Scallywag

Scallywag was an interesting magazine run by Simon Regan. He was keen on pushing his luck with Libel. His work has been followed on by David Icke - see e.g. How Tories Cover Up. Recall that Gordon Anglesea, a bent copper sued Private Eye, for Libel, committed Perjury and got away with it for decades. He died in prison after being convicted of Paedophile perversion
See Paedophiles In Wales
 

McAlpine
McAlpine was fingered by Scallywag years ago. He does not seem to have sued for Libel.

 

Scallywag ex Wiki
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Scallywag magazine was published in London between 1991 and 1995. The subtitle of issues 1 - 6 was "Camden's only alternative community magazine". It sought to publish controversial journalism which other satirical and investigative publications (such as Private Eye) would not publish due to fear of litigation. It was founded and edited by Simon Regan. A previous version was published in Dorset, and the first issue of the 'Camden Scallywag' says that the Dorset version was then "on edition 37".

In 1993 it was sued under English libel law by the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major, over reporting rumours that he had had an affair with a Downing Street caterer, even though it had said the allegations were false. By also suing the magazine's distributors, he received a settlement from them, and they passed the costs onto the magazine. Scallywag's financial position never recovered.[1]

Stories from Scallywag magazine were used by the controversial writer David Icke in his book 'The Biggest secret'.

At least 30 issues were published. Nos 1 - 3 were undated, no. 4 is dated February 1992, nos 27 - 30 are dated 1995.
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Scallywag fingered Lord McAlpine and Heseltine. La Gazelle d'Or at Taroudant was described as a splendid destination for the discerning Paedophile.

 

Simon Regan ex Wiki
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Simon Regan (7 August 1942 – 8 August 2000) was a British journalist best known for founding Scallywag magazine, which deliberately took risks with libellous articles about public figures. He also worked on the News of the World and late in his career focused on criminal convictions he believed were miscarriages of justice.

Regan was born in Hampstead, London and brought up in a mansion owned by his grandmother where many of the rooms were rented out. His parents were supporters of the Communist Party of Great Britain and were visited by many East European intellectuals. Regan attended Haverstock Comprehensive School, and wrote poetry for John O'London's Magazine while in his teens.

Having moved to Weymouth, Dorset, Regan became a journalist on a local paper before moving to London as a freelance. In March 1967 the Press Council criticised him for a piece he contributed to The Sun about a woman who had become pregnant after a sterilization operation.

He landed a staff job on the News of the World in 1967 where he specialised in writing stories exposing cannabis-taking, Trotskyite student conspiracies, a world he was close to as a user of cannabis himself. Despite often attacking senior staff at the News of the World, Regan was popular with readers and wrote his pieces in line with the newspaper's view. He also worked on police corruption stories.

After leaving the News of the World, Regan wrote biographies. He started with his former proprietor Rupert Murdoch, and then followed with two royal biographies. A reviewer found the biography of Murdoch "disgracefully ill-written and ill-constructed".[2] Regan's biography of Prince Charles, "Charles, The Clown Prince", was based on letters and paintings by the young Prince which had been stolen from Buckingham Palace, and the Royal solicitors wrote to the publishers to remind them of the law of Copyright.[3] His second royal biography, "Margaret - A Love Story", claimed to reveal details of Princess Margaret's love life.[4]

Meanwhile Regan became a freelance editor and public relations adviser. He founded a journal which he called "Butterfly News", chiefly to attack personal targets including Coca-Cola, the National Farmers Union and the main figures in butterfly collecting.

In April 1981, Regan obtained transcripts of telephone calls made by Prince Charles in Australia to Lady Diana Spencer, then his fiancée. In addition to revealing their intimate conversation, Charles could be heard making disparaging remarks about Malcolm Fraser, then Prime Minister of Australia, and about some aspects of Australian culture.[5] They were bought by Die Aktuelle, a German magazine; the Prince and Lady Diana obtained an injunction preventing Regan from disclosing or publishing the contents of the transcripts,[6] but Die Aktuelle was not affected and published the transcripts on 8 May despite a German court having also injuncted them against publication.[7]

The Prince's lawyer later insisted that the tapes were forgeries, while Regan insisted they were genuine.

In 1989, Regan founded Scallywag magazine in South Dorset when the lure of journalism drew him back from his retirement in Butterfly World on Lodmoor Park, Weymouth. Initially Scallywag was a local magazine seeking to expose local issues. A recurrent theme was illegal tipping on the nearby Lodmoor refuse deport where he accused council staff of taking bribes to allow dangerous chemicals to be tipped. He also claimed widespread police corruption associated with Freemasonry in Dorset and claimed to have been beaten up by two off-duty policemen in College Lane, Weymouth. He also 'named and shamed' people he perceived as being paedophiles. However, like so many of his campaigns, no substantial legally acceptable evidence was ever produced.

Regan was inspired by the early years of Private Eye, but he felt that the Eye had become too cautious of libel actions and determined not to fall into the same trap. At one difficult time he sold Scallywag to a friend, who had no assets, which allowed Regan greater freedom to pursue stories. Scallywag started to attract a loyal readership, although the major newspaper distributors refused to handle it (a situation Regan regarded as tantamount to censorship). Nevertheless in 1991 Scallywag moved to London and became a national publication.

Scallywag became a news story in itself in 1993 when it stoked a rumour that John Major, then Prime Minister, was having an affair with Clare Latimer, who was a freelance cook who helped with state dinners at 10 Downing Street. A story in the New Statesman showed how the rumours had been covertly mentioned in mainstream papers. When Major heard of the New Statesman story he sued both them and Scallywag for libel; he also sued the distributors and printers of both papers, which contributed to nearly driving the New Statesman out of business.

Clare Latimer later claimed that "Mr. Major used her as a "decoy" to prevent what would have been the more politically damaging exposure of the affair he had with Mrs. Currie from 1984 to 1988."[8] New Statesman editor Peter Wilby said that, had Major's previous adultery been known at the time of the libel case, the outcome may have been different.

Scallywag limped on but a 1994 story about Conservative politician Julian Lewis led to another series of libel actions which the magazine lost comprehensively. Scallywag disappeared from print and moved to a site on the World Wide Web instead. Lewis followed and won damages from Scallywag's internet service provider, closing the site down.

Regan responded by accusing Lewis of lying, and decided to attempt to sabotage Lewis' campaign in New Forest East where he was Conservative candidate for the 1997 election. Unfortunately for Regan, Lewis was aware of an obscure section of electoral law and when he obtained a taped confession from Regan that his aim was to cost Lewis votes, Lewis was able to get Regan convicted of spreading false statements about an election candidate.

In his final years Regan devoted himself to propagating his belief that Diana, Princess of Wales had been killed in a conspiracy. He also set up a website called "Scandals in justice" which sought to expose wrongful convictions, and wrote occasionally for The Guardian. In 2000 he was convicted of "disseminating malicious falsehoods."[4] Regan was married and divorced twice; he had six daughters, one of whom (Charlotte) stood as an Independent in the 2001 general election in Regent's Park and Kensington North. He died after a short illness.
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There is no mention of his story about Prince Andrew.

 

JUSTICE DENIED - ex http://google-law.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/scallywag-magazine-how-torys-cover-up.html
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People persecuted for political reasons must be defended.
Monday, 29 October 2012

SCALLYWAG MAGAZINE HOW THE TORY'S COVERED UP THE PAEDOPHILE RING JIMMY SAVILE PROCURED FOR

The  letter written below is penned  by Simon Regan  Editor of Scallywag Magazine   who's [ sic ] half  Brother  Angus  James Wilson,  co-founder of Scallywag,   died  in Cyprus in 1994 whilst the magazine  was investigating  the elite paedophile ring operating in North Wales children's homes and beyond.

In his letter Simon documents Scallywag's investigation into the North Wales Child Abuse scandal   and the tragic  cover-up by the Courts and the Establishment.

Whilst the Police stole  the affidavits the  abused children had made,  naming their high profile abusers,  the notes of the interviews were kept by investigator Andrea Davison  only to be seized  by the Derby and North Wales Police in January 2010.   http://google-law.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/andrea-davison-jimmy-savile-serco-and.html

Now that this paedophile ring, which Jimmy Savile procured for, is being exposed its time that the Police returned the Affidavits and the notes of these interviews.  The names given by these abused children, some of whom died tragically, should be investigated anew but who can be trusted to do the investigation?

The daily mail recently  wrote   this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224167/Former-Minister-says-Thatcher-aide-paedophile-preyed-boys-home--Hague-known.html  which opened up the whole North Wales Child abuse scandal up again.  William Hague   and other Members of the  last Tory  Government  covered up the fact the  Peter Morrison MP  Thatcher's close friend  and aid was named by children in the North Wales children's homes as being a  child abuser linked to an elite  paedophile ring.

Simon Regan with party friends in  happier times Photo by: Idris Martin

Abuse

The Waterhouse Report


By Simon Regan


20 February 2000


The fact that the Waterhouse report went as far as it did is highly commendable, and obviously long overdue. But the trouble with any investigation which tries to break through a 'cult of silence' is the lingering doubts that it will ever get down to the whole full truth of the matter. Waterhouse is probably merely the tip of the iceberg.


The report suggests there is 'no evidence' that Freemasonry had anything to do with the scandal. Yet there were two inadequate and inconclusive police inquiries, including one into a senior officer, by a force in North Wales riddled with freemasons.


There was a consistent lack of initiative on the part of the local Clwyd CC in the face of overwhelming evidence of consistent child abuse at Bryn Estyn, ostensibly because the council insurers advised against any action. This in itself insults democracy in a way that borders on the criminal. By a policy of non-action, both the police and the council became embroiled in a blatant cover-up.


Anyone who has even vaguely become acquainted with paedophilia knows very well that they will go to the ends of the earth to keep their activities absolutely secret. They are professional experts in covering their tracks.


In the early nineties, in the now defunct Scallywag magazine, which I founded, we interviewed in some depth twelve former inmates at Bryn Estyn who had all been involved in the Wrexham paedophile ring, which the tribunal acknowledges existed. Most of these interviews were extremely harrowing and disturbing, but were gently and sensitively conducted over pub lunches where the victim could relax. We subsequently persuaded ten of them to make sworn affidavits which we proposed to use as back up to half a dozen paedophile stories we later published.


Two of these young men, who had been 14-years-old at the time, swore they had been not only introduced to the paedophile ring operating in the Crest Hotel in Wrexham but had later been escorted on three or four occasions to an address in Pimlico where they were further abused.


We took them separately to Pimlico and asked them to point out the building where this had taken place. They were both positive in their identification. It turned out to be the private flat of a well known, and since highly discredited lobbyist who later went into obscurity in some disgrace because of his involvement with Mohammed al-Fayed and the 'cash for questions' scandal. At the time we ran a story entitled 'Boys for Questions' and named several prominent members of the then Thatcher government. These allegations went to the very top of the Tory party, yet there was a curious and almost ominous lack of writs.


The lobbyist was a notorious 'queen' who specialised in gay parties with a 'political mix' in the Pimlico area - most convenient to the Commons - and which included selected flats in Dolphin Square. The two young men were able to give us very graphic descriptions of just what went on, including acts of buggery, and alleged that they were only two of many from children's homes other than North Wales.


There was, to my certain knowledge, at least one resignation from the Conservative office in Smith Square once we had published our evidence and named names.


Subsequently, over a rent dispute which is still a matter of litigation, Dr. Julian Lewis, now Conservative MP for New Forest (East) but then deputy head of research at Conservative Central Office in Smith Square, managed to purchase the contents of our offices, which included all our files. It had been alleged that we owed rent, which we disputed, but under a court order the landlords were able to change the locks and seize our assets which included all our files, including those we had made on paedophiles. It was apparently quite legal, but it was most certainly a dirty trick.


All of a sudden very private information, some of it even privileged between ourselves and our lawyer during the John Major libel action, was being published in selected, pro-Conservative sections of the media.


Subsequently, during a court case initiated by Lewis, I was able in my defence to seek discovery of documents and asked to see the seized files. The paedophile papers were missing. This is a very great shame, because Sir Ronald Waterhouse certainly should have been aware of them.


I believe that the secrecy the Establishment wraps around itself easily equals that of the paedophiles. They really do look after each other and quite professionally cover their tracks.


The real trouble about exposing paedophiles is that former victims of child abuse make lousy witnesses. By the very nature of the abuse, when they are rudely shoved out into the wide world (one of the witnesses, Stephen Messham, for example, was released on his sixteenth birthday on Christmas day after two years of abuse, and had to sleep rough on the streets for four and a half months), they are often deeply psychologically disturbed.


Some of the extreme cases commit suicide, many more were sexually disorientated in the worst possible way. Some became gay prostitutes, others drug addicts, and in nearly every case, at some stage, they needed lengthy counselling. Marriages quickly disintegrated in psychological turmoil and a lot of former victims had real difficulties raising their own children. There are very few victims of child abuse who come out of it without deep scars.


It was all very well for us to take statements from former victims in the cosy atmosphere of a pub lunch, but put them up against an agile and eminent QC whose sole task is to discredit them, and they quickly crumble, even break down in tears. Many former victims now have criminal records of some kind, owing almost exclusively to the abuse itself, and the barrister will brutally exploit this as evidence that the witness is unreliable and tainted. Faced with the choice of a clearly neurotic young man who quickly falls down in the witness box, and a smooth, experienced, erudite and often highly respected culprit, juries tend to give the accused the benefit of the doubt.


I watched it in the now famous Court 13 at the High Court during the libel action between former Supt. Gordon Anglesey and Private Eye (and others) when, despite the fact that under cross examination, Anglesey had to admit that his evidence did not correspond with his own notebooks, the 'other side' subsequently tore the five main prosecution witnesses to pieces in a monumental act of judicial harassment. Like the whole story of child abuse in North Wales and elsewhere, it broke my heart.


Simon Regan (deceased) was editor of Scallywag Magazine

6 comments:

  1. Please get your facts straight. As Angus's partner and colleague - I was with him in Cyprus. At that time we were not "investigating the elite paedophile ring operating in North Wales children's homes and beyond". The trip to Cyrus was many years later than the reports in Scallywag and totally unrelated.
    Furthermore - his death was not 'mysterious' - his death was a case of manslaughter - in which another member of staff crashed our vehicle in a violent rage. He has never been brought to justice.

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  2. Ali thank you for your comment. Perhaps you can comment on the articles in Scallywag and Spiked about the North Wales Child abuse scandal I am sure people would love to hear your first hand experience of the investigation as you say you were the partner of Angus.

    We have copies of your Magazine naming Lord McAlpine and would be fascinated to know what evidence you had against Lord McAlpine I am assuming it was very good because McAlpine did not sue your magazine at that time. You were the first to name McAlpine and I am sure readers would appreciate your help with this.

    We are seeking the truth and your input would be invaluable. Please give me your contact details so we put the facts straight as you remember them?

    Please provide the full facts about Mc Alpine and Angus and I will publish your addition.

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  3. This Ali comment, above, is new to google. No photos, no other comments, no posts totally new blogger account. Beware the cover-up squad are around. They are trying to put the lid on the child abuse and they have lots of money and lots of agents.

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  4. Ali has not replied to us so the jury is out. But I have now checked the back copies of Scallywag and Spiked Magazine. The last issue when the North wales Child Abuse Scandal was written about was issue 7 and that was in 1995. As Angus sadly died in 1994 RIP the magazine he was editor off was deeply involved in the long term exposure of the Peadophile ring and the exposure of paedophiles in North Wales when he died.

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  5. Details of the St John ambulance paedophile protection network are here:
    www.stjohnnz.com