Lord Janner

Lord Janner   (Lawyer)
Born	Greville Ewan Janner 1928-07-11 Cardiff, Wales
Died	2015-12-19 London, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Harvard Law School
Religion	Reform Judaism
Children	3
Spouse	Myra Sheink
Interest of	Allan Green, Alison Saunders
Party	Labour, (suspended April 2015)
A Tory politician who was widely alleged to have abused children, but whose "trial of the facts" was dropped after his death.  Member of the House of Lords  In office 25 October 1997 - 19 December 2015  Member of Parliament for Leicester West In office 28 February 1974 - 1 May 1997 Preceded by Robert Carr, David Clark, Ian Gilmour, Michael Heseltine, Greville Janner, Fitzroy MacLean, Reginald Maudling, David Owen, Enoch Powell, John Stonehouse, John Wilkinson Succeeded by Damian Green, Alan Howarth, Bob Laxton, Helen Liddell, Jenny TongeDavid Amess, Alan Clark, Charles Clarke, Yvette Cooper, Ed Davey, Louise Ellman, Lorna Fitzsimons, Mike Hancock, Melanie Johnson, Christopher Leslie, Julian Lewis, Peter Luff, Nicholas Lyell, Fiona Mactaggart, Gillian Merron, Chris Pond, Nicholas Soames, Dave Watts, Shaun Woodward, Phil Woolas  Member of Parliament for Leicester North West In office 18 June 1970 - 28 February 1974 Preceded by Kenneth Baker, George Brown, Gwyneth Dunwoody, Niall MacDermot, Robert Maxwell, David Winnick Succeeded by Bruce GeorgeMichael Ancram, Tom Boardman, Robert Bradford, Robert Carr, Gwyneth Dunwoody, Ian Gilmour, Alastair Goodlad, Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Harold Lever, Reginald Maudling, John Stonehouse, Peter Temple-Morris

Greville Janner, a.k.a. Lord Janner was charged with 22 sexual offences dating back to the 1960s against nine boys and men, but because of his dementia, he was deemed unfit to be tried. Nevertheless, a decision was made to proceed with a trial of the facts. The trial would have had no power to sentence Janner, who was not required to be present. Its purpose would have been to try to establish what had gone on.

Trial abandonment

However, in January 2016, the prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told the trial judge, Mr Justice Openshaw, that the proceedings planned for the Old Bailey in April that year. His decision has been widely criticised.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
File:Henriques report 190116.pdf	report	19 November 2016	Richard Henriques	The Henriques Report into police and CPS failures in the matter of alleged abuse of children in care, over an extended period by Greville Janner

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