Lord Mountbatten child sex scandal. Survivor abused in Kincora aged 11 initiates legal proceedings. He is the fourth victim exploited by Mountbatten in Ireland. By David Burke.

Legal papers have been lodged in Belfast against the Chief Constable of the PSNI and others by a former resident of Kincora Boys’ Home called Arthur Smyth. His claim relates to the sexual abuse he suffered as an 11-year old child at the home. If his claim stacks up, he will become the latest in a growing list of boys abused by Mountbatten, four of them in Ireland. So traumatised was he by the abuse, he attenpted suicide by crashing his motorcycle. He was badly injured and hospitalised.

1. The Anglo-Irish Vice Ring (A-IVR)

On 17 October 2022 Sharon O’Neill of Sunday Life newspaper in Belfast is today reporting that a victim of child sex abuse has named Lord Louis Mountbatten as one of his tormentors. His name is Arthur Smyth and he was a resident in Kincora in the 1970s.

Kincora was run by three men who were convicted of child abuse in December 1981: William McGrath, Joseph Mains and Raymond Semple.

McGrath has been identified as the man who made Arthur Smyth available to Mountbatten. Smyth was abused twice in Kincora in 1977 by Mountbatten. McGrath exploited him for months afterwards. In later life, the trauma of what he had experienced drove him to attempt suicide by driving his motor cycle into oncoming traffic. He was badly injured and taken to hospital.

McGrath and Mains were part of an Anglo-Irish paedophile ring, now known as the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring (A-IVR). Children in care were trafficked to VIPs including:

▪️Lord Louis Mountbatten, who had a holiday home in Co. Sligo in the Republic of Ireland;

▪️Peter Montgomery, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone;

▪️Sir Anthony Blunt, the Keeper of the Queen’s Pictures who was a frequent visitor to Peter Montgomery in Co. Tyrone;

▪️Lord Rosse of Birr Castle, Co. Offaly in the Republic of Ireland;

▪️Sir Samuel Knox Cunningham QC, MP, Private Secretary to Prime Minister of the UK, Harold Macmillan; and 

▪️Alfred Arnold, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Sir Basil Brooke.

 

Author: seachranaidhe1