How Liberals offered hush money to hide Cyril Smith’s abuse – MP SIMON DANCZUK reveals devastating new evidence that raises deeply troubling questions for David Steel and Nick Clegg

‘Julie was once a Liberal Party activist and the snaps were taken at a meeting in her living room to stuff envelopes during a by-election campaign in 1979. But there was a sordid and shocking secret the pictures did not show — one that was only now being revealed to me.

Soon after those photographs were taken, the appalling Smith was caught groping the teenager’s genital area. He was stopped as soon as the boy cried out in horror; but what followed was every bit as bad.

For as we shall see, when Julie and her husband complained to Liberal officials, they were offered a bribe to keep quiet.

Any self-respecting party would have instantly put a stop to Smith’s predatory paedophile practices. But yet again in this still-unravelling horror story, a blind eye was turned.’

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