(UK) ‘I was warned off’ says detective involved in historic paedophile probe

A former police chief told how his superiors tried to stop a major paedophile investigation, warning: “Don’t open the box, you will never get the lid back on.”

Retired Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Gaspar said Scotland Yard top brass feared what Operation Hedgerow would unearth when it was launched in August 1987.

He told the Sunday Express he was denied extra resources and was told to “deal with what he had” throughout the two-year inquiry.

Mr Gaspar, who now lives on the Essex coast, also suggested a paedophile unit should be set up to investigate abuse in the late 1980s, but the request was turned down .... http://www.express.co.uk