Margaret Hodge’s Son-In-Law To Head Islington Abuse Investigation

Keeping it in the family, Cllr Joe Caluori

Keeping it in the family, Cllr Joe Caluori

Islington Council dismissed calls for Joe Caluori, who is married to Mrs Hodge’s daughter, to step aside from his post while its investigation is ongoing. The council insisted there was no conflict of interest and that the council’s director of social services would report directly to the Department for Education rather than to Mr Caluori.

But victims, lawyers and whistle-blowers are demanding an independent inquiry.

Demetrious Panton, who was repeatedly abused by Bernie Bain, the former head of an Islington children’s home in the late Seventies, said: “An independent police investigation into Islington is crucial. I know so much. Yet, throughout all the 13 inquiries into Islington, I was never once asked to give evidence.”

Mr Panton, who is a lawyer, added: “We still don’t know the full extent of Islington’s corruption. There are a lot of individuals who I know, abuse survivors, who have not yet contacted Islington or the police about what they know. There is a real lack of trust.”

The Telegraph

22 Comments

Filed under Abuse, News

22 responses to “Margaret Hodge’s Son-In-Law To Head Islington Abuse Investigation

  1. gw

    I think the “far right” is the turn you take when you get lost in between the pub and the bookies…

  2. dpack

    having had a quick look at a few “nationalist” websites and blogs the theme of hating each other as much as hating the other seems fairly universal.
    the grasp of history and real politic is often weak and evidence seems to play little part in the arguments.

    the far right seem more like a row of aunt sallys to distract the far left than a coherent political force of well meaning folk who have a vision of a happy future that they seek to create.

    how the mindset expressed in the blogs and websites might assist in exposing the truth of matters in hand escapes me but if it might provide useful data it should not be discounted as of potential value.

  3. Cj aka Elderofzyklons Blog

    Typical Pedophile PIE Zio-Bolshevik Labour, Keep It In The Family To Cover Each Others Tracks!

    • Andy Barnett

      As has been said here many times, the ‘Keep it in the Family’ attitude is not limited to Labour, not even to politicians. Any organisation with a reputation to keep will not want the truth to get out. Far easier to move the perpetrator along and make them someone else’s problem.

      • Cj aka Elderofzyklons Blog

        Always The Case, Shifting The Criminality Out Of Public View Every Opportunity!

  4. Cj aka Elderofzyklons Blog

    Reblogged this on ElderofZyklon's Blog!.

  5. Reblogged this on Thinking Out Loud and commented:
    How can Islington Council allow any member of Margaret Hodge family to be involved in any investigation into child abuse in Islington during the period when Margaret Hodge was a member of and leading the council?

    Its possible that its the usual arrogant head in cloud thinking of officialdom but frankly? It reeks…..

  6. THE HILLSBOURGH ENQUIRY WAS A STITCH IN TIME THE FIRST TIME AROUND! IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE REVEREND OF THE ANGLICAN CATEHDRAL OF LIVERPOOL HEADED AN INDEPENDENT REVEIW PANNELL,WITH NO BIAS,ONLY THEN SOME 23 YEAR’S LATER DID WE LEARN THE SHOCKING TRUTH THAT LIES BEHIND THE MURDER OF 96 INNOCENT LIVERPOOL FAN’S,AND WE MUST ALLSO HOLD IN OUR THOUGHT’S AND HEAERT’S, THE FAMILLY’S WHO ARE LEFT TO LIVE THEIRE LIVE’S WITH A VAST CASM WHERE THEIRE LOVED ONE’S USED TO BE,WE THAT’S THE COUNTRY GIVE YOU ARE BEST WISHE’S AND WE HOPE YOU WILL DRAW ON YOUR RESERVE’S AND FIND STRENGTH TO PULL YOU THROUGH WHAT CAN ONLY BE A HARROWING ORDEAL FOR YOU ALL AS YOU HAVE RELIVE THE KNIGHTMARE THAT WAS HILSBOURGH!
    STAY ,STRONG,STAY FOCUSSED,STAY TOGETHER,STAY SAFE.
    LOVE TOSH,THE LIVERTONIAN
    PPS,AN INDEPENDENT REVEIW PANNEL IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD FOR A TRUE,HONEST,TRANSPARENT ENQUIRY,THAT BRING’S TRUE JUSTICE TO COUNTRY AND OUR DEMOCRACY,
    THE SYSTEM HAS MADE A MOCKERY OUT OF A DEMOCKRACY THAT IS ENVIED THE WORLD OVER!

    JUSTICE FOR THE 96 RIP 4EVA XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX4EVAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  7. dpack

    it needed no fraud to win the election it has been a safe labour seat since 1945
    it was tom drieburg’s seat a few times .

    a bit like the other end of the see saw in finchley

    safe seats are highly prized nominations by those who would have their mps in westminster whichever party always wins

    re people exposing or slandering political opponents it happens but glass houses etc.

  8. green

    Sounds like sour grapes(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/england/8667345.stm). It would be interesting to know whether a BNP-friendly mindset has anything to do with certain political names being bandied around in connection with the child abuse issue. With zero evidence, of course.

  9. john carey

    tad bit corrupt but never mind we are British!

    If I was a victim of Islington I would take the law into my own hands, thats the only way `they` will get justice.

    • “ORDER ORDER”JHON WE WILL NEVER GET JUSTICE THROUGH VIOLENCE MY FREIND,INDEPENDENT REVEIW PANEL’S ARE THE WAY FORWARD,THE 96 FAMILLY’S HAVE HAD TO SUFFER,TO GUIDE US THE WAY FORWARD TO A TRUE HONEST DEMOCRACY,STAY SAFE TOSH.

  10. A Non

    Perfect set-up for another under-the-carpet whitewash. Difficult to believe it hasn’t been engineered for just that purpose.

  11. neil copeman

    Margaret Hodge ( oppenheimer ) got elected over the BNP by fraud, the police were furious that she had to get in by vote fraud, when she was childrens minister she kept quiet about hundreds of cases of boys in homes being sexualy abused and even rented out to other homosexuals.
    This man should not be in charge of this

  12. dpack

    however he feels about his mil there is an obvious conflict of interest .
    this situation needs the full glare of publicity

    the links between islington and other nodes need full investigation as well as the events in islington

    it is no surprise that the survivors have little trust in a system that appears to not want the truth revealed