Independent inquiry into child sexual abuse criticised ‘culture of disbelief’ at Leicestershire police
Leicestershire police was guilty of a “serious and inexcusable failure” to properly investigate allegations of child sexual abuse against the late Labour peer, Lord Greville Janner, according to a damning report.
The investigation, by the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), into the handling of allegations against Janner found that a failure by police to submit statements by two anonymised witnesses in 2002 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.
