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Title: Paedophile gang trial: How MI5 helped bring Scotland's sickest perverts to justice (gay rights leaders busted)
Source:
Daily Record
URL Source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s ... aedophile-gang-86908-21341335/
Published: May 8, 2009
Author: Gordon McIlwraith
Post Date: 2009-05-08 18:35:47 by X-15
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POLICE called in MI5 to track down Scotland's sickest paedophile gang. As eight child sex perverts last night faced lengthy sentences, the spooks' role in their capture emerged. A secret agent used specialist electronic equipment to identify a mystery man exchanging "sinister" emails with convicted child sex beast Neil Strachan. And he was able to track the signal to the home of shamed gay rights campaigner James Rennie, who used the online alias "kplover". The eight men were yesterday found guilty of a catalogue of offences in Scotland's biggest paedophile trial. The police plan to trap them, Operation Algebra, began by chance when Strachan left a hard disk with sickening images of abuse on a computer he put in for repair. And it has led to dozens of other arrests for child sex offences across the UK. Last night, the distraught parents of the youngest child targeted, Child F - who was just three months old - spoke of how they had been "betrayed" by Rennie, a family friend for more than 15 years. And the mother of the two young brothers who were abused said no punishment would be adequate, adding: "Mr Strachan used and abused our trust in order to satisfy his and others' sick needs. "I hope and pray that my son will be able to live and lead a normal happy childhood in the forthcoming years, as every parent would wish and desire for their children." Divorced Strachan, 41, who was diagnosed as HIV-positive in June 2007, and Rennie, 38, abused three little boys - the two brothers aged six and 18 months and Child F - and conspired with other paedophiles to rape and indecently assault kids. Strachan,a former boys' club leader who had to quit in shame in 1997 after being jailed for three years for abusing a five-year-old boy, had also been convicted of a child sex offence in 1985, when he was just 17. He was the only one of the eight accused men, who included his lover Colin Slaven, 23, to deny all the charges against him. The jury at the High Court in Edinburgh have been offered counselling to help them get over their nightmare experience - believed to be the first time this has happened in a Scottish court case. Judge Lord Bannatyne also excused them from jury service for life. They took two days to convict the men of 43 out of the 44 charges. The eight men are: Strachan, Rennie and Slaven, Ross Webber, 27, Craig Boath, 24, Neil Campbell, 46, John Milligan, 40, and John Murphy, 44. Strachan, Rennie, Webber, Boath and Milligan conspired to rape and indecently assault children. The same charge against Campbell was found not proven. Strachan indecently assaulted the 18-month-old and used lewd behaviour towards the child's six-year-old brother as well as downloading and distributing child pornography. Strachan and Rennie abused three-month-old Child F - the direct target of the conspiracy - and Rennie also indecently assaulted him in a separate incident as well as downloading and distributing child porn. The court heard Rennie was high on the sex drug amyl nitrate - known as poppers - during at least one of the abuse sessions. Webber, Campbell, Milligan, Murphy and Boath downloaded and distributed vast quantities of revolting child porn. And Slaven had child porn with a view to distributing it. The court heard of the double lives of outward respectability led by the eight men, one of whom, Campbell, was a married church bellringer living in affluent Bearsden, near Glasgow. Rennie, a former secondary school teacher, was chief executive of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Youth Scotland, who counsel youngsters on their sexuality. He worked closely with Edinburgh youth politician John Loughton, who won the Celebrity Hijack edition of Big Brother, on committees and forums on youth issues. And he was also manager of the Stonewall Youth Project in which he supported gay, lesbian and bisexual schoolkids who faced bullying and abuse from classmates. He has also given evidence to the Scottish parliament's equal opportunities committee. Strachan had been a trusted secretary of Edinburgh-based Celtic East Boys' Club - who have no connection with Celtic FC - until it was discovered in 1997 that he had been molesting a little boy for two years. He was a friend of the lad's parents and started preying on him when he was only five. When he was jailed for three years, his previous conviction emerged. A statement issued by LGBT, who suspended Rennie immediately after his arrest and accepted his resignation soon after, said: "We are appalled by the abuse and exploitation of children by James Rennie and wholeheartedly welcome his conviction. "Our immediate thoughts are with the children and families who have been directly, and indirectly, abused by him and the other co-accused also convicted . "We had no suspicion whatsoever of the crimes James Rennie was committing. "He was obviously skilled at hiding his actions and adept at deceiving people. "That there is no suggestion that James Rennie directly threatened the safety of young people accessing our services is due to the culture of child protection within the organisation, which is backed up by robust policies." Detective Superintendent Allan Jones, of Lothian and Borders Police, said: "This case was one of the biggest and most challenging ever investigated by the force and represented the largest paedophile network dismantled in Scotland. "Our thoughts go out to the victims and their families who have gone through untold trauma as a result of these despicable acts. "It is every parent's nightmare that their children have been abused and they knew nothing about it. "It is even more daunting that, due to their young age, these children were not able to communicate what was happening. "Despite that, the families have been a source of unwavering support throughout this investigation and it is our sincere hope the children will flourish and they will be able to enjoy the normal family lives they rightly deserve." He continued: "Apart from Strachan, none of the accused was known to the police and all led classic double lives. Some of them were respected members of professions and communities. "As a result of this inquiry, information on around 70 other people was sent to forces throughout the UK, resulting in numerous arrests." Jones also praised the work of the forensic specialists who had to examine graphic pictures and videos. He said: "They do not have the option to look away and have to live with the memory of what they have seen. "They did it for the good of children and provided us with a first-class service. "What everyone must remember is that behind every image is a child who is being abused - it is definitely not the victimless crime some would like to portray it as."
Poster Comment: These faggots should be drawn and quartered in public. All faggots should be locked-up, NONE of them can be trusted. It's a moral outrage that faggots are allowed to adopt children ANYWHERE on the planet. This story puts the lie to the faggots claims that they're 'normal' and are deserving of rights that protect their blasphemous lives.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Contrary to the liberal BS, most fags are pedophiles and/or pederasts.
Now lets see them go after the pedophiles in high places. Until they do, they can take their PR patting themselves on the back bullshit and shove it up their collective asses. Fags need to just stay away from kids, period. Kids don't know any better. .
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#2. To: X-15 (#0)
It's a fine line between being too specific and long winded and therefore too irritating to bother to read, and being too cryptic and therefore too irritating to try to interpret.
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