Dec 6 1979 – May 1982 Peter Mandelson serves as a Councillor on Labour-run Lambeth Borough Council in London. Children in Lambeth’s ‘care’ are sexually abused in Lambeth care homes on an industrial scale during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s and beyond. Until 1982 the assistant director of social services is Valerie ‘Val’ Howarth who will later – in 1986 – be picked by Esther Rantzen to become founding chief executive of Childline from July 1987, notwithstanding an abysmal track record of failing to protect vulnerable children in care. Another of Peter Mandelson’s local Lambeth contemporaries, Paul Boateng (whose wife Janet Boateng becomes a Lambeth councillor in 1982), will visit the predatory manager (Michael John Carroll) of Lambeth’s Angell Road children’s home “on up to six occasions during the mid-1980s”. And were that not by itself shocking enough: “An unnamed youth worker claims he saw Mr Paul Boateng at a holiday camp for young people in care, run by Michael John Carroll. He claimed Michael John Carroll boasted of his friendship with Mr Paul Boateng” (Daily Mirror, March 2 2016). Separately, MP Cyril Smith will be recorded by hidden police camera committing paedophile offences at a flat in Lambeth Council owned Coronation Buildings (BBC Newsnight March 2015). Cyril Smith, Paul Boateng, Peter Mandelson, Virginia Bottomley and Edward Heath will become the subject of allegations published by Dr Joan Coleman in circa 2011, that, around 2005 and/or earlier, they were involved in a cult which practiced ritual sexual abuse and murder. Given Peter Mandelson’s involvement in Lambeth governance during a period of industrial scale child abuse, was he interviewed? Almost unbelievably in light of the catastrophic events in Lambeth, the individuals cited above will later be honoured as Lord Peter Mandelson, Baroness Howarth, Dame Esther Rantzen, Lord and Lady Boateng, and Sir Cyril Smith.
July 1 1980 Peter Mandelson and serial child rapist Edward Heath appear together in public. In his capacity as chairman of the British Youth Council, Peter Mandelson joins Heath, David Alton and Nick Lyell at the House of Commons for a Press Association photo in support of the Youth and Community Bill. Peter Mandelson and Heath will remain in touch for the next two decades (and presumably until Heath’s death).
1980s Peter Mandelson meets and befriends Ghislaine Maxwell at an unspecified point in the 1980s, according to an “acquaintance” of Peter Mandelson quoted in the Daily Mail on Aug 30 2019. The anonymous source alleges that it was Ghislaine Maxwell who, on an unspecified later date, introduced Peter Mandelson to Jeffrey Epstein. However, no corroborating evidence is provided that this is indeed how Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein later became friends, vacation shopping partners and business allies.
1993/5-1998 Peter Mandelson has by late 1998 received “at least five” free flights from his close friend Linda Wachner aboard her company’s private jet. Linda Wachner claims in December 1998 that she met Peter Mandelson “two or three years ago”, while newspaper reports trace their initial introduction to a small dinner party in London hosted by Lady Carla Powell in either 1993 or 1995 (sources differ). Another report claims that Mandelson and Linda Wachner met when the politician was staying on Long Island with PR executive Peter Brown. Like Peter Mandelson’s other close friend Jeffrey Epstein of whom Linda Wachner is reportedly a client (NYMag.com), Linda Wachner’s main home is in New York’s Upper East Side. She has additional homes in Southampton in the Hamptons district of Long Island, and Aspen (site of the Aspen Institute where Peter Mandelson has spoken). Peter Mandelson has reportedly stayed with Linda Wachner at her home in Aspen, yet whether he has also stayed at her Upper East Side home near their mutual friend Jeffrey Epstein is unknown. Southampton is 25 minutes from the Hamptons home of Childline co-founder Shaun Woodward and his wife Camilla Sainsbury, whose names – like Linda Wachner’s – are listed in the ‘little black book’ of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. As well as Mandelson and Linda Wachner, others who’ve summered in the Hamptons include Ghislaine Maxwell-linked Toby Young, Hugh Grant and Mariella Frostrup.
1993-1994 Peter Mandelson’s former Lambeth colleague, Valerie Howarth, is serving on the NSPCC Professional Advice Panel. Peter Mandelson will become deeply involved with the NSPCC a few years later. It is not clear if – or to what extent – Val Howarth will still be involved with the NSPCC by the time Peter Mandelson joins the NSPCC ‘Full Stop’ campaign against child abuse in 1999
Oct 1996 Peter Mandelson receives a “zero-interest home loan” from close friend Geoffrey Robertson – Ghislaine Maxwell’s father’s business partner until the tycoon died in 1991. “Geoffrey Robinson’s business relationship with Robert Maxwell began in 1987,” according to journalist David Hencke, who says Geoffrey Robertson had two companies and Robert Maxwell owned three companies with interests in engineering. Robert Maxwell appointed Geoffrey Robertson as director to his three companies, says David Hencke. Fast forward to spring 1991, seven months before Robert Maxwell’s mysterious death: “Geoffrey Robinson took over the assets of Robert Maxwell’s engineering empire. The deal was incredibly complicated – involving an initial buy-out of Maxwell-owned Hollis plc by Mr Geoffrey Robertson. A Maxwell company then took over a Geoffrey Robertson company with Mr Geoffrey Robertson remaining the largest shareholder. Both Robert Maxwell and Geoffrey Robinson had set up their own offshore trusts by then – allowing money to be transferred out of the UK.”
1997 Peter Mandelson lobbies prime minister Tony Blair to give serial paedophile Greville Janner a peerage ahead of the May 1997 general election, as the Daily Mail will report on May 17 2015. “It meant Greville Janner was one of the first peers appointed by Mr Tony Blair after his landslide election victory”. Prosecutors announced in 2015 that there was enough evidence to charge Greville Janner with TWENTY-TWO historic child sex offences. Greville Janner was first investigated by police in 1991 after he was named as an alleged paedophile during the trial of children’s home manager Frank Beck. It seems most unlikely that Peter Mandelson was not aware of this prior police probe.
Oct 14 1999 Peter Mandelson and serial child rapist Edward Heath appear together in public, some two decades after their first known public appearance together. The unlikely friends from opposing political parties are seated together in the audience for a Britain in Europe Campaign event. The venue is an Imax in London’s Waterloo district. Heath is evidently a supporter of BiE and Peter Mandelson sits on BiE’s Council, as does serial paedophile Lord Leon Brittan.
Jan 2001 Peter Mandelson joins his close friend Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic, becoming an Associate Director in or before this date (Daily Telegraph Jan 5 2001), and next year their mutual close friend Lynn de Rothschild will join them. Indeed, Lynn de Rothschild in February 2002 becomes a non-executive director of the Old Vic Theatre Trust 2000, sitting alongside Spacey and Sally Greene. “When Spacey accompanied [Bill Clinton] to the Labour Party conference [in Oct 2002] it was Peter Mandelson who took much of the reflected glory”, the Evening Standard will subsequently report (Apr 22 2004). Years later the world will be told that Kevin Spacey was using his tenure at the Old Vic to serially sexually assault young actors – reportedly at least TWENTY – with the majority of personal allegations (all but two) falling before 2009. Given their significant involvement with Spacey and the Old Vic during the period of widespread sexual abuse concerned, have Peter Mandelson and Lynn de Rothschild been interviewed?
Nov 2001 Peter Mandelson and his friend Lynn de Rothschild serve together as non-executive directors of Policy Network and Communications. Peter Mandelson chairs the think-tank; Lynn and her new husband, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, will bankroll it. Mandelson will serve on the board Nov 2001-Oct 2004 and Lynn de Rothschild will serve Nov 2001-Oct 2002. Among those significantly involved with Policy Network are Bill Clinton and Alan Milburn. Citing the need to “spend more time with my family”, Alan Milburn will abruptly resign as a government minister in June 2003, a few months after a list of suspected paedophiles assembled by Operation Ore detectives is leaked to the press. It has neither been established nor disproven that Alan Milburn’s name was on that leaked list. Mandelson-the-politician’s name was linked to Operation Ore due to police error, press reports will announce.
2003 Peter Mandelson is a person of interest to Operation Ore detectives in connection with the alleged accessing of online paedophile material by someone using the name Peter Mandelson. It will later be reported that police have confused the politician with a Welsh student of the same name.
2006 Peter Mandelson is the subject of allegations dating to the years prior to and including 2006. The allegations will be documented by Dr Joan Coleman (and published in circa 2011). Dr Coleman was a UK psychiatrist who specialized in the treatment of victims of childhood abuse. Dr Coleman avers that the allegations against Peter Mandelson and others were relayed to her by a victim whom she identifies only as HG: “Peter Mandelson [is] involved in cult in France and Brussels. Likes boys. Pays cult cash for rent boys but seems to be part of it. He ordered severe torture prior to murder of boy Kevin, aged 17, a runaway from Newcastle. who had some hold over him and was blackmailing him. Kevin was tortured and killed. Body dumped in sea, south coast, after being cut up.” The south coast reference is interesting in light of a separate allegation which will be made against Peter Mandelson in the future. Dr Coleman evidently takes the allegation seriously.
Jan 2009 Peter Mandelson calls his friend Jeffrey Epstein in the Palm Beach County Stockade (jail) that Epstein has inhabited after pleading guilty to procuring a minor for sexual abuse. This extraordinary phone conversation will be reported by UK broadcaster Channel 4 on the ‘Dispatches’ program, aired in October 2019, based on the account of Epstein’s friend, who requests anonymity. During the call, Peter Mandelson reportedly seeks Epstein’s assistance to set up a meeting with Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan bank. Peter Mandelson and Epstein were so close that the sex offender refers to his friend by a nickname (“Petie”) during the conversation, the whistle-blower alleges. “I must say I was astonished that a British cabinet minister at that time, probably the most powerful man other than the Prime Minister, was calling Jeffrey in jail to make an appointment, to seek an appointment with a very powerful banker in New York,” the whistle-blower tells ‘Dispatches’. But this wasn’t the only time that Peter Mandelson and Epstein engaged in business talk. Victim Virginia Giuffre recalls Peter Mandelson visiting Epstein’s townhouse in New York. “I remember him [Peter Mandelson] being at the house in New York and I was introduced to him at a dinner party. He and Jeffrey talked business together.” Thus we have two entirely unrelated individuals, with no common interest, both separately alleging that Peter Mandelson and Epstein discussed business matters together on different occasions. What precisely were the shared business interests involving career sex trafficker, abuser of minors and sexual blackmailer-of-politicians Jeffrey Epstein, and his close friend Peter ‘Petie’ Mandelson?
2011 On an unspecified date in this year, Peter Mandelson is invited by his friend Ghislaine Maxwell to a meeting, according to an anonymous source (billed as a ‘friend’ of Maxwell) quoted in the Daily Mail on Aug 30 2019. “[But when Peter Mandelson] turned up, Epstein was there. It was a complete accident…” No corroborating evidence is provided for this version of events.
2012 Peter Mandelson becomes one of the ‘founding citizens’ of TerraMar, a fake charity set up by his friend Ghislaine Maxwell with financial support from Jeffrey Epstein. Law enforcement suspect TerraMar was a fake charity slush fund for victims of Maxwell-and-Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Other ‘founding citizens’ include Sir Evelyn de Rothschild’s son/Lynn de Rothschild’s stepson, David de Rothschild; Edith ‘Edie’ Lutnick; the business partner of Peter Mandelson’s close friend Matthew Freud – Dr Arlo Brady; Mandelson’s fellow NSPCC ‘Full Stop’ campaign vice-chairman Nick Mason; and NSPCC ‘Full Stop’ campaign supporters Jemma Kidd, Johan Eliasch and Richard Branson (a ‘supporting citizen’). A veritable NSPCC ‘Full Stop’ campaign reunion!
May 23 2013 Peter Mandelson and Virginia Bottomley are photographed, together, smiling warmly in The Guardian, to accompany the curious announcement that “Peter Mandelson has been appointed the high steward of Kingston Upon Hull … The post has been resurrected along with another ceremonial role in the east coast port, the sheriff of Hull, which will be filled by the former Tory minister Virginia Bottomley … The Queen agreed to resurrect the posts, which lapsed with the creation of the now defunct Humberside county council in the 1970s.” Separately in 2013, the media reveals the existence of a list of alleged visitors to the Elm Guest House, a former de facto child brothel to which NSPCC trustee Esther Rantzen’s former lover, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, has also been linked. The name of Virginia Bottomley’s husband (Peter Bottomley) is on the list. Mr Peter Bottomley will deny being a paedophile and vow to litigate against anyone who says otherwise (report of July 7 2014 in the Daily Mail). Virginia Bottomley sat on the NSPCC’s ‘Stop Organised Abuse’ board, established in 2003. Did Peter Mandelson and Virginia Bottomley come together on that board, the NSPCC’s ‘Full Stop’ campaign, or on any other projects involving child protection? Virginia Bottomley’s devotion to child protection can be traced back decades. For example, on May 9 1990, she accompanied Esther Rantzen on a visit to the Childline premises in London NW1.
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