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Can fans truly have a bigger role in sports clubs?
By: Matt Hardy
Can fans truly have a say in how sport clubs are run? (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)
The recommendations within the Crouch review will be, quite simply, a symphony to many sports fans up and down the country. But they are just that… recommendations. So just how can real-world examples of fans holding authority in sport push what are currently ideals into actions.
Long have sports clubs been toys for owners: left in their original wrapping at first but eventually sold, given away or discarded.
Owners may be at peace with that but it's the fans who can be left in tatters, like many clubs. Bury is a depressing reminder of that. A town north of Manchester with a once long history of Bury FC – the beating heart of the community. That vision is no more.
The time has come for a football regulator with teeth
The football club racked up huge levels of debt and became the first club since Maidstone in 1992 to drop out of the English football system in 2019.
Would fans ever have let that happen if they were involved from the start?
Financial chaos and an unscrupulous head honcho were tangling Wrexham in metaphorical hell.
In 2011, however, the club was taken over by the fans, a supporters trust, and the club soon found its financial footing before it was sold in 2020 to Hollywood stars Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds – a true fairytale.
The fans were oh so passionate about their club and simply wouldn't let it go – a lesson in care and desperation.
It would be selfish to argue that fans deserve a controlling stake in any given club for a reduced price or out of sympathy. Sport is a business after all.
But in Wrexham, AFC Wimbledon and Exeter City, we have seen how it could work.
For the others, though, whose owners are passionate, caring and deserving, they mustn't have their investments simply wiped out.
Cardiff Rugby, who play in the United Rugby Championship, announced their intention to appoint a Supporter Advisor to attend Board meetings. This role closed its application process last week and will see a supporter attend Board meetings as an observer with full speaking rights.
A compromise, right? A fan can attend to prove or disprove club transparency while allowing them to maintain it's business and profit-led approach to governance.
Furthermore, the scheme at least allows fans to believe they have a pathway to the very peak of the club.
On the continent, too, they have their own measures against radical owners making rash decisions. The 50+1 system in the German Bundesliga essentially denies clubs a place in the top flight if commercial investors have a higher stake, combined, than 49 per cent. The league also has a clause whereby exceptions can be made on the foundation of trust.
Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg qualify for those exceptions because their investors have been, well, invested in the club for over 20 years.
The system was challenged in 2009 by Hannover's then president but 32 of the 35 clubs voted against him. The other three abstained.
Fan ownership in sport has been shown to work in limited examples, and it is not something that would benefit all. But in some fan involvement, at least, sport can have the moral fact checker most would agree it needs.
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Matías Jesús Córdoba (Lanús, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7 de octubre de 1984) es un exfutbolista argentino. Juegaba como interior derecho. Tiene .

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Surgido de las históricas divisiones inferiores de Argentinos Juniors. Debutó en ese club en el 2005, en el Rosario Central 1 - Argentinos Juniors 1 (en "Arroyito"), donde marcó el gol inicial del partido en el primer tiempo, y luego se iría expulsado por una agresión a un rival en el complemento. Tuvo algunos partidos buenos, pero no pudo evitar que el conjunto de La Paternal juegue la "promoción" contra un club de la B NACIONAL: Atlético de Rafaela. En el partido de vuelta en el "Diego Armando Maradona", el bicho necesitaba ganar, y Córdoba ingresó en el segundo tiempo para intentar revertir la situación y así fue: a los 20 minutos de ese segundo tiempo marcaba un gol para el conjunto rojo, y unos minutos después convertiría el segundo en su cuenta. Terminó de cerrar el marcador Carlos Marini, para sellar un contundente 3 a 0 que dejaba a Argentinos en la "A". Varios hinchas lo recuerdan muy bien por ese excelente rendimiento en aquel partido de julio de 2005.

Estuvo en el Bicho hasta el 2007. En ese mismo año pasa a Club Atlético Tigre recién ascendido a primera con el que consigue el subcampeonato de la máxima categoría del fútbol argentino. En el 2008 pasó a Real Salt Lake City. Luego del préstamo, volvió a la institución de la Paternal. Tiempo después, se iría a préstano nuevamente a Quilmes Atlético Club, donde juega una serie de partidos buenos, el técnico del equipo renuncia y Matías rescinde su préstamo, yéndose al Monagas de Venezuela, club donde militó la temporada 2009/2010.
Recientemente firmó para el San Martín de Tucumán para disputar la temporada 2010/2011 en la Primera B Nacional de Argentina.

En julio del 2011 es contratado por el Atlante de México (sede en Cancún), a préstamo por un año y en enero de 2012, ficha en el Club de Deportes La Serena, equipo que milita en la Primera División de Chile.
Luego de su fugaz paso por el equipo Perth Glory de Australia, el jugador argentino es fichado para defender la camiseta del Club Deportivo Oriente Petrolero de (Bolivia) para toda la temporada 2013 defendiendo los colores del equipo cruceño en la edición de la Copa Nissan Sudamericana 2013 enfrentando a Guaraní de Paraguay.
En 2014 pasa a Naval de Talcahuano hasta el mes de junio y luego firma con Brown de Adrogué por un año y medio.
Para el 2015 Matías Córdoba ha fichado para el Alianza Fútbol Club (El Salvador)

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Futbolistas de la Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors
Futbolistas del Club Atlético Tigre
Futbolistas del Club Atlético San Martín (Tucumán)
Futbolistas del Quilmes Atlético Club en los años 2000
Futbolistas del Monagas Sport Club
Futbolistas del Real Salt Lake
Futbolistas del Club de Deportes La Serena en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo Oriente Petrolero
Futbolistas del Club de Deportes Naval de Talcahuano
Futbolistas del Alianza Fútbol Club (El Salvador)
Futbolistas del Penang FA

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Inspired by founder's childhood asthma, NuvoAir raises $12M to tackle respiratory illnesses
Mike Butcher	@mikebutcher / 7 months
You might well have a sleep app that tracks your sleep. I use Sleep Cycle, and have found it has started to even tell me when I cough during the night. It turns out you can run machine learning over how you might cough in the night to detect changes in the way you cough. That data could inform people with ongoing respiratory illnesses and help them manage their health.
This is part of the idea behind NuvoAir, which uses both an app to listen to your night-time coughing and other health data to do just that.
The Boston-based startup has now raised $12 million in a Series A funding led by London-based AlbionVC.
Perhaps because the COVID-19 pandemic made people more aware of respiratory complaints, NuvoAir claims it experienced 500% growth in the first quarter of 2021.
The round was also participated in by KAYA (formerly Enern), Amino Collective and existing shareholders Spiltan, Industrifonden and Novartis Pharma AG (dRx Capital).
How NuvoAir works is by combining the data from a Bluetooth-enabled spirometer that remotely monitors lung function; a sensor that attaches to asthma and COPD inhalers; and an integration with Fitbit devices. It also includes data from NuvoAir Cough, which assesses changes in nighttime coughing.
Its business model is enabling health plans, insurance companies and healthcare systems to reduce the cost of managing their most severe respiratory patients, and also managing the care they provide.
Furthermore, it's able to be used in the clinical trial business, where it licenses the technology to pharma companies or contract research organizations on a per user basis.
NuvoAir says more than 500 million people globally suffer from chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). And it costs around $300 billion a year to manage these conditions. The company claims its solution reduces urgent consultations by more than 39%.
In some way, NuvoAir is comparable to companies like Livongo (which tracks diabetes and has raised $235 million) and Omada Health (which tracks chronic illness and has raised $256.5 million). All these companies are using increasing amounts of data about our health to manage ongoing illnesses.
The funding will be used to accelerate the expansion of the NuvoAir digital care platform in the U.S. and Europe; advance the development of new products and services; and support NuvoAir's partner and customer base for decentralized clinical trials around the world.
Lorenzo Consoli, founder and chief executive officer of NuvoAir told me: "As a child, I suffered from severe asthma. I was hospitalized a few times and my parents were really scared when that happened. My grandmother died because of COPD and other family members, unfortunately, had severe respiratory conditions as well. On top of that, my young son has asthma. So I have naturally been drawn to respiratory health and have always felt the current health systems are not designed to help patients on a day-to-day basis, but only when patients end up in the hospital, which is always too late. But honestly, it was only when, by chance, in 2012 I joined the digital health team of Novartis Respiratory Franchise that I realized how much technology and healthcare were meant to be together. It was an eye-opener for me to realize that certain digital biomarkers could tell whether patients were responding to treatment or predict whether they might be hospitalized… Equipped with those insights and with my prior experience as a patient, I decided in 2016 to take on the challenge of improving respiratory health, and NuvoAir was born."
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Q: Возможно ли переполнение List в моем случае? Я реализовал метод, который читает контакты юзера и складывает их в ArrayList<Friend> list и получается ситуация, что в моей записной книге 300 контактов и так для того, чтоб заполнить массив методу приходиться создать 300 обьектов и сложить их в лист list
и я получаю вот такие сточки в логе:

07-27 16:20:39.663 18588-18698/com.fittingroom.newtimezone I/art:  Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 7741(518KB) AllocSpace objects,  2(40KB) LOS objects, 12% free, 26MB/30MB, paused 1.294ms total 55.011ms
  07-27 16:20:40.952 18588-18698/com.fittingroom.newtimezone I/art: Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 18304(700KB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 12% free, 27MB/31MB, paused 1.207ms total 45.170ms
  07-27 16:20:42.250 18588-18698/com.fittingroom.newtimezone I/art: Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 21419(816KB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 12% free, 27MB/31MB, paused 1.332ms total 52.736ms
  07-27 16:20:43.519 18588-18698/com.fittingroom.newtimezone I/art: Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 20440(782KB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 12% free, 27MB/31MB, paused 1.587ms total 53.310ms
  07-27 16:20:44.782 18588-18698/com.fittingroom.newtimezone I/art: Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 20851(799KB) AllocSpace objects, 0(0B) LOS objects, 12% free, 27MB/31MB, paused 1.539ms total 53.030ms

Я почитал и понял, что это коллектор собирает то, что уже не нужно в процессе создания этих обьектов...
Вот вопрос в том, а что если у юзера допустим будет 1000 контактов?
Не вылетит ли приложение в этим случае?
И насколько правильно загружать сразу весь список? может стоит его грузить в RecyclerView по частям?
Подскажите, как правильно?

A: Грузить в RecyclerView информацию чатями нет никакого смысла, т.к. он сам забирает у адаптера ровно столько, сколько нужно ему элементов для отображения + 2 элемента дополнительно.. т.е. количество элементов в RecyclerView он регулирует сам общаясь с адаптером и зависит оно от размеров экрана.

A: ArrayList может принять Integer.MAX_VALUE элементов. на Земле не думаю, что все 2 147 483 647 имеют телефоны. так что ответ НЕТ, не переполнится

И насколько правильно загружать сразу весь список? может стоит его грузить в >RecyclerView по частям?
  зависит от скорости. если скорость считывания с памятью позволяют, то делай

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Greville Janner faked dementia to avoid paedophile charges
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 9:51 pm Post subject: Greville Janner faked dementia to avoid paedophile charges
The rape of justice: Damning new evidence of Labour peer Lord Janner's child sex abuse covered up by police and social workers for over 20 years
Damning new evidence reveals child sex abuse was covered up by police
Lord Janner will not be charged with crimes despite CPS having evidence
Ten-page witness statement details the ordeal of one of his alleged victims
All references to politician were removed from child's social services file
He is accused of taking the boy to Labour Party offices and Parliament
By GUY ADAMS and SAM MARSDEN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 24 April 2015 | UPDATED: 23:54, 24 April 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3054583/The-rape-justice-Damni ng-new-evidence-Labour-peer-Lord-Janner-s-child-sex-abuse-covered-poli ce-social-workers-20-years.html
Police and social workers were told more than 20 years ago that the peer took a vulnerable boy to Labour Party offices and Parliament before molesting him in his marital bed.
A ten-page witness statement details the alleged victim's harrowing ordeal at the hands of Janner. But all references to the politician were removed from the child's social services file, according to legal papers obtained by the Mail.
A children's home manager told bosses she feared he was having sex with the child but her concerns were 'swept under the carpet'.
The scale of the cover-up helps explains how the former Labour MP repeatedly escaped justice.
The Director of Public Prosecutions says there was sufficient evidence to charge Janner with 22 offences of paedophilia against nine children. But Alison Saunders outraged campaigners by ruling the 86-year-old should not face court because he has dementia. The latest proof of the Establishment's strenuous efforts to protect one of its own came as it emerged that:
Janner hosted at least four private banquets as well as dinners and afternoon teas at the House of Lords after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's;
A dossier about the peer is among 114 files on child sex abuse that have gone missing from the Home Office;
Mrs Saunders has admitted that having dementia is 'not a bar' to being prosecuted.
The newly-uncovered documents from the early 1990s outlining Janner's alleged abuse will pile fresh pressure on the authorities.
In a detailed ten-page witness statement, a married father accused the politician of sexually abusing him for nearly two years when he was a teenager at a Leicestershire children's home in the 1970s. He alleged that the former Leicester MP took him to party headquarters, to his constituency surgeries and to the Houses of Parliament. Janner is accused of sexually assaulting the then 14-year-old at his London house in December 1974 while his wife and children were away.
The alleged victim claimed they had a 'full sexual relationship' for nearly two years, with the assaults taking place at the peer's home, in swimming pools and at a Leicester hotel. Janner was diagnosed with dementia in 2009 but went on to host several hundred people at the taxpayer's expense in the Lords over the next three years, official records show.
His role organising high-profile parliamentary events for Jewish groups until April 2012 raises further questions about his health. Mrs Saunders defended her decision not to bring charges against Janner, saying she was surprised at the political backlash she has faced.
The chief prosecutor stood by her ruling that the case should not go to a special fact-finding hearing where a jury would determine if the allegations against the peer were true.
'Dementia in itself isn't a bar to either a trial or to a trial of the facts, but you have to look at – and the law is very clear about this – is there a need to have a trial on the facts for the public protection?' she told the BBC. 'In many of the cases where we do use that procedure, it's because there's an ongoing risk to the public. Again the medical evidence was very clear in this case: there was no ongoing risk.'
Janner's family have issued a statement insisting he was 'entirely innocent of any wrongdoing'. A Labour Party spokesman said: 'In the light of these very serious allegations, Lord Janner has been suspended from the Labour Party.'
Police and social workers were told more than 20 years ago that Lord Janner took a vulnerable boy to the Houses of Parliament before molesting him
The stench grows: The Director of Public Prosecutions has ruled Lord Janner should not face sex crimes charges - read this devastating report and decide if she's right
By Guy Adams
The middle of the night at a large family home in one of North London's most genteel residential neighbourhoods. In one of the upstairs bedrooms, a teenage boy lies awake. It's eerily quiet, and he's a long, long way from the children's institution that has in recent years been home.
The house is dark and shadowy. Scary, even. He feels frightened, confused and very much alone.
But this boy is not alone. In the gloom, he picks out an unmistakable figure shuffling across the carpet. It's the middle-aged father-of-three who owns this house where he is staying.
'He sat on my bed and asked me if I was all right,' the boy later recalled. 'I told him that I was frightened because I was in a strange house, and at this he cuddled and kissed me . . . and said that I could sleep in his bed if I wanted to.'
The boy and the middle-aged man, whose wife and children are away for the weekend, tiptoe to the marital bedroom.
'He took off his dressing gown and I saw that he was wearing boxer-type shorts. [We] got into his double bed together. He again cuddled me and said that if I was warm I could take my pyjamas off, which I did.'
With sickening inevitability, this vulnerable and frightened child, who only recently reached his 14th birthday, is then subjected to a sexual assault. 'He touched my penis and asked me to touch his. He then simulated sex with me as I could feel his penis rubbing against my body, but after a while he got up from the bed and went out of the room. I must have fallen asleep, because when I awoke it was morning.'
This attack, carried out in December 1974, is one of several described in chilling detail in a ten-page witness statement prepared several years later by a firm of Leicester solicitors called Greene D'Sa. According to the document, which was passed to me this week, it marked the start of an abusive 'full sexual relationship' that endured almost two years.
The attack was also the culmination of a lengthy grooming process which had begun when the boy's abuser, a high-profile MP, visited a secondary school in his Leicester constituency. That MP was Greville Janner, then 46, a Labour backbencher who would achieve minor celebrity as a lawyer, author, broadcaster — and tireless campaigner for the rights of Holocaust victims.
Today, aged 86, this former President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews is properly known as Lord Janner of Braunstone, having been ennobled in 1997 by Tony Blair.
Janner is also, rather less prestigiously, the veteran Parliamentarian now mired in a murky scandal over widespread allegations that he was for decades a prolific abuser of young boys.
Earlier this month, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, announced that police have uncovered sufficient evidence to charge the peer with 22 paedophile offences, including 16 indecent assaults and six acts of buggery.
Earlier this month, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, announced that police had uncovered sufficient evidence to charge the peer with 22 paedophile offences
She added, however, that he will not face trial on a single one of the charges, against nine separate children from 1969 to 1988, 'because of the severity of his dementia, which means he is not fit to take part in any proceedings'.
Amid the rumbling controversy over her decision, the boy's written statement represents an important piece of evidence, providing eye-opening insight into Janner's alleged modus operandi.
It tells how the MP, a keen amateur magician and member of The Magic Circle, had first met the boy earlier in 1974, when he came to perform a conjuring show at the King Richard III secondary school in Braunstone.
Janner took an interest in the wiry child after discovering he was highly vulnerable: taken from his parents at birth, and in care ever since, the boy at that time lived at the nearby Station Road Children's Home.
'When I was introduced to Mr Janner, he seemed impressed by me, saying I "was bright",' the boy later recalled. 'Following his initial visit, Mr Janner [then] visited the school on a number of other occasions.'
Over the course of these encounters, the vulnerable boy and the MP would form an increasingly warm relationship. Then, one day that summer, they arranged to meet outside normal school hours.
'Mr Janner told me he was opening a fete at Braunstone Park the following weekend, and asked if I would like to come and watch,' the boy said. 'He took me in his car, which was a red Jaguar XJ6.' The boy was given sweets and taken to a playground. So began a close friendship in which 'Mr Janner rang me most weeks at the children's home', the boy says.
Scandal: Janner in 1974 with a child not connected with abuse claims
'We exchanged letters almost weekly, and I would see him at weekends . . . I was the first child at the home that Mr Janner had spoken with, but he later became acquainted with other children there.'
Soon, their relationship would, of course, take a darker turn.
That development is extensively chronicled in the document, which was written in 1992, when the victim was a married, middle-class father, living in South Yorkshire.
So, too, is a staggering — and deeply scandalous — culture of negligence, incompetence and even corruption, across several public sector organisations which were supposed to be protecting the boy.
It tells how his relationship with Janner was known to everyone, from his friends, to his social worker, children's home manager and the then-director of Leicester's social services. Yet nothing was done to stop it.
In London, the Establishment seemed similarly toothless.
For two years, the boy says he was a regular visitor to the married MP's home, and office. He was taken to the Labour Party's headquarters, to Janner's constituency surgery and, on several occasions, to the Houses of Parliament.
The boy recalls being repeatedly driven around London by Janner's driver, and taken to dine at the House of Commons.
'On other occasions . . . we went to the address of a friend of the family and swam naked together in the swimming pool,' he claims. 'Sexual activity took place between Mr Janner and myself and we touched each other's private parts whilst in the swimming pool.'
Yet political friends, colleagues, and acquaintances of the MP apparently turned a blind eye.
The boy says he regularly shared a bed with Janner at both his North London home and a Leicester hotel, where staff would think nothing of letting them share a room.
'Sexual activity took place either at his address in London when I visited, or at the Holiday Inn in Leicester,' he says. What is more, the conspiracy to cover-up his abuse continued long into adulthood.
In a second, 1993 witness statement, again passed to me this week, the same boy recalls in 1989 and 1991 meeting detectives investigating a historic paedophile ring said to have included Janner.
The relatively junior police investigators were apparently convinced that this man had, indeed, been 'buggered by Greville Janner' during childhood. 'They needed me to include that information in my statement before they could arrest Janner,' it notes.
But, soon afterwards, the two junior detectives were forced to drop their investigation into the MP, apparently at the behest of senior figures within the Leicestershire constabulary.
The boy isn't the only person to make this claim. Indeed, his 1993 statement appears to confirm a similar version of events made public last year by one of those two officers, Mick Creedon.
Should you wonder about the veracity of Mr Creedon's recollection, it is illuminating to learn that he is now Chief Constable of Derbyshire.
Mr Creedon has said that the police decision to stop investigating Janner at that time 'was taken by people more senior than me'.
The alleged victim's 1993 document also claims Mr Creedon once told him that 'all mention of Janner had been removed from my [social services] file'. Mr Creedon declined to comment on that alleged cover-up this week.
The police chief is understood to believe that much of the boy's statement is accurate. However, although there was, indeed, no mention of Janner in the boy's file, informed sources say he does not recall having said that incriminating papers were 'removed'.
Either way, the boy's two witness statements provide a chilling insight into the sort of evidence Janner might have faced in court had the CPS chosen to prosecute him.
In a statement released last week, on April 16, the Director of Public Prosecutions admitted that the former Labour grandee ought to have been brought to the dock on at least three separate occasions.
Lord Janner pictured with the Queen in 2003 at a reception to mark the 21st anniversary of the Commonwealth Jewish Council
The first was after the 1991 investigation, which Mr Creedon worked on, and to which the boy whose statements are quoted here was central.
The second came after a 2002 police inquiry into a Leicester children's home, called Operation Magnolia. The third involved Operation Dauntless, a 2006 investigation into 'allegations of serious sexual offending' by three individuals, including Janner.
Little is known about the detail of the second two operations. But we are, nonetheless, finding out more and more about the allegations at the centre of them.
In recent days, several of Janner's purported victims have come forward to share their experiences. At least 30 are now in contact with police.
Many of their stories share common themes. Vulnerable children who met Janner when he toured children's homes and schools (often to perform magic shows) say they were showered with gifts and affection, before being sexually assaulted.
Like Jimmy Savile, Janner appears to have used his record of public service and charity work as a smokescreen to hide abuse; like Cyril Smith, he used political power to remain almost untouchable.
All of which brings us back to that witness statement.
Consider the means by which Janner was allegedly able to conduct a two-year relationship with that teenage resident of the Station Road Children's Home in Leicester. The document claims he would make contact with the child by telephoning the facility's manager, Barbara Fitt, or her husband Raymond.
'They would call me into their office, where I would speak to Mr Janner over the telephone' to arrange a meeting, the boy says. Janner would then post return railway tickets to the boy so he could travel to London.
Quite why this bizarre arrangement was condoned is unclear. But eventually, the boy says he 'confided in Mrs Fitt and told her of the sexual relationship that had been taking place between Mr Janner and myself over a fairly lengthy period of time'. Rather than call the police, however, Mrs Fitt decided to deal with the allegation — one involving serious criminality — by calling the boy's social worker, Dick Beak. He also failed to call the police.
'My impression was that Mr Beak suspected Mr Janner was having an improper relationship with me,' the boy says.
Like Cyril Smith (pictured), Lord Janner used political power to remain almost untouchable
Elsewhere, the boy says 'it must have been fairly obvious to staff and residents at the children's home that I was having a special sort of relationship with Janner', not just because of his visits to the MP's house, but also 'the gifts of money and other material things that Mr Janner gave to me'. Reports of the relationship even reached the ears of Dorothy Edwards, director of Leicestershire Social Services.
Mrs Edwards 'spoke to me about my friendship with Mr Janner', the boy claims, and at one point she received a 'complaint' from a local children's home manager that the MP was abusing him.
It was clearly not acted on. And all paperwork detailing that complaint would appear to have been lost or destroyed.
Meanwhile, social worker Dick Beak died in 1998, and Dorothy Edwards is also thought to be dead. The children's home manager Mrs Fitt died in 1991, but her husband, Raymond Fitt, appeared to confirm some details of the boy's story when the Mail tracked him down this week.
'Barbara was very concerned about the nature of their relationship. She feared Janner was having sex with [the boy] but she couldn't prove anything,' he recalled.
'She reported it to the [social services] department, but no action was taken and it seemed to be swept under the carpet, presumably because of who Janner was.'
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There was, in other words, widespread knowledge of Janner's alleged crimes almost 40 years ago. But status protected him. It would, in the event, be more than 15 years before the local police even began to look at the MP.
In the late Eighties, Leicestershire detectives, including Mr Creedon, were tipped-off that a paedophile ring led by Janner and a man called Frank Beck was operating in local children's homes.
They duly launched an inquiry, carrying out (among other things) the interviews detailed in the boy's second witness statement.
Yet at some point the detectives were, as we know, told to drop inquiries into Janner.
Exactly who gave this order is unclear, and that may now be a matter for the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
The investigation did not end, however. Instead, the police went after Beck, a children's home manager. In 1991, he was put on trial at Leicester Crown Court, where he was given five life sentences, plus a further 24 years, after being found guilty of 17 counts of abuse.
The trial was shocking for two reasons.
Firstly, there was extent of the alleged crimes: police sources let it be known that they believed he had abused up to 200 minors.
Secondly, it marked yet another missed opportunity to bring Janner to justice, thanks to a sensational side-plot in which Beck claimed he was being prosecuted as part of a conspiracy to protect the MP.
Central to his claim was the boy quoted above, who appeared as a defence witness, providing what appears to be ample evidence of a sexual affair with Janner.
He gave a detailed description of the MP's London residence and showed the jury letters Janner had sent him on Commons notepaper in the mid-Seventies.
The decision not to charge Lord Janner, pictured here in 1996, has become one of the biggest scandals of recent times
Several were signed 'love Greville'. One, seemingly sent after they'd stayed together at his home, declared: 'It feels strange not to have you flipping around like a friendly flea! In fact — I miss you.'
The boy also told how he had been raped by the MP in a swimming pool at Leicester's Holiday Inn.
Such revelations drew gasps in court. They ought to have been front-page news. But for much of the trial, the boy's sensational allegations (and the evidence supporting them) remained out of the public eye. The reason was a strange decision by Edwin Jowitt, the judge, to ban the Press from pre-verdict reporting of the trial. He also intervened, early in proceedings, to prevent Janner being named by a witness.
Justice Jowitt's reporting ban was eventually overturned at the Court of Appeal, after being challenged by the Press Association and four newspapers, including the Mail.
But not before it had seriously reduced the number of column inches devoted to Janner.
So what lay behind that attempt to censor coverage of the trial? The judge, Edwin Jowitt, who is now 85, is unable to recall. When the Mail visited his home this week, he said: 'There's no point in asking me about that case, I barely remember it.'
The boy's claims, nonetheless, presented a problem for Leicester police, who found themselves required to be seen to be investigating the MP.
It was at this stage that Janner turned up, unannounced, at Leicester police station in the company of his solicitor, Sir David Napley, who was famed for representing a string of high-profile figures caught up in sex scandals, including Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe, Tory MP Harvey Proctor and Sir Peter Hayman, a diplomat and member of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange.
In a two-hour interview, the Labour MP answered 'no comment' to every substantive question put to him. Shortly afterwards the CPS, then run by an interim Director of Public Prosecutions, David Gandy, announced that he would not face charges.
Mr Gandy's decision has, of course, been vehemently criticised this month by the current DPP Alison Saunders. He was on holiday this week and, therefore, unable to respond when the Mail called.
Janner then returned to London, and at the Commons, in December 1991, made a 'personal statement' describing the allegations of abuse as 'disgraceful and totally untrue'.
It met with widespread applause and warm words from such Labour allies as Whip Derek Foster, who passed on party leader Neil Kinnock's 'tremendous support', and Keith Vaz, who described Janner as 'a brave man'. With delicious irony, Mr Vaz is now chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, the panel of MPs tasked with overseeing historic child sex investigations.
Currently seeking re-election, he has declined all recent invitations to discuss his support for Janner.
In the following months, Frank Beck's conviction led to the establishment of the Kirkwood Inquiry into abuse in Leicester children's homes. Again, however, there was a whiff of Establishment cover-up.
The Press and public were controversially banned from the inquiry, and it took evidence in secret, including from Janner, who appeared before it in June 1992.
As a result, his evidence to Kirkwood — the late judge, who presided over the 1987 Cleveland child abuse inquiry — has never been published. And when the report came out in 1993, it made no mention of Janner.
Just another deeply disturbing twist in a story which has now surely become one of the biggest scandals of recent times.
The damning ten-page witness statement in full: The 'sexual relationship' that endured almost two years
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Lord Janner inquiry: Senior police 'influenced decisions'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-47948890
Lord Janner is alleged to have abused victims between the 1950s and 1980s
Senior police officers may have influenced decisions about inquiries going ahead into child abuse allegations against a politician, a watchdog has said.
Leicestershire Police inquiries into Lord Janner are being reviewed by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
The IOPC also said documents may have been "inappropriately modified" and allegations not even recorded.
The late Lord Janner and his family have always maintained his innocence.
Leicestershire Police said it could not comment at this time.
The IOPC is examining inquiries from 1991, 2001 and 2006 and said it was considering the conduct and actions of 13 individuals, though none are serving officers.
It has sent an update to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
IICSA has received complaints from more than 30 people alleging the former Labour MP abused victims between the 1950s and 1980s.
Prof Alexis Jay is leading the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)
While emphasising its investigation was ongoing, the IOPC outlined "matters of concern" including:
In the early 1990s, before a formal investigation into Lord Janner commenced, police records indicate "a number of references to a relationship, including a sexual relationship, between Lord Janner and a child", but there is no evidence the claims were looked into
Once an investigation did begin, lines of inquiry "appear from the evidence not to have been carried out" and "there is an indication that senior officers may have influenced decisions regarding the inquiries being carried out"
In 2001-2002 "allegations made by former children's home residents appear from the evidence available not to have been investigated or recorded" and "documented results of investigative actions regarding Lord Janner appear to contain information that could be interpreted as misleading and/or inaccurate"
The update said a new referral was made to the IOPC in February, which "based on the evidence reviewed" indicated "police documents may have been inappropriately modified".
The IOPC said all those under investigation had been issued with notices regarding potential criminal offences and potential gross misconduct.
It said it hoped to produce a final report by the end of June.
IICSA said it had paused its work regarding Lord Janner to avoid any duplication.
Lord Janner, who was born in Cardiff, was an MP in Leicester for nearly 30 years.
He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2009 and died shortly after a judge had ruled he was not fit to stand trial for alleged child sex offences, in December 2015.
His son Daniel Janner QC said: "This private document should never have been published.
"It is yet another astonishing example of this discredited inquiry's mishandling of information."
He described the IICSA inquiry into his father as a "macabre proxy prosecution of a dead innocent man who cannot answer back from the grave".
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A proud Yorkshire lass, Jennifer Burman started her musical career as a chorister at Bolton Abbey in North Yorkshire and was awarded Leeds Chorister of the Year in 1997.
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