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Ex-treasurer denies sex abuse charges

THE treasurer of the Conservative Party under former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday denied allegations he had sexually abused children in the 1970s and 1980s and warned he may sue to protect his reputation.

Lord Alistair McAlpine, who served as party treasurer from 1975 to 1990, said in a statement that he had been named by ill-informed commentators on the Internet and in the media as the unidentified man accused by one pedophile victim of abusing children in social care.

"I therefore have decided that in order to mitigate, if only to some small extent, the damage to my reputation I must publicly tackle these slurs and set the record straight," he said.

The abuse claims, which follow the unmasking of late BBC star presenter Jimmy Savile as one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders, have stoked concern a powerful pedophile ring may have operated in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.

British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered a probe this week after Steven Messham, one of hundreds of victims of sexual abuse at children's homes in Wales over two decades, said on BBC that a prominent member of Cameron's Conservative Party had abused him during the 1970s.




 

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