The son of former Labour peer Greville Janner has told
BBC Radio 5 Live that should “resign” for naming
public figures in parliament, following the conviction of the
paedophile fantasist Carl Beech.
Speaking to Emma Barnett, Daniel Janner called Mr Watson a
“hypocrite”, and said that he “whipped up the moral panic” and
“hid behind the cloak of parliamentary privilege”.
– who died in 2015 – was
one of the high-profile figures accused by Beech of child abuse.
His son, Daniel Janner, said, referring to :
“What is hypocritical about the stance he’s taken against
anti-Semitism in the is that he wrongfully whipped
up the moral panic in 2012 for his own political gain.
Remember he was just a backbencher. He announced and
whipped up Mrs May [into] this frenzy by alleging there’s a
Westminster paedophile ring, by naming Leon Brittan, hounding him
to his death, creating the beleagured IICSA inquiry. He has
a lot to answer for and actually should resign, because he is a
hypocrite.”
He continued:
“He certainly hid behind the cloak of parliamentary privilege to
attack Leon Brittan by name, and others, talking about the
Westminster paedophile ring. That’s another ground for my
saying that he should hang his head in shame and resign.”
Mr Janner told Emma Barnett that he even read “attacks” by
on his way to his father’s
funeral. He said:
“When my father died, he [Tom Watson] continued to attack
him. I actually read about the attack as we were driving to
the funeral.”
Mr Janner added that hadn’t contacted the family
since the conviction of Mr Beech. He said he’d heard “not a
thing. It’s absolutely disgraceful. And remember, he
[Lord Janner] was a fellow Labour politician.”
After the conviction, defended himself, saying he
hadn’t got anything to apologise for and said there was
“absolutely no way” that he applied pressure “improperly” on
police or politicians to investigate the case. Mr Watson
said that it was not his role to “just whether victims’ stories
were true”, and added: “I believe that my question to the
prime minister in October 2012 surfaced the issue of historic
child sexual abuse in a way that meant it could not be ignored as
it had been.”
