A former police detective who investigated peadophilia allegations against Cyril Smith has said that if the MP had been taken to court, he would have exposed other high-profile offenders.
Mr Smith died in 2010 but Jack Tasker said the investigation into his alleged child abuse at Cambridge House care home was stalled because "other people were rather worried that if Cyril Smith went before a court, he would open his mouth".
Retired Det Sgt Jack Tasker, who served with Lancashire Police, carried out the third investigation in 1969, following two by the former Rochdale Borough force.
He told Sky News that senior officers repeatedly prevented him from properly investigating the case and that, if the former Rochdale MP ahd been prosecuted, the case could have led to the fall of the government at the time.
He said: "I think he was guilty and I think he should have faced trial.
"I think circumstances will prove I was probably right, we were probably right."
He said that he had interviewed the boys and had believed what they had told him, adding: "They were interviewed separately and all had similar stories".
"You can tell a good witness, you can tell a shaky witness - it's part of your job to do so.
"I think Cyril would have been a shaky defendant."
He said that he was stopped from investigating further after a visit to his office by people he assumed to be from Special Branch, who demanded his notes and other records from the investigation and told him to go no further with his enquiries.
He said: "We were under the impression then that they'd take the investigation over and were going to continue it. But I never heard any more about it."
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