Senior council figures used town hall offices to rape women and children, an investigation has claimed.
An unpublished report obtained by Sky News claims that an internal investigation documented sexual assaults and abuse at Lambeth council, south London, in the 1990s.
Detectives investigating child abuse allegations linked to Westminster are already examining whether Bulic Forsythe, a manager in the housing department, was murdered because he was about to expose a paedophile ring there. He died in 1993, three days after telling a colleague he intended to “spill the beans” about the abuse.
The Metropolitan police has been investigating events in Lambeth under Operation Trinity, the inquiry into alleged abuse in children’s homes.
The report, which was never made public, alleges that officers used the basement of Lambeth’s housing HQ because “sexual assault could be performed without fear of interruption by staff”.
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One senior staff member watched material with “sadistic, bestial and paedophile themes”, the report claimed, which “may have been home-produced by staff or people with whom they associated”.
The report claimed that the rape on council premises of a female staff member was “of horrendous proportions” and that she was still suffering from serious injuries a month on. She was said to have described being raped alongside children and animals by senior figures who were later dismissed.