No change in law needed to protect child abuse whistleblowers, says Tory

‘Conservatives have rejected suggestions that the law needs to be strengthened to protect police whistleblowers who fear they will be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for exposing a coverup of a paedophile ring in the 1970s.

Damian Green, the former Home Office minister, said he believed the home secretary, Theresa May, had already given former police officers sufficient comfort by promising in the House of Commons they would not be prosecuted for revealing a coverup.

He said May had made clear that clear the Official Secrets Act did not apply if serious criminality was being revealed.’

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