article_snippet.sent: Lord Janner controversially escaped prosecution for a string of child abuse allegations because the Crown Prosecution Service said Alzheimer’s has left Lord Janner  unfit to face trial .
article_snippet.sent: the decision not to charge Lord Janner with child abuse in 2007 meant Lord Janner , now 86, was able to escape prosecution for eight years until the CPS controversially announced earlier this week that he is now unfit to stand trial due to Alzheimer's.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking to The Guardian, Lord Janner  said: 'It is a matter of great regret that I was never informed of the existence of this case in 2007.
article_snippet.sent: If it had been referred to Lord Janner , I would certainly have given it my close and robust personal attention.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Alison Millar, head of the abuse team at law firm Leigh Day, who represented an alleged victim of Lord Janner , said: 'The main option now for those who allege those who allege they were abused by Lord Janner were abused by Lord Janner , to ensure those who allege they were abused by Lord Janner claims are investigated and for those who allege they were abused by Lord Janner voice to be heard, is through a civil legal claim. '
article_snippet.sent: Lord Janner  is said by Lord Janner  alleged victims to have preyed on young boys at care homes near Lord Janner  Leicester West constituency.
article_snippet.sent: Thursday Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said there was evidence to charge Janner with 22 sexual offences against children carried out between 1969 and 1988, and that he should have been prosecuted in 1991, when Janner’s name was raised in a major paedophile trial, and again in 2007.
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: And analysis of records shows Janner continued speaking fluently for years after Janner diagnosis and was also alert enough to claim expenses among the highest in the Lords.
article_snippet.sent: Channel 4 News filmed Lord Jenner outside Lord Jenner house in London on July 8 2014, in what was is the most recent moving image of the Labour peer .
article_snippet.sent: Claims that Janner was not fit to stand trial have been undermined by another case where a sex offender with dementia was brought to court.
article_snippet.sent: Peter Saunders, of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said another case where a sex offender with dementia was brought to court proved what the authorities could have done over Janner.