Dozens sue British Jewish leader for sex abuse

A former Labour member of parliament and ex-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, had been investigated by police over complaints made by more than a dozen former residents of children's homes in the 1970s and 1980s.

British prosecutors however said on Thursday that Lord Greville Janner, 86 would not face charges because of aging.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that although there was enough evidence to have charged Janner, he was suffering from severe dementia and not fit to go on trial.

According to the Telegraph, Janner has been serving as vice president of the World Jewish Congress.

In 1991, during a trial of a children's home manager in Leicestershire who was jailed for abusing children in his care, Janner was named in court as having abused a teenage boy.

Last year, a senior police chief told the Daily Mail newspaper he had been ordered to drop an investigation into Janner in 1989.

Mick Creedon, now Chief Constable for Derbyshire, said he was working as a detective when had been forbidden by his then bosses from arresting Janner or searching his home.

Leicestershire Police re-launched an investigation in 2013 to review complaints that had been made against the peer between 1991 and 2007, when the CPS said both police and prosecutors had made mistakes in not prosecuting Janner.

The CPS said the new inquiry had produced evidence that would have justified charging Janner with 16 indecent assaults and six other counts.