According to Mike Tonge, Deputy Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Deputy Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, the recent Home Affairs Select Committee report into “historical child abuse cases”, made some sensationalist claims of “a new genre of miscarriages of justice” from what it perceived to be “the over enthusiastic pursuit” of abuse allegations in children’s homes, many relating to incidents said to have occurred twenty or thirty years ago.He claims that the facts on which the Committee’s claims are made, present an entirely different picture.
Merseyside Police – News Release