AN MP has called for the UK government to launch an urgent inquiry into child abuse allegations in Jersey.
Austin Mitchell MP said that the inquiry was needed because of the ‘prevailing desire on the part of Jersey elites to sweep scandal and abuse under the carpet to preserve their reputations’.
In a strongly worded Commons motion, the Grimsby MP, who is a long-standing critic of the Island, urged the government to ensure that the ‘rule of law’ was applied in forthcoming court cases.
He said that UK judges and prosecutors should be drafted in to handle the cases. The Labour MP also called for the government to commission a review into the ‘shocking allegations of abuse and the decades-long failure of the Island’s authorities to prevent such abuse, expose it and punish the guilty’.
Article posted on 23rd July, 2008 - 2.56pm
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