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No. Just as others at the time didn't. He was presented in the press as a paragon of virtue. This white knight who rode into the hospital on his bike, apparently all the way from London. I knew it was just a few miles though but thought that was just what "personalities" did.

The family didn't seem to think anything was amiss either and it was their child who was seriously ill and I wasn't going to add to their difficulties. It was only later, when the stories about him started to emerge, that 2 and 2 started to make 4 and I realised how dodgy he had made me feel.

It's easy to be wise after the event. Those days were different. Our expectations were different. Hopefully we have learned from them and do things better now.

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Then I am glad to have been able to clarify what I remember happening.

I have though reported suspected paedophilia behaviour in the past but not in the UK.

Despite the rather nasty insinuations of another poster elsewhere in this thread this was in the Philippines where I saw someone regularly in the company of several under age girls who were apparently living with him. I reported this to the Police who weren't the least interested, so I went to the school and social welfare authority who were. What they did is though unknown to me.

That last contact led to me organising a service whereby schools in England kept their redundant text books, I collected them and recycled them to schools in the Philippines.

It seems schools here routinely have their books updated and this leads to piles of perfectly usable, but out of date, books which the caretakers then have to incinerate. As schools in the Philippines are very short of resources (sharing a pencil is common place) it made sense to try to put the two together.

Which has nothing to do with the subject of course but it is something that really ought to be done on a much larger scale!

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I have sometimes wondered if we ought to try to turn this into a bigger, even national, movement.

Whether it's something that we here could do, putting our political differences aside and concentrating on just all being decent human beings, or whether this is something for an established charity, is an open question.

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Yeah, you'd certainly be saying that if your knowledge of timelines was inaccurate.

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Another tragic story that most people won’t notice and will never be investigated fully or debated by the MSM

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Those 'against hate speech' Lib Dems.

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