{"id":59810,"date":"2012-11-09T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=59810"},"modified":"2012-11-11T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T10:28:37","slug":"abuse-victim-says-he-was-not-abused-by-lord-mcalpine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=59810","title":{"rendered":"Abuse Victim Says He Was Not Abused by Lord McAlpine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">News Brief \u2013 Nov 9, 2012<\/h1>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Lord-McAlpine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-59790\" title=\"Lord McAlpine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Lord-McAlpine-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Lord-McAlpine-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Lord-McAlpine.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Former resident of a North Wales care home who claims a senior Tory abused him has issued a statement denying that Lord McAlpine was one of his abusers.<\/h5>\n<h5>The statement follows a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=59791\"> <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">public denial by Lord McAlpine <\/span><\/a>earlier Friday in which he called allegations that he had abused children as \u201cwholly false and seriously defamatory\u201d.<\/h5>\n<h5>Hours later the former resident of the care home and alleged victim of abuse, Steve Messham issued a statement in which he offered his \u201csincere and humble apologies to Lord McAlpine.<\/h5>\n<h5>It was, claimed Messham, a case of mistaken identity:<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&#8220;After seeing a picture in the past hour of the individual concerned, this [is] not the person I identified by photograph presented to me by the police in the early 1990s, who told me the man in the photograph was Lord McAlpine.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Although Messham now says that Lord McAlpine was not one of his abusers, he still maintains that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=59434\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u201csenior Tory\u201d actively abused boys<\/span><\/a> at the care home during the Thatcher era.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former care home resident who alleges that boys at a North Wales care home were abused by a senior Tory Party member says Lord McAlpine was not involved <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":59790,"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":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jimmy-savile-scandal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59810","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=59810"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59888,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59810\/revisions\/59888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}