UK PAEDOFILE SPECIAL: The Fat Kitten at the CICA on £95,000 a year who keeps sex-abuse victims waiting for their compensation

Three years after an ‘urgent review’ of the CICA, Carole Oatway is still there. Why?

…and Why has Ken Clarke made it harder for sex-abuse victims to claim compensation?

The Slog: The disgrace of an Establishment ethically unable to prosecute paedophiles among their own ranks is compounded this morning by the news that three years after Ken Clarke called “an urgent review” of the CICA compensation quango, its boss Carole Oatway is still there. The woman on whose watch the CICA overspent its budget by £50 million remains intacta – albeit not virgo: her CICA offers systemic sex-abuse victims paltry sums…or doesn’t pay them at all. But come what may, it seems, Mandarins and paedophiles who violate are themselves inviolate. The Slog investigates.

Paedophiles skip bail or rush to Asia when they first realise that the game’s up. Music teacher Derek Cable, a teacher at Stowmarket Middle School, was jailed by Ipswich Crown Court for four years in 2003. Cable, aged 63 at the time, was convicted of 10 offences of indecent assault and eight of gross indecency against five boys. He’d previously hopped it to Singapore, but one of his victims invited him back to Britain on the pretext of a school reunion, and he was arrested on arrival.
Two of Cable’s victims have so far been offered £3,000 each in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. Not quite up there with an RBS bonus for defrauding SME customers, I’d say. But the CICA is like everywhere else in Whitehall today: it’s broke.

Well, it is after they’ve paid the quango members. The CICA has been going since 1996, and somehow it seems to have slipped off George Osborne’s Bonfire of the Inanities. Boss of the CICA since 2007 Carole Oatway was, according to the 2011 data from HMG, paid £95,000 a year at the time.
As Robert Whiston’s blog pointed out in December 2010, ‘£600 million is owed to 50,000 people, and the CICA simply hasn’t got the money to pay the 50,000 people left in limbo.’ That is, I think you’ll agree, astonishing. But the Mail went further the month before: it alleged that ‘The 50,000 – who include the children of murder victims – need the money to cover medical bills and compensate them for their disabilities and lost wages….It is understood that the CICA has been overspending by around £50 million every year.’
As we have totally open government these days, you can if you wish express your views about the difference between £3,000 and £95,000 at carole.oatway@cica.gsi.gov.uk. But PLEASE do not be abusive: it only encourages them.
The newly-minted Coalition at the time (November 2010) huffed and puffed about “the shambles” they’d inherited. The ConDems ordered “an urgent review of the organisation”. But three years later, Oatway and the CICA are still there. You see, in the UK’s Mandarin Battalion, those who know where the bodies are buried tend to survive.

Ken Clarke…CICA reforms to block sex-abuse claims

Justice Secretary Ken ‘Fags for the Poor’ Clarke said back in 2010 that the compensation system ‘simply has not received adequate funding in each year’s budget to keep up with the level of claims’. In January 2012, Ken urgently got round to his ‘radical reform’ of the CICA: he proposed to save money by banning thousands of people from using it. Some of this was a good idea – flippant claims from old lags in The Scrubbs -  but most of it wasn’t: a student caught returning from Amsterdam with cannabis in her rucksack, for example, gets a community service order. Four years later, she’s a successful career girl walking down the street when she is violently assaulted. Under Clarke’s ‘reforms’, she will not be entitled to compensation.
That’s how we deal with inadequate funding in this, the wonderful world of Friedmanite economics, where your only responsibility is to the shareholders….and you have to watch your back when it comes to senior Mandarins who, er, know stuff.
Anyway, after three years of Radical Ken the Urgent Clarke,  the CPS has inadequate funding as well. Cutbacks by the Crown Prosecution Service have resulted in criminals walking free and millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money being wasted, Steve White the Police Federation deputy chairman claimed yesterday when talking to the team at Exaro.
This has actually been going on for years, but it now means that, when seeking out child-abusers, we have a fascinating Justice system in play for UK citizens seeking redress: every week practically, old enquiries into schools and care homes are reopened…in the near certain Establishment knowledge that the evidence will be “equivocal”, “tainted” or based on “rumour and innuendo”, and then the CPS will decline to prosecute. And if they prosecute and win, there’ll be no money to compensate those left behind with ruined lives.
But under Ken’s reforms, kids sent to Borstal-style institutions and then buggered stupid will not be entitled to compensation.
The Kincora Boys Home scandal was reopened last month. Over the years, I must have had 20 emails from former inmates who claimed to be abuse victims from their time in the place. By ‘the years’, I mean eight years. A case I want investigated in Bristol is still untouched, as are two more in Plymouth. Three more have gagging orders on them. But now they have the austerity excuse as well: “Sorry Squire, no money”.
It doesn’t always work like that in Plymouth. Yesterday, a jury at Truro crown court found the celebrated artist Graham Ovenden, 70, guilty of four charges of indecency with a child. Seven decades and they finally nailed him, but it’s better than nothing. However, the Plymouth ‘Justice’ system may yet snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: the judge adjourned sentence on a date to be fixed, but told counsel that the hearing would take place at Plymouth crown court. Ovenden was released on bail.
Where’ve we heard that phrase before in Plymouth? The guilty man at the easel, needless to say, went full-out for the sympathy vote: Christopher Quinlan QC, defending, told the judge that Ovenden was “resting at home having received treatment at Derriford hospital in Plymouth”. The pattern never changes.
Art featuring naked children sells very well. A famous public hero, I’m told, rapidly sold his collection recently. But I couldn’t possibly comment on that…and PLEASE DON’T thread about it using names, otherwise I’ll get a writ. I mean it, please don’t.

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