article_snippet.sent: abused young boys at care homes and is now not fit to stand trial despite 'credible evidence' Veteran peer Lord Janner (pictured in 2002) name and face may not be immediately familiar to everyone today
article_snippet.sent: For nearly 25 years, however, a shadow has hung over Lord Janner of Braunstone in the same way a shadow did Cyril Smith and a string of other establishment figures.
article_snippet.sent: Detectives have interviewed more than 20 men who claim Detectives were abused by Janner in Detectives youth.
article_snippet.sent: It is suspected his used his hobby as a magician – Janner is a member of the Magic Circle – to get close to Detectives and gain Detectives trust when his visited childrenGreville Janner’s homes in Leicestershire between 1969 and 1988.
article_snippet.sent: But the evidence will never be tested in court after Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, ruled that it was not in the public interest to put the Labour peer on trial because of his age and ill health.
article_snippet.sent: In the month before the raid, Janner attended the Lords 15 times, claiming £2,100 in daily allowances, which has inevitably cast a critical spotlight on the decision to not prosecute Myra.
article_snippet.sent: Janner, Janner should be stressed, strongly denied the allegations against Janner – including claims of rape – when they surfaced nearly 25 years ago at the trial of Frank Beck, a care-home warden suspected of abusing scores of children in Janner care.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, Alison Saunders (pictured) said prosecutors will pursue justice for victims of child sex crimes whether victims of child sex crimes cases were '30 days or 30 years old' - but not in the Janner case .
article_snippet.sent: Greville Janner, left in 1974, served as an MP for decades and was investigated in 1991, 2002 and 2007. 
article_snippet.sent: Janner told MPs: ‘There was, of course, not a shred of truth in any of the allegations of criminal conduct against me during the trial.
article_snippet.sent: Police interviewed Janner and Mr Winston, but no charges were ever brought against Fellow Labour MP Keith Vaz.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Creedon said there was ‘credible evidence’ against Janner and that Mr Creedon and Mr Creedon colleagues wanted to make an arrest but were prevented by ‘more senior people’ from doing so.
article_snippet.sent: The allegations against Janner remained buried in newspaper archives until the authorities began re-opening historic child abuse cases in the wake of the affair.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Evidence and published by a group calling itself Concerned Leicester Parents, landed on the prominent Labour backbencherGreville Janner’s desk in 1992.
article_snippet.sent: Crown prosecution lawyers have spent nine months studying volumes of evidence gathered by Leicestershire police against Janner.
article_snippet.sent: This is the fourth time that Janner has escaped prosecution.
article_snippet.sent: Janner was interviewed by police after the trial of Frank BeckMr Winston , and was the subject of further allegations of abuse in 2002, but these were not referred to the CPS in the face of growing criticism of the conduct of Operation Elveden against tabloid journalists.
highlights_snippet.sent: Lord Janner will not face prosecution despite facing credible evidence .
  