStJ DL (28 June 1928 – 3 September 2010) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale from 1972 to 1992.
Feb 25, 2020 · The Westminster establishment turned a ‘blind eye’ to child abuse allegations against former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith for decades, a long-awaited national inquiry has found.
Feb 18, 2020 · Cyril Smith, the serial paedophile to whom the establishment turned a blind eye. For more than four decades, politician raped and abused scores of boys in his Rochdale powerbase and beyond....
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Sep 12, 2013 · During his lifetime Cyril Smith was one of the UK's best-known politicians. But a new investigation shows that security services held on to a file with evidence of the Liberal MP's child abuse.
Nov 27, 2012 · Greater Manchester police have concluded that the former Liberal MP, Sir Cyril Smith, was guilty of physical and sexual abuse of young boys over a period of many years.
Cyril Smith was not taken to court when paedophilia allegations emerged in the 1960s because of concerns that other high-profile sex offenders would be exposed, a retired detective has...
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Apr 12, 2018 · There were "lost opportunities" to prosecute the late politician Sir Cyril Smith for child sexual abuse, a report has found. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) concluded there was an "unwillingness of those at the highest level" to recognise that Smith was capable of perpetrating child sexual abuse.
