Labour vow that the child sex abuse inquiry will be extended to cover Northern Ireland if they win in May

Labour vow that the child sex abuse inquiry will be extended to cover Northern Ireland if they win in May.

Yvette Cooper, Labour’s shadow home secretary, said that the Government’s child sex abuse inquiry will be extended to cover Northern Ireland if Labour wins the election.

She said that under a Labour government the current inquiry will be allowed to explore allegations that children were trafficked between Belfast and London.

Earlier this week a Kincora abuse victim from Northern Ireland told Channel 4 News how he was also abused at London’s Elm Guest House and Dolphin Square at the hands of “very powerful people”.

Richard Kerr’s harrowing account of what happened to him as a boy links three of the most notorious locations of historic child abuse for the first time – Dolphin Square, a luxury complex, popular with MPs and civil servants; Kincora Boy’s Home in Belfast, where boys were systematically abused and Elm Guest House, a former gay brothel where children are also said to have been molested.

Earlier this month Channel 4 News brought Mr Kerr to England from America, with his counsellor, to revisit his past. On being back in London for the first time, he tells reporter Cordelia Lynch he feels “very emotional, very painful. I’m scared.”