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On 24.3.2011 the bulk of this article was removed from the online archive on the instructions of its author, Phil Virden, who wrote:

"Subject: KERR-HASLAM ABUSE REPORT
Date sent: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:48:47 +0000 (GMT)

I am the author of the article on that Government Report of 2005.

On behalf of someone who has suffered enough from victimisation due to publicity, & fears more, can you please remove it from your Survivor Archive, i.e., for immediate access on the internet?"

The online archive retains the first paragraphs of the article below, to show what it was about, and the Survivors History Group has archived the whole article offline.

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THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS:
THE COVER-UP & THE GOVERNMENT WHITEWASH

A REVIEW OF 'THE KERR-HASLAM INQUIRY'
HM Government, 2005, 2 Volumes, 995 pages, £97.50
By Phil Virden


PART 1:  SILENCING THE WHISTLEBLOWER

`Virtue, truth and justice are irrelevant to the prince who wishes to conserve his power. He must be willing to murder any subject who dares oppose him… yet it is often wise to represent to the people that the death is a suicide.' 
Machiavelli: 'The Prince'

This saga of psychiatric abuse, cover-up and now Government whitewash has run for forty years and still - despite Chairman Pleming's wish for 'closure' - the end is not in sight. He must fool himself if he imagines that The Report does not betray its bias and implausibility when, in the face of the mass of the evidence which it publicises, it asserts that that there was no conspiracy to protect the abusers Kerr and Haslam. The representative of a group of abused former patients has expressed her bitter disappointment with this unwarranted and bizarre conclusion, whereby 120 patients were criminally abused and dozens of complaints were made, yet only three officers of the NHS are to blame, and they only get a verbal smack on the wrist. Yet it is worse than that. So as not to publish further and conclusive evidence for a conspiracy to ignore the patients and protect the abusers, The Report also deliberately suppresses crucial evidence. It is also outrageous in its dissemblance of the harassment and victimisation of the only determined whistleblower in the whole history of the abuse and cover-up.


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