{"id":117127,"date":"2015-06-14T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T16:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=117127"},"modified":"2015-06-17T07:10:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T07:10:51","slug":"lord-janner-accused-of-child-sex-abuse-wrote-to-michael-jackson-congratulating-him-on-being-cleared-of-molesting-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=117127","title":{"rendered":"Lord Janner wrote to Michael Jackson congratulating him on being cleared of molesting a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kate Pickles &#8212; Daily Mail Online June 14, 2015<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_117129\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Michael-Jackson-tours-Parliment-with-Janner-right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117129\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Michael-Jackson-tours-Parliment-with-Janner-right.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Jackson tours Parliment with Janner (right)\" width=\"634\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-117129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jackson tours Parliment with Janner (right)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Lord Janner wrote to Michael Jackson to congratulate him on being cleared of child sex charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The letter from Janner, who last month was deemed unfit to stand trial for 22 child sex abuse charges, was penned on House of Lords paper with his signature clearly visible at the bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It comes days after Scottish police launched a new probe into the former MP for allegedly sexually abusing a teenage boy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The letter was given to Jackson&#8217;s friend Mark Lester, who starred in the 1968 classic film Oliver! but never passed on to the pop star, according to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/6500644\/Lord-Janner-wrote-letter-to-Michael-Jackson.html\">Ben Griffiths at The Sun on Sunday<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dated July 12, 2005, shortly after Jackson was cleared by a US jury of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor, Janner wrote: &#8216;I was so very pleased at the news of your acquittal. What a terrible time you have endured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;I hope that you will return to London and that I should have the pleasure of seeing you once again &#8230; so good luck and all best wishes. Yours, Greville.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The pair first met when the peer showed the singer round Parliament in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mr Lester found the note during a clear-out at his home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and says Janner gave it to him during a charity do 10 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mark, 56, said: &#8216;What he said was inappropriate. No one should congratulate Michael on being cleared let alone a QC and peer. It&#8217;s as if he&#8217;s saying, &#8216;Well done, you got away with it&#8217;.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders maintains that the peer is too unwell to be prosecuted in England, despite evidence that he may have abused children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But 78 MPs have so far demanded Mrs Saunders change her decision with veteran Labour MP David Winnick saying Mrs Saunders should be called before the Commons home affairs committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The former MP for Leicester voted 203 times in the House of Lords even after he granted power of attorney to his children because of his dementia in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As Scotland has a separate prosecution system, authorities there could make a decision independently of the CPS review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Janner always denied claims that he was a paedophile and his family say he is innocent of the alleged sex attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3123403\/Labour-peer-Lord-Janner-accused-child-sex-abuse-wrote-Michael-Jackson-congratulating-cleared-molesting-child.html\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letter from Janner was penned on House of Lords paper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117250,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117127\/revisions\/117250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}