A video with photos and some words but no actually proof.
Sometimes it’s just a matter of digging a little deeper to verify (or otherwise) what’s being said:
Letters shed new light on Kray twins scandal
The previously-unseen notes appear to show that Boothby, a former MP and aide to Winston Churchill, wrongly received a £40,000 libel payout from a newspaper that had linked him with the Krays.
Allegations surrounding “the peer and the gangster” emerged in 1964 at a time when Westminster was still reeling from the Profumo Affair.
When the Sunday Mirror reported in July 1964 that Scotland Yard was investigating a homosexual relationship between an unnamed peer and a major figure in the criminal underworld, suspicion fell on Boothby and on Kray, who, together with his twin brother Reggie, was building a reputation for running protection rackets and dishing out violence to those who stood in his way.
However, Boothby chose to go public with a letter to The Times in which he denied being homosexual and stated that he had only ever met Kray three times, always to discuss business matters and always in the company of other people.
Facing the threat of a libel defeat, the Sunday Mirror issued an apology to the peer and paid out £40,000, equivalent to £500,000 today. The newspaper’s editor, Reg Payne, lost his job over the affair.
Yet a newly-uncovered letter sent by Boothby to Kray shows that the two men were friends, and were making social arrangements, more than a year before the peer won his payout.
On notepaper carrying his address in Eaton Square, Belgravia, Boothby wrote to Kray on June 6, 1963: “Thank you for your postcard. I very nearly went to Jersey myself, as I have never been there, and hear from so many people that it is quite delightful.”
“If you are free tomorrow evening between six and seven, do come round for a drink and a chat.”
The brief note is signed: “Ever sincerely, Boothby.”
The letters, which are being put up for sale by an anonymous vendor, shed new light on one of the murkiest episodes in the career of the Kray twins.
Since described as the “pervert peer” in reference to his sexual proclivities, Boothby was shouted down in the Lords in February 1965 for demanding that the Krays should be released on bail after their arrest and charge for running the protection racket.
Another letter from Boothby to Kray, dated April 1965 on House of Lords notepaper, says: “I have had a great many letters congratulating me on the stand I took in the House of Lords on your behalf; and that some of their Lordships are now a bit ashamed of the treatment they gave me.”
It adds: “I think that they will now leave you alone. And you never can say that I haven’t done my best.”
Mention of Jersey is especially concerning, given the allegations surrounding Haut De La Garenne, including involvement of Jimmy Savile and Edward Heath:
In a statement, Jersey Police said: “Sir Edward Heath does feature as part of Operation Whistle, currently investigating historical allegations of abuse in Jersey.”
The force says the allegations of abuse involve 13 “people of public prominence”.
Many of the claims centre on the Haut de la Garenne children’s home, which closed in 1986.
The home was said to have been “frequented” by Jimmy Savile, who has been accused of abusing youngsters there.
US Newsweek reporter Leah Goodman has claimed she was told of allegations against Sir Edward on Jersey in 2011.
But she says she was then thrown out of the UK for investigating them.
She told Sky News: “(Police officers investigating claims at the children’s home) had heard the rumours and I know a few of the senior members of the police believed that (Heath) was at it.
“The yachting culture had long been known for bringing boys and other children out on boats into international waters … murky legalities … it was a place where it was understood people couldn’t escape.
“I know Edward Heath was involved in the yachting culture on the island.”
pits filled with lime:
Two secret pits filled with a substance that can be used to decompose bodies have been found in the grounds of the Jersey care home where child remains were found.
The mysterious trenches – one measuring 5ft deep – were filled with lime, which destroys flesh and bones.
and allegedly being the location of some very vile acts[/url]:
VILE pictures of babies being raped were taken for a child porn ring at the Jersey kids’ home of horror, police feared last night.
Experts think the home is the source of many of the network’s 9,000 sick pictures, discovered in an infamous haul in Holland in the Nineties.It was dubbed the Zandvoort stash, after the town where it was found- but the studio was never uncovered.
Experts are now 90 per cent certain it was the baby unit at Haut de la Garenne’s Aviemore wing. Some of the victims in the black and white pictures were just 18 months old.
Now, bear in mind this was written long before either the Jersey Abuse Inquiry or the investigation into Edward Heath began:
Jimmy Savile, Edward Heath and the Kray twins
It was also written long before this telegraph piece:
The Spy Files: Lord Boothby’s sordid sex parties with Ronnie Kray revealed in MI5 files
