NORTHERN IRELAND
Channel 4
[with video]
Richard Kerr, who was abused at the notorious Kincora boys’ home in Belfast, tells Channel 4 News police tried to stop him testifying at a trial where three staff were jailed.
Mr Kerr, who was sent to Kincora in 1975 when he was 14, also said he was trafficked from Belfast to London and taken to the Dolphin Square flats in Pimlico, where children are alleged to have been abused by well-connected paedophiles in the 1980s.
In 1981, three senior staff at Kincora – Joseph Mains, Raymond Semple and William McGrath – were jailed for abusing 11 boys. Mr Kerr told Channel 4 News ” two plainclothes policemen” visited him before the trial.
Interrogated
He said: “They came to my home and they removed stuff from my drawers, and they put me in a car and they took me to the police station and they interrogated me, put me in a cell for seven hours and as they removed me from my cell, they made it clear to me that I’m not to talk about this and that I’m lying and not to tell lies, and I felt they were giving me a warning.”
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