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Leonard William Gilchrist Smith In London he operated at Victoria Station (where he first met Robert Oliver circa 1973) and the Piccadilly "meat rack" and lived for four years at an address on Eaton Place in Belgravia, "with the son of a man who held a prestigious and historic parliamentary post, meeting him first as a client who enjoyed being tied up and whipped". Smith then moved to Southend, working as an amusement arcade assistant for an elderly homosexual called Jack Parsons, who was described as Smith's "sugar daddy" and whom Smith referred to as his grandad. The amusement arcade was a cover for dealing in drugs, prostitution of boys and the picking up of boys. At the age of twenty three he was convicted for gross indecency. In the early 1980's Smith based himself in Birmingham, and served a year in prison after being convicted for burglary, theft and criminal damage offences. Upon his release he returned to London, becoming the tenant of 70 Templemead on the Kingsmead Estate. Only 5ft 2 in height and looking very young for his age Smith lasted longer than most as a rent boy however he moved on from rent boy to pimp. In 1984 Smith married a Bolivian student at Hackney Registry Office, having been paid £500 to do so, so the student could secure her residency. By this point he was living at 36 Ashmead House, a flat which was also shared with Robert Oliver and Donald Smith who was the tenant. It was in this flat that Jason Swift was to meet his death a year later. Also in 1984 Lennie and Donald Smith met Leslie Bailey and introduced him to homosexual 'orgies'. Operation Stranger was launched on 17th January 1986 and eventually resulted in conviction of the ‘Dirty Dozen’ gang and four convictions for the killing of Jason Swift. Under Operation Stranger, Smith was arrested in February 1986 and was remanded in custody where he remained until the dirty dozen trial in June 1987 where he was convicted and given a thirty month sentence. Released from Wandsworth Prison on 23rd October 1987 detectives immediately arrested him outside the prison gates and the following day Smith was charged with the murder of Jason Swift. Immediately remanded ito custody again, Smith remained in custody until he was released at the committal stages in February 1988 when charges were dropped against him. During the 1989 trial of Cooke, Bailey, Barrell and Oliver for the murder of Jason Swift Bronwyn Bevan QC stated that Jason had become involved with Lennie Smith who then handed him to Sidney Cooke "because he feared the police were taking an unhealthy interest in him". Smith had always denied knowing Jason but police had uncovered eight witnesses who said differently. Former rent boy Derek Crabbe said he had seen Jason about a dozen times in 36 Ashmead. A neighbour also recalled seeing Jason leaving Smith's flat at 70 Templemead. In May 1989, and immediately after the Jason Swift trial had drawn to a close, Smith was tracked down to a flat at Savernake House in Stoke Newington where he was living with "a bloated, middle aged man who worked as a sub-editor on the Daily Telegraph". The day following the verdict the Daily Mirror's front page carried a photo of Smith with the headline "This Man is Evil". The Operation Orchid team kept him under close surveillance because his name cropped up more than any other, and on 2nd May 1990, he was arrested at a public toilet where he had indecently assaulted a child. He was sentenced to three years. Whilst serving the three-year sentence Smith was interviewed with regards to other offences involving a six year old boy. In May 1992, he was charged with offences in relation to this boy and when he was released remanded into custody until his trial. During the 1991 investigation into Smith in respect to his abuse of the boy he babysat, a friend of the boy’s family who had lived on the same estate was traced to Newcastle. He emerged as a useful witness but died several months later from AIDS, although not before making a statement to police on his deathbed, detailing homosexual activity on the Kingsmead estate, and also naming a gay priest, who was seen driving children to orgies there. Robert Oliver had also previously revealed that Smith had passed one boy – a 15 year old called “Michael” on to a gay priest friend of his who took the boy down to Brighton. Though closely linked to the killing of seven-year-old Mark Tildesley and Barry Lewis, and named in court during the 1992 trial of Leslie Bailey, Smith was never charged. The CPS decided that, whilst evidence existed, a prosecution against Lennie Smith (and Sidney Cooke) would fail because it relied too heavily on Bailey’s evidence and Bailey’s confession was not enough to prosecute Smith and Cooke. Leslie Bailey was the only one convicted in relation to Mark’s death. Smith had always replied “No comment” when asked about Mark. “That’s all he would say, with a very straight face,” according to former Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley, who brought the paedophile ring to justice. “He was very calm and very cunning.” On 9th December 1992 Smith was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for a string of vicious sexual assaults eight years earlier against a six year old boy who he had been baby-sitting. It was reported that on one occasion the boy was taken by Smith to an illicit gay club in the West End. The boy told the court he had witnessed two men having sex. Upon Smith's release in 1999 former police chief superintendent Roger Stoodley, who brought Smith to justice, said "wherever he goes children will die. He will always try and offend again. He does not deserve to have any freedom whatsoever". Released into a prison housing unit for former sex offenders in 1999, Smith died of AIDS in 2006. Sources include “Lambs to the Slaughter” by Ted Oliver and Ramsey Smith, “Catching Monsters” by David Bright, and press reports.
2 July 2006 BRITAIN'S most dangerous paedophile, Lenny Smith, has died of AIDS in a secret prison unit - taking to the grave the terrible secret of just how many children he abused and murdered.
Daily Mirror, 13th May 1989 (part ocr) '...THIS is Lennie Smith who led 14-year-old Jason Swift to his depraved homosexual killers. He introduced Jason to four other perverts who killed him in a horrific orgy after promising him £5 each, the Old Bailey was told. Two of the four told police Smith was with them during the attack on Jason. But Smith is still free and the Daily Mirror tracked him down. The four — Sidney Cooke, 60, Robert Oliver, 36, Leslie Bailey, 35, who was nicknamed Catweazle because of his wild looks, and Steven Barrell 27 — were found guilty at the Old Bailey yesterday of manslaughter and raping Jason. They will be sentenced on Monday. Last night they were in solitary confinement — to protect them against attacks from other prisoners. Smith was arrested and charged with Jason's murder. But he did not, face trial, even though some of the killers said in statements that he was in the flat in Hackney, East London, during the orgy in 1985. Statements by accused people cannot be used as evidence against others unless they are repeated in the witness box — so the charges had to be dropped. "When we arrested Lennie Smith he was the only one who admitted absolutely nothing." a detective said. "The other four admitted being present an were able to charge them." When the Daily Mirror confronted Smith in his dingy North London flat, we caught him with his trousers down. He refused to answerquestions about the death of Jason Swift. "Why don't you **** off and leave me alone he screamed. "Were you there when Jason died?" we asked." "I don't want to talk about it," he retorted. "What do you feel about Jason's death?" "Nothing. I'm saying nothing," he said as he fled into the night still only half-dressed and leaving his front door open. The prosecution told the trial: "It was through lennie Smith, a homosexual with a particular leaning towards young boys, that Jason was introduced to these defendants. Smith 35, a former rent boy,has been convicted five times for gross indecency. And in June 1987 he was jailed for 2 1/2 years along with pop star Adam Ant's father Leslie Goddard for taking part in a child sex racket...'[ SEE BELOW] http://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/this-man-is-evil-13-5-89/
Hackney Gazette, 12th June 1987 Men procured and corrupted boys, court told The twelve men, who included the father of pop singer Adam Ant, pleaded guilty or were convicted of a variety of serious sexual offences against two boys aged 13, one of 11 and one aged 14. Among the defendants were Leonard William Smith, 31, of Templemead House, Hackney; Sidney Charles Cooke, 59, of Oswalds Mead, Lindisfarnc Way, Hackney; Simon Haeems, 35, of Victoria Road, Stoke Newing-ton; Walter Ballantyne, 46, of Hather-sage Court, Newington Green, Isling-ton; Colin Byrne, 18, of the same address; Daniel Paine, 33, of Maiden Road, Kentish Town, and Roy Alan Morris, 26, of Crowndale Road, Camden. Also in the dock were: Alfred Goddard, 58. of Victoria, the father of Adam Ant; John Thornton, 36, of New Addington, Surrey; John Stead, 23, also of New Addington, and Edward Talbot, 47, from Luton. Ballantyne, with previous convictions for sex offences against hoys, was jailed for six years and three months. Byrne was put on probation for a year. Smith and Morris were each jailed for 30 months; Turner and Stead for five years; Haeems, Paine and Goddard for two years; Thornton for eight years; Talbot for a year, and Cooke remanded on bail for reports. http://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/men-procured-and-corrupted-boys-court-told-12-6-87/ |
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