Top judge ‘should be suspended over links to paedophiles’

One of the country’s most senior judges was facing calls to be suspended last night after his links with a notorious paedophile pressure group were revealed.

Lord Justice Fulford, who was appointed an Appeal Court judge only last year, was founder of a campaign group that tried to defend and promote the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

The campaign carried out a demonstration outside a courtroom in favour of PIE members on trial, including its leader Tom O’Carroll, who was later jailed for possessing pictures of naked children. Fulford also took part in meetings at which O’Carroll was present.

During the campaign, Lord Justice Fulford, then a radical young barrister, said the paedophile organisation was no more than a means for ‘paedophiles to make friends and offer each other mutual support’.

The judge is the latest figure to be embarrassed over links to PIE.

Last month, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman expressed regret over the help given to PIE by the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), the organisation for which she worked as legal officer. Her MP husband Jack Dromey and former Labour Cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt were also part of the NCCL while it allowed PIE to operate as an affiliate.  TRUNews