Thread by @MarkWatts_1

1. Day 2 of Westminster hearings #CSAinquiry – my round-up in 10 tweets.

Today, the IOPC, formerly IPCC, came with a HUGE vat of whitewash, as I revealed that it would @FOIACentre on Sunday: foiacentre.com/news-CSA-inqui…

2. Tony Daly accused a peer – whom he did not want to name but called, Lord Back-Seat – as having paid to have sex with him when he was a 20-year-old rent boy.

#CSAinquiry has identified Lord Back-Seat.

I am not sure that it meant to do so.

I am not naming him at this point.

3. Christopher Mahaffey, lead senior investigator for Independent Office for Police Conduct, supplied the whitewash.

He had worked for the Met for 30 years until 2004. He rose to Det Supt.

The IOPC, like #CSAinquiry, likes this special kind of use of the word “independent”...

4. Of 37 IOPC-managed Met investigations into claims that Met probes into allegations of child sexual abuse against Westminster figures were somehow covered up, 32 have been completed and the claims – mostly from ex-police – have been dismissed.

5. Two of the 37 uncompleted IOPC-managed Met investigations into claims that Met probes into allegations of child sexual abuse against Westminster figures were improperly shelved have also dismissed the claims.

Another three require further investigation. More whitewash soon.

6. One former detective claims that when he was investigating Peter Hayman, the late diplomat offered him and a colleague a bribe of £25,000 each.

We are to hear more about this in week 3 of #CSAinquiry Westminster hearings.

7. Commander Catherine Roper, of Met’s professional standards department, told #CSAinquiry that 16 of 17 “local” investigations, in addition to those managed by IOPC, dismissed claims that Met probes into allegations of child sexual abuse against MPs were somehow covered up.

8. Lord Taverne gave evidence about remarkable conversation in around 1966 between Roy Jenkins and Met’s then commissioner about avoiding arresting MPs when investigating cottaging.

I revealed the story @FOIACentre on Sunday: foiacentre.com/news-CSA-inqui…

9. Lord Taverne said at #CSAinquiry that Roy Jenkins had told Met chief Sir Joseph Simpson that police should not be investigating cottaging at all.

Simpson told Jenkins that it was not his place to tell police what to do.

But Simpson “did in fact do what Roy asked him.”

10. Tomorrow, we are due to hear from four former police officers who make various claims of cover-ups over evidence of #VIPaedophiles in Westminster.

They may provide an antidote to today’s IOPC whitewash at #CSAinquiry.