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It is certainly gathering speed and momentum, and is now being investigated by four (or maybe five) regional police forces with complainants coming forward across the country. I think this is partly because of the time frame when he was 'active' possibly from the late 1950s right through intil the late 1980s.

Toward the end of my working life I frequently spend days in Broadmoor Special Hospital, a maximum secure psychiatric hospital where many - but by no means all of the the inmates - had convictions for serial rape and murder and both. These were offences of a spectacularly violent nature and the majority of these men are socio-psycopathic individuals who will never again be safe to live in society. There were about a hundred women patients there and these he visited regularly, parked his little caravan in the grounds and had his own keys to the place with was basically access all areas. The younger women there were actually afraid of him but his power and national profile made complaint impossible. I met him a number of times and found him very cold, impossible to connect with verbally and his eyes were everywhere expet on the face of the person he was with. I didn't ever take a liking to him.

He had imense power. Apart from his UK decorations he wore a similar decoration awarded by the the then Pope and regularly spent time with Mrs Thatcher including visits to her country house (Chequers) for Christmas.

Taking his knighthood from him posthumously is not possible as it is a lifetime only award so dies with the recipient, so cannot now be touched. Claims for damages etc can though be made against his estate which is considerable. My guess is we have yet to hear the worst and my instinct is that he wasn't alone.