article_snippet: Scotland Yard’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse said officers will go ‘where the evidence takes us, without fear or favour’.
article_snippet: The 14 separate referrals, which span four decades, indicate the scale of the task police face in getting to the bottom of historic child abuse cases.
article_snippet: It is understood that victims believe victims could hold highly sensitive information about victims abusers which could help further victims inquiries.
article_snippet: Separately, further inquiries are being carried out into whether detectives were told to limit a child abuse investigation centred on the former MP Lord Janner.
article_snippet: Earlier this month Home Secretary Theresa May appointed Justice Lowell Goddard to head a public inquiry into historic child sex abuse.
article_snippet: The senior New Zealand judge will investigate whether public bodies and other institutions have ‘taken seriously public bodies and other institutions have ‘ duty of care to protect children’.
article_snippet: a public inquiry into historic child sex abuse will be able to ‘compel witnesses’ in a bid to get to the bottom of many difficult and complex claims.
article_snippet: Sarah Green, deputy chairman of the IPCC, said: ‘I would like to reassure people our investigations will be thorough and robust.