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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. Smith was first active in local politics as a Liberal in 1945 before switching to Labour in 1950; he served as a Labour councillor in Rochdale ...
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 · When Sir Cyril Smith died in 2010 at the age of 82, his obituaries were littered with affectionate tributes.
- Crime Correspondent
Apr 12, 2018 · The inquiry found that there were "lost opportunities" to prosecute the late MP Cyril Smith for child sexual abuse, but no cover up or conspiracy in his knighthood. It also exposed the institutional failures to protect and acknowledge the victims of abuse at Knowl View School and Cambridge House Boys' Hostel.
Sep 12, 2013 · A Dispatches investigation reveals how UK security services suppressed evidence of the Liberal MP's paedophilia for decades. The programme interviews former victims, witnesses and politicians who knew about Smith's crimes.
Nov 28, 2012 · A victim of sexual abuse by the late Liberal Democrat MP Cyril Smith tells his story in a TV interview. He says he was taken to a flat by a staff member and assaulted by Smith when he was nine at a special school in Rochdale.
Nov 27, 2012 · Late Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith sexually abused boys in care in the late 1960s, police say, as missed chances to prosecute him are revealed.
