Witch Hunt Mania Recommences in Scotland Despite NEW SATANIC ABUSE TRIAL FAILURE

Satanic Abuse refuses to die because the Media love the click-bait sensationalism and the sectarian lynch-mob expects it.

The sensational headlines on the banner above look like they came from the 1990 Satanic Panic, but despite 35 years of failed court cases and not a single conviction forSatanic Ritual Abusein all that time, despite knowing the dangers to innocents who have been falsely accused, the British Mediastillcannot show restraint and rush to sensationalise thread-bare claims as though fact.Satanic Abuse refuses to die because the Media love the click-bait sensationalism and the sectarian lynch-mob expects it.

Within hours of the announcement of this new Satanic Abuse trial on 3 August 2022, the internet was rife with rumour and speculation. The 'trigger-words' used in the press headlines set in motion an instantaneous wave of hatred from all those believers in SRA who were certain that the Glasgow trial would, at long last, prove the existence of Satanic Ritual Abuse ; A typical selection of the thousands of irate tweets is alongside. [Double click on any image on this web page for a larger version to read more easily.]

The trial was slated to begin in September 2023 but at a pre-trial hearing in January of that year the defense lawyers complained to the judge about aTikTokvideorecorded by SRA conspiracyloons on location outside Glasgow High Court which also featured photographs of the accused and revealed other information which breached sub-judicae laws.

The defence asked the judge to order the police to remove it and any other infringements.It was the very same jump-to-condemn which hallmarks all previous Satanic Panics. The SRA lynch-mob was on the bandwagon again.

As soon as the trial indictments 'confirmed' the links to Satanism and Witchcraft, the Satan Hunter lobby in Scotland had swung into action with a mob gathering around the homes of two of the accused who were taken away by the police'for their own safety'. The court, the Office of the Procurator Fiscal and the police MUST have realised the panic and hysteria that would have been caused by the use of the terms Witchcraft and Satanism in this trial yet they brazenly publicised those allegations all the same.

Similar videos on the case are still up on Tik-Tok today. For example, the group #exposescotland , a set of SRA vigilantes, is just one of the many SRA-hunter outfits which jumped on theGlasgow trialto spread the false notion that hereat lastwas vindication that the Satanic Ritual Abuse of children did exist. In the video a self-appointed Scottish Satan-hunter with a Glaswegian accent tells her followers it's a done deal: [Source]No need for a Trial, or a Jury. Let's Just hang the Witch!

The Scottish Legal Establishment and Press breached the religious rights of Pagans without a thought.

The condemnation of today's Pagans was so great thatthe Timesactually reported hate crimes against Scottish Witches;

'Scotland's Pagans are facing threats and discrimination after their religion was linked with a court case alleging that a Satanic child sex ring was operating in Glasgow, the Scottish Pagan Federation said today. Source: Times 5 November 2022 ]

The Trial Begins:

Amidst this roiling hatred reminiscent of fifteenth century Scottish Witch-trials, the prosecution of the 11 accused began on 6 September 2023 with warnings from the judge that it could take six to eight weeks to complete. The Media and the Satan Hunters readied themselves for a Satan-Fest of enormous proportions...but then on the 13th of October the Witchcraft and Satanic Components of the trial began to collapse:

*All eight charges relating to witchcraft and Satanismwere thrown out of court.

*The indictment claimed adults made the children participate in Witchcraft classes and seances but it was UNTRUE!

*The Crown lawyers said the defendants were Witches and used Ouija Boards and Wands -Untrue!The people accused were not Witches or Satanists.

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...The Prosecution Has Withdrawn ALL Witchcraft Related Charges - There was NO Satanic Abuse In This Case .......

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The Satan-hunter rabble-rousers who had, once again, pinned their hopes on getting 'proof' of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse, were stunned. For the umpteenth time a case sensationalised by the Media had been pounced upon by the lynch-mob and this one had seemed so cut-and-dried, so incontrovertible. It had so many expected motifs. The indictments appeared SO believable; but they were false, as in every other case in the past.

The SRA lynch-mob had made up their minds long before they knew the facts. Yet as the SAFF has been telling folk for the past three decades tales of SRA are a MYTH, a witch-hunt, and those who jump to condemn will look as foolish as those people do now on Twitter and TikTok and other social media platforms who got sucked-in by the seemingly 'obviously true' shock headlines.

There was no real forensic evidence
of any form of Satanic Ritual Abuse

As the trial progressed it became clear that the very slight injuries shown to the court in photographs of the childrens' bodies, were typical of those in accidents and non-abusive incidents. They could not in any way be said to have been evidence of 'Ritual Abuse' and they did not constitute any sort of evidence of a link with Witchcraft or Satanism.

The Prosecution's case relating to the Witchcraft and Satanic claims was tissue-thin and unprovable, as we shall show below. After the Defence objected, the judge halted the trial and conferred with the Prosecution which agreed to withdraw ALL eight of the charges related to Witchcraft and Satanism. This was NOT a case of SRA. There was NO Satanism or Witchcraft involved in any of it.

The Media and the on-line pundits were WRONG. This was not a real case of SRA after all - there was no Satanism or Witchcraft involved in any of it.

The case continued as a 'conventional' trial of 'regular' child sex abuse but SAFF believe that the inclusion of false claims of ritual abuse has damaged the prosecution's case to a point at which the veracity of the children's testimony on 'regular' abuse is now also in question, making an appeal against the convictions a racing certainty.

Yet even as the jury delivered their verdict of guilty on 8 of the accused the witless British Press could not resist re-inserting made-up claims of Witchcraft and Satanism into their reports regardless of the fact that the Judge and the Prosecution itself had said they were untrue - Just like they did in the 1990 Satanic Panic. Almost every news report contained the phrase

An allegation that the accused used a Ouija board to “call on spirits and demons” causing the child victims to “believe that they could see, hear and communicate with spirits and demons” and making them take part in “witchcraft”, was dropped by prosecutors during the trial.

If the court had found this untrue, which it had, then why include it?

If the court had dropped claims of using a Ouija Board, which it had, then why mention it?

If the court had rejected claims that the paedophiles had 'called on spirits and demons' in 'witchcraft' ceremonies, which it had, then why recall it?

It is like some mediaeval compulsion the British Press cannot resist - to restate untruths in order to abominate people who have committed crimes beyond the pale. Saying these people are evil isn't enough. Relating their terrible crimes is insufficient - we must say they are DEMONS too and rile the baying mob to a crescendo.

Ironically the worst offender in the Tabloid excesses was the Daily Mail. Back in the 1990s The Daily Mail & Sunday Mail were proper newspapers which had lead the press to challenge the claims of Satanic Abuse in the Rochdale and Orkney cases and helped this country to break free from the grip of a mediaeval hysteria. They spent tens of thousands on legal actions taking Rochdale and Orkney councils to the high court to force them to reveal case documents which showed just how badly and on what flimsy pretexts the Scottish Social Services had kidnapped kids from their innocent parents and how the social workers had tried to cover-up their mania about Satanic Abuse.

This long tradition of all that is best in British Journalism has now apparently sunk to an all time low as a new generation of hacks who are completely ignorant of the good work their newspaper did before, quickly jumped on the SRA bandwagon in 2023. The completely inaccurate headline alongside says it all. The defendants did not 'pose as witches and wizards' All references to witches and wizards were false and removed from the court on the 13th October.

Even worse, having attempted to make this a case of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse when it was no such thing, Natasha Anderson and Eirian Jane Prosser then go on to use these choice untruths:

Throughout the trial the group was described as a satanic coven - a mixture of 'Witches and Wizards' They were accused of getting the children involved in ' practices' casting 'spells' and turning them into animals.

This is utterly untrue. These terms were used in the original court indictments and were dropped by the Prosecution a week into the trial on the 13th October. Clearly these two hacks were transfixed by the same early shock-horror headlines that marked the start of this trial and just ASSUMED that the 'Devil Worship' was real.

Not only is that statement untrue but it is also moronic. Let's educate Anderson and Prosser shall we? Witches and Satanists do not mix - they are completely different beliefs as we outline in detail below.
1. There were no spells.
2. These despicable people were not charged with being Witches or Satanists.
3. They were not members of any occult group or society.
4. They did not use any known form of Witchcraft or Satanic rituals.
5. They did not own any ceremonial paraphernalia from either the Witchcraft / Pagan or the Satanic traditions.
6. They did not even claim to be Witches or Satanists.

The evil abusers are dross who would never be accepted into a genuine Coven, whether it was Witchcraft or Satanic. Yet Anderson and Prosser just throw the lie in to the mix to enrage the baying mob anyway.

As if the actual facts of the abuse that these depraved individuals had meted out to these poor children wasn't bad enough to report, the Mail had to excoriate into the stratosphere with:

The horrendous ordeals only emerged after the brave victims revealed what they had suffered to a couple they got to know, documenting accounts of depraved abuse, witchcraft and slaughtering of dogs in the dirty city hovel.

Witches do not abuse anyone, adults or children. Neither do they kill or harm animals. All witchcraft claims were dropped early in this trial when the defence first challenged them.

Anderson and Prosser may not know it but Witchcraft is a bona-fide religion across the world. Witches are not 'dirty' and they do not live in 'hovels'. These descriptors are the same kind of untruths which caused the death of six million Jews in Nazi Germany and here Prosser and Anderson glibly trot them out to demonise another section of the community even though Pagans and Witches have religious rights which make those statements a hate crime.

The stupendously ignorant inclusion of Witchcraft in that statement in a society which is now paranoid about diversity can be more readily seen if the word Witches were changed to Jews. Would Anderson and Prosser DARE say that Jews killed dogs and abused children? Because amongst many blood libels, that's what they've been accused of by Jew haters since the 12th century! Where do these hacks get off changing the truth and haphazardly incorporating casual hatred into their journalism, just because they think they can get away with it?

And then, right at the bottom of their article, as a kind of legal absolution, Anderson and Prosser add:

Prosecutors had withdrawn witchcraft allegations during the trial.

In other words, pandering to the conspiracyloons as though inferring that the Satanic content was somehow censored or banned when in fact, nothing they had written in relation to defamatory attacks on Witches and Satanists has been true and if anyone complains about their religious rights to the IPCC, the Mail's legal eagles will point to this disclaimer. Nice.

The entire history of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth, its horrendous cost to society, the tens of thousands of innocent people who have had their lives destroyed, and the thousands of little children who have suffered being split from their families for years, sometimes forever, for no good reason, occurred PRECISELY because of sloppy self-serving journalism such as that written by these two hacks from the Mail.

Back in 1991 the SAFF worked intensely with the Mail on Sunday team and the Daily Mail over many months providing contacts, unique documents, insight and rare evidence to show that the Rochdale and Orkney claimed Satanic Abuse cases were not just tragic mistakes but an organised campaign by Marxist politicians and fundamentalist troublemakers to foist the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth onto Britain.

Our founder undertook many extensive conversations with the late MoS editor, Iain Walker, about false accusations of SRA . SAFF evidence was crucial in the newspaper's award-winning campaign to clear the Rochdale families . Poor Iain will be turning in his grave at the drivel Prosser and Anderson have produced today, for there is a far bigger, more extensive and more shocking story in the Glasgow SRA case which these dolts have utterly missed! A story which might have enshrined their careers but instead they run with this gibberish.

Now do not get us wrong here, our criticism of the Glasgow SRA trial is not an attempt to minimise the suffering of the poor children involved, nor are we denying the evil machinations of this group of perverts who abused them. We are concerned only with the false attribution of this case as one of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse when it was nothing of the kind.

The SAFF was the FIRST organisation to identify SRA claims as a myth and we are the only group to have tracked this dangerous myth of SRA continuously for over three decades. Despite the many thousands of historians, sociologists, criminologists, anomolists and other specialists whose opinions on the Satanic Panic now litter the internet regurgitating the 'received opinion' only the SAFF has the on-the-ground, true inside track, which can make sense of it all.

How It All Began

The very first claimed case of SRA was in Broxtowe, Nottingham in 1988. That involved multiple perpetrators in an extended family, just like the Glasgow Case. The Broxtowe case also involved almost identical claims from young children about animal and baby sacrifice which were worked-up by Satan Hunters in Nottinghamshire Social Services.

But, as in the Glasgow case, the police investigating Broxtowe could find not a single forensic fact to support the claims of SRA and concluded there was no Satanic Ritual Abuse in the case. [see full story in the newspaper cutting above Satanic Inquisitors From The Town Hall - double click to get a larger version to read]

The perpetrators, (for just as in the Glasgow case, the children were abused terribly), were successfully prosecuted through the courts and given large sentences for their heinous abuse of children. The Nottinghamshire police not only publicly said that there wasn't a shred of evidence of Satanic Abuse in the case, but to quell the hysteria the chief constable actually published a report ramming home that fact, which was sent to the Home Office. Even so, hacks in the media ran with the SRA memes from the Satan Hunters just as they did today and it caused a mania over Satanic Abuse which has lasted 35 years. Obviously the hacks Anderson and Prosser know nothing of this or they would perhaps have chosen their words more carefully.

The SAFF predict that the Glasgow case is the start of a new bout of SRA hysteria in Scotland. You will watch it happen over the next few months. Many of the SRA hunters in social work whose belief in SRA was eventually discredited in England moved to Scotland and have been sensitising police and the social services there to ridiculous claims of SRA ever since.

Why did the Procurator Fiscal’s Office chance it?

One has to ask WHY the Crown persisted with tagging flimsy claims of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse onto this case after three decades of getting it wrong so many times on SRA before? An inquiry must now be held about how and why the lawyer at the Procurator Fiscal’s Office who decided to list archaic charges of Witchcraft against the accused was allowed to do so.

• There was no forensic evidence of Witchcraft or Satanism.

• There were no black-books or manuals found,

• No robes or other paraphernalia were ever discovered.

• No photos

• No videos

• No incense

• No ritual tools.

• No Pagan or Satanic network unearthed.

• No bodies of sacrificed animals.

• No baths of blood.

And there was absolutely no evidence that those accused had anything at all to do with any Witchcraft sect or coven. The only thing the Prosecution had was the tales told to them by the children, which, just as in every case in the past , were fantasies as the dropping of the indictments shows.

False tales of horrific occult ritual abuse, worked up by consistent questioning of children were at the root of every single false case of Satanic Abuse in the 1990 panic. The children are not 'lying' they are simply being lead to fabricate memories, or exaggerate memories by crusading social workers and pseudo-therapists on the make who continue to pester them with questions until they make something up. There is absolutely undeniable evidence of this happening in all the court records and tape recordings of the 'disclosure' questioning of children by social workers at the time.

Could it be that, in the Glasgow case evidence was so thin that the Procurator Fiscal’s Office believed that tagging on claims of Witches and Satanists would sway the jury? Maybe; SAFF has research which shows how the occult and devil-worship is sometimes dragged into weak trials to abominate the accused in the eyes of juries. Tragically it is a legal strategy that sometimes works. But not in this case for here actual Witch Crimes were claimed - even though they did not exist and the court threw them out.

So, once again, allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse have been proven untrue in a British court. Yet again, after dozens of failed past instances. The myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse has been dashed a thousand times and proved to be sheer nonsense a thousand times - but still it will not die.

Satanic Abuse Will not Die

Why is this so? Why do millions of evangelical Christians become obsessed with it and end up looking like fools? Why do Social Work Departments country-wide still make idiots of themselves with claimed cases of SRA which collapse? Simple. They want it to be true. It is a confirmation of their own belief in God. We shall explain it all in detail below. Some readers may have difficulty in believing the factual information we present about how this state of affairs has come to pass and how Courts, Police and the Procurator Fiscal’s Office have time after time been made to look foolish over considering the myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse to be real.

The SAFF has documented evidence of this manic belief in a phantom which has caused failure after failure happening consistently over the last 35 years in UK courts, particularly in Scotland. It brings the whole of our Justice System into disrepute and the Law Lords should ensure it never allows British Justice to be opened to ridicule in this way ever again.

We have published reproductions of documents as proof, on this web-page below.

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

It was therefore only a matter of time before the clique of satan hunters who started the 1990 Satanic Panic interfered with and corrupted yet another case with false tales. With the latest SRA trial of eleven people which opened on 5 September 2023 at the High Court in Glasgow, the foolishness of the high and mighty who run Scotland returned to persecute more people for supernatural crimes which never existed.

It's like being transported back to the Satanic Panic of the 1990s, or Salem in 1692. The very same mistakes, false claims, exaggerations and incorrect suppositions are being repeated by a new generation of half-wits in the police, judiciary, social services and Media. The charge-sheet of the 2023 Glasgow trial reads like a re-run of all the other failed Scottish SRA cases.

Ayr, Orkney, Isle of Lewis,

Remember them?

Did you know most of the extreme cases of SRA also occurred in Scotland?

Did you know that the first public instance of the 1990 Satanic Panic began not in England, but in Dundee, in September 1988?

A witty SAFF volunteer just said that instead of being nicknamed 'Beano Town', Dundee should be called Devil Town. Devil Town Dundee! It has a certain ring to it does it not, for Dundee University is still a centre of academic dissemination of mediaeval nonsense on Witches and Satanists.

The demonology of Scottish Witchcraft appears to be deeply embedded in the fundamentalist psyche in Scotland. Irretrievably so it would seem. Look at these motifs which are, after decades of the Media promoting them, now seen as a component part of all Satanic Abuse allegations (even though no case has ever been prosecuted which has confirmed any of them):

• Drinking Blood
  

• People wearing 'Devil' Masks,

• Robes,

• Snakes

• Spiders

• Animal sacrifice,

• Child Sacrifice,

• Ouija Boards,

• Child Porn,

• Snuff Movies,

• Torture,

• Ritual dancing,

• Trapping victims in small spaces, Cages, Caves

• Crucifying or Hanging on hooks,

• Cooking victims in microwave ovens,

• Baths full of blood.

It was all back on the agenda for this Glasgow case in 2023!And of course the media were salivating at the prospect of hysterical overload.

The Satanic Footprint

Note that all of these things in the above list are simply the inner fears and phobias of children and adults which rise up in their minds when they are asked to imagine horrific things to do with 'witches'.

In 1991 the SAFF first published a monograph titled The Satanic Footprint which compared motifs and memes across dozens of claimed cases of SRA which had occurred during the early part of the 1990 panic. Our intention was to provide a method for social workers and police to profile 'Satanic' claims to see if there was any truth in them at the outset and avoid false cases.

What our report showed was that because children and their interrogators are by and large ignorant of what Witches do, and consistently fed with improperganda about Witches in fairy stories, legends and in the Media, that the memes which predominated were a result of stereotypical phobias.

For example drawings of Witches with Pointy Hats (see illustration to the right which comes from an actual case of claimed SRA) which is a media stereotype - Witches and Satanists do not wear pointy hats! These claimed motifs had no importance in the traditional worship and cosmology of Pagans/Witches - they are residual images from Fairy Stories told to children and pushed by the Media.

In short what the Satan Hunters claim Satanists and Witches do has nothing to do with what Witches or Satanists actually do, but epitomises what they THINK witches do after watching TV cartoons, Movies and listening to Fairy Tales about 'wicked-witches'.

The Evil of Microwave Ovens and the NSPCC

Microwave ovens are an example of how apocryphal rumour is embellished and added to the demonisation of Witches and Satanists. Claims of children being killed in Microwave Ovens are a key feature in the 2023 Glasgow SRA case. The story of the incorporation of Microwave ovens into the SRA myth is therefore worthy of inspection

Microwave ovens featured as a (false) claim in the very FIRST Satan Seminar held in Devil Town Dundee in 1988. Watch the circular Scottish links folks! The assembled throng of several hundred delegates from social work departments, the police and childrens' charities, who attended that Satan Seminar in Dundee were told that Satanists put babies in microwave ovens to cook them alive and then eat their flesh as a modern form of sacrifice! In the current Glasgow case the claim was that they had put children in a microwave to kill them but the implication was clearly 'sacrifice'.

The first public knowledge of the Microwave oven claim was in the despicable NSPCC Press Release put out on the 17th July 1989 which largely started the Satanic Panic in the UK. The NSPCC called a press conference at their HQ to announce that they had 'discovered' that Satanists were horribly abusing and killing children in occult rites in the UK.

It was a SENSATIONAL statement which, at a stroke, backed up and confirmed the worst fears of social work agitators, cult hunters and fundamentalist provocateurs. It was also untrue, but the backing of the NSPCC for these ludicrous allegations was a key confirmation of what RAINS (Ritual Abuse Information Network Support, a coterie of leading-edge feminists in social work) had been claiming for months previously and therefore the NSPCC's backing authoritatively rubber-stamped a belief in the existence of SRA in the minds of the public. Such an august and respected national treasure as the NSPCC would never lie about something like this would it? Well yes actually it did, as we will show below.

More than anything else it was when the NSPCC jumped on the SRA bandwagon that the 1990 Satanic Panic took off and the panic itself could be said to have begun on that day. Prior to July 1989 coverage of SRA had been over-the-top articles in the Tabloids which had printed false, but supposedly first-hand accounts of Satanic Abuse from deluded Christian fundamentalists. This was a relatively new psychological syndrome which occurred alongside similar claims of Alien Abduction ( see The Self Victimisation Syndrome (J Schnabel) 1993 ) in which psychiatrists and psychologists were reporting thousands of people stepping forward to claim that they had been abducted by aliens or Satanists and sexually abused, with stories which were completely untrue but held as a firm reality by the patients themselves).

When the NSPCC ('the Nation's Favourite Charity') stepped up to confirm their twisted opinion that an SRA threat existed, the Media went into overdrive. The Microwave claim was subsequently cut out of the NSPCC press release at the last moment, but as Melanie Phillips of the Guardian said in her write up:

'References in their briefing notes to a human sacrifice and a baby in a microwave were deleted from their remarks although the Daily Mirror got hold of them and duly plastered them across its front page. The charity's press manager said these claims were deleted because they were uncorroborated. But since all the other claims were similarly unsubstantiated, what's the difference?( Guardian, 16 March 1990.)

The way in which the NSPCC mislead the British public over Satanic Ritual Abuse was wicked, it happened during a period when donations had fallen considerably and some journalists began to question motives. By March 10th of the following year the NSPCC was back-tracking big-time and told the Daily Mail that they were 'sorry for their wild statements' (see image right double click for a large version to read)

What the public did not know was that the SAFF had been in constant communication with the NSPCC over false claims of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse as far back as April 1989 when we had conducted correspondence with Ian Gilmour the Director of the NSPCC to warn him of the dangers of them jumping on the SRA bandwagon!

We offered our expertise and training assistance to the society to avoid problems. He handed the correspondence over to Kevin Barrett, the NSPCCs Policy Information Officer who played catch-as-catch-can with our sincere attempts to educate and inform the society. After patiently trying for months to get the NSPCC to see sense and being given the run around we suspected that SRA was just too good a cause for the NSPCC to miss. We said we would tell the public how the NSPCC had dodged the issue and devalued our evidence which showed that SRA was a Myth. The response of the NSPCC was shocking. They ordered Mischon de Reya, their blue-chip lawyers, to write a letter to us threatening to take the SAFF to court if we did! In response we called the NSPCC's legal bluff and went ahead and published the correspondence (see rightmost column for full details).

Later, when the NSPCC decided to jettison the idea of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse in March 1990 after their key actions in creating the scandalous Rochdale false SRA case, their weasel words were far less sensational than the false claims they had made in July 1989. 'Britain's Favourite Charity' then began to sit on the fence about SRA. This is what Kevin Barrett of the NSPCC ( the same one that had given the SAFF the run-around BEFORE Rochdale ) told the Guardian's Catherine Bennett:

Not until allegations of organised satanic abuse in Rochdale and the Orkney cases had been investigated and dropped for lack of evidence did the flood of child cases begin to subside. The NSPCC which in 1990 indulged the media's appetite for satanic horrors, with stories of blood drinking and animal sacrifice, began a dignified retreat into agnosticism. "We're not saying it doesn't exist" is the latest position from the NSPCC's policy director Kevin Barratt. " We're saying we don't have evidence of it from our workers and the families we've worked with". [Guardian: Satanic Verses, 10 Sept 1994]

So the NSPCC top-brass knew ( four months before they went public with claims of SRA ) that the allegations were suspect and the people they were liaising with (RAINS, Reachout et al who, we told them, were providing false information, even lies, yet they continued to jump on the SRA bandwagon and terminally disgrace their organisation anyway.

How hard did the NSPCC try to avoid SAFF evidence that Satanic Ritual Child Abuse did not exist? Very Hard. In the rightmost column of this webpage you will see a diary of correspondence between the SAFF and the NSPCC right at the start of the Satanic Panic and the arrogance and dismissiveness of those who lead the NSPCC at that time is abundantly clear. Obviously SRA was an advertising opportunity too good to miss.

When you read their weasel words you have to ask yourself how many children the NSPCC really save from hurt every year to qualify for their £125 Million pound budget and six figure salaries. Almost every year they start some new initiative on child-protection to generate funds from the British Public but there is absolutely no scientific evidence to prove that more funds mean more children are saved by them. In the case of NSPCC's backing of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse and involvement in all the key cases which failed, 86 children in the UK had their young lives destroyed by supporters of this fanatical belief, not saved.

The Genesis of Satanic Abuse

Few people now remember that SRA allegations had been sporadically surfacing via Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens' madcap campaign during 1988, but up to this point no sensible child-charity had jumped on the bandwagon. It was only when the NSPCC issued their July 17th 1989 press release 'rubber stamping' the existence of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse that the hysteria took off across the nation. Yet what kind of in-depth research was it that made the NSPCC decide to go for the Satanic Child Abuse Myth? Let us tell you; they sent out a questionaire to their 66 branches around the UK. Seven of these local branches said they were working with cases which could involve claims of Satanic Abuse and another 7 branches said they were aware of the 'threat' of SRA (whatever that meant considering no cases had so far been found to prove the fanciful allegations).

Of course as there had been literally thousands of column inches in the tabloid press

with uncorroborated false claims of SRA during the previous year the seven branches who reported knowing about the 'threat' could be ignored, almost everyone had heard about it. The seven branches which reported actual cases were working on the first celebrated cases claimed to have been SRA in the UK. Broxtowe, Rochdale, Epping, Ayrshire etc., which the NSPCC had a hand in influencing.

The NSPCC had financed a clique of radical feminist Marxists in its ranks under the sub-group of BASPCAN (British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect - since 2014 known as TACPP ( The Association of Child Protection Professionals ) which held its 2015 and 2016 conferences in Edinburgh under the aegis of the University of Edinburgh. BAPSCAN published key 'papers' on SRA for 'child welfare professionals' during 1988 and 1989, all of which concluded that SRA was a threat and these must have influenced the NSPCC's approach to it. So the NSPCC was simply presenting experimental theories and claims as a reality when they were untested. Yet that is not what they told the public. They told the public that '

." The NSPCC said a major fear must now be that some children have been killed during ceremonies and that others were seriously at risk " (Press Association report of the NSPCC 17 July 1989 Press Conference confirming the existence of Satanic Abuse )

SRA Cases. Now You See It - Now You Don't.

People forget entirely that prior to 1988 there was no concept of Satanic Ritual Abuse in UK social work. The phenomenon was simply not recorded.
It wasn't overlooked, missed or otherwise ignored; It simply did not exist.
The police did not stumble on any SRA cases.
Social Services did not see or discover any SRA cases in the thousands of instances of abuse they dealt with every year.
No journalists or broadcasters exposed SRA cases.
SRA cases simply did not exist until the privatisation of the child-scare industry created a hyper-vigilance which resulted in fantasies about SRA.

SAFF believe that the NSPCC caused embryonic SRA suspicions to turn into a manic nationwide hysteria. The diary of our correspondence with the NSPCC shows that they had a choice not to, but went ahead with the sensational and unprovable claims anyway, either for the publicity , or the fund raising, or the wish to follow leading-edge thinking in social work. Whatever it was, their actions effectively resulted in the mental torture of 86 innocent children and the splitting up of innocent families. In one case a child was taken from his mother and father and kept in care for SIX years! SIX YEARS. Remember this when an NSPCC volunteer next rattles a donation tin in your face and uses gingoistic slogans like 'Not one More Child'.

By March 10th 1991 the NSPCC was forced to eat humble-pie after their Rochdale SRA case had collapsed and they were castigated by the media.

They began to lose the highly lucrative 'at-risk' registers worth £140,000 per annum from Manchester alone (today's value nearly half a million pounds). The NSPCC had the contracts for at-risk registers in most large cities and their obsession with SRA was now seen as irresponsible.

Jim Harding apologised on behalf of the NSPCC for using 'wild statements' that they could not substantiate. The Mail On Sunday headline reads: A Rethink by The NSPCC. NSPCC Sorry for 'Wild Statements'.

There is no mention that the SAFF had warned them that this would happen two months earlier! If you want to see a blow-by-blow account of just how hard the NSPCC worked to turn a blind eye to the truth about false claims of SRA then check out the long series of correspondence we had with them during the early months of that year here in the rightmost column. The NSPCC knew just how paper-thin we said claims of SRA were but never engaged with us about it and still went ahead to ride the tsunami of hysteria anyway!

The child scare industry is big business, in 2023 the NSPCC turned over £123M (£125M if you add in Childlying which the NSPCC owns) NSPCC Staff Salaries and pensions soaked up £60M of that and they still ended up with a £20M surplus to stick in the bank after operating expenses.

What Was Happening In Scotland?

Yet despite this apparent public contrition over SRA claims by the NSPCC in England, just four days later at 7pm on the 14th March 1991 a coterie of SRA hunters, some of whom had influenced the NSPCC, were interviewed on BBC SCOTLAND radio "FOCUS" ( a current affairs programme ) about 'Ritual Abuse', pushing the idea of SRA and implying it was a threat to children in Scotland. The list of participants makes interesting reading. Here they are:

Mhairi Trickett, (Chairperson of Orkney Islands Social Services during the Orkney SRA case - )

Christine Johnson Second in command of Team 4, the Nottingham Social Services team which took charge of the Broxtowe false SRA case. She and her team insisted that they had found the first case of SRA in Britain. Note that the Broxtowe case had already been pronounced false in Nottinghamshire council's JET Report Inquiry during the previous April 1990 ( nearly a year before Johnson was interviewed here about the existence of SRA.) The JET report put paid to continuing false claims of SRA made by Team 4 in relation to Broxtowe. Additionally, the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire provided the Home Office with his own official report which concluded that there was no Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Broxtowe case. This was sent to the Home Office on 4th November 1990, six months prior to Johnson's interview being broadcast.

Also present or interviewed in this BBC Scotland programme were

Geoffrey Dickens MP (fundamentalist lay preacher and parliamentary Representative of Childwatch in Hull, whose director, Dianne Core, claimed 4,000 children a year were being sacrificed to Satan - see image to the right) .

Ian Gilmour ( former acting director of social work, Glasgow Council and president of ADSW 1991/2 Chair West of Scotland Child Protection Consortium)

Norman Dunning from the RSSPCC ( Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Scottish counterpart to the NSPCC since 1995 renamed 'Children First'). The RSSPCC was later heavily criticised in Lord Clyde's Public Inquiry Report of the Orkney SRA Scandal.

Jan Van Vagdendonk [ He is Introduced as a development consultant for Child Sexual Abuse with National Children's Home, with the words. "he has seen 20 cases of ritualistic abuse in the past 2 yrs ( This must be a reference to the 21 cases of SRA which Tim Tate claimed to have found in the Cook Report broadcast in July 1989 - every single one of which failed in the course of time ). "

Tim Tate & Ray Wyre - colleagues and first-believers in SRA who helped import the myth from the USA. They worked together on the Broxtowe false SRA case with Team 4 and other SRA crusaders. According to the JET report, It was they who gave the scandalous Satanic Indicators invented by Catherine Gould to Social Work Team 4. The JET report said that SRA claims did not exist in the case until after the foster mothers and Team 4 were given the infamous Satanic Indicators. Later, modified 'indicators' from this original list were to be involved in almost ALL the early claimed cases of SRA. They were read by social workers who imposed their prejudice upon the children they were supposedly 'helping' by asking leading questions related to the 'indicators'.

Tate and Wyre had collaborated on the Cook Report's July 1989 'The Devil's Work' , a hysterically sensational and inaccurate hour long 'documentary' which unleashed the Satanic Panic on the unsuspecting British public in tandem with the NSPCC's own public announcement.

You would think that after the failures over Broxtowe, the scandal of Rochdale and the about-turn of the NSPCC the people interviewed in this BBC Scotland current affairs programme would have been more cautious about their prognostications about a phenomenon which despite acres of newsprint still had not produced a single genuine case to prove the existence of SRA in a nationwide hunt which had lasted three years, but the following extracts from this 20 minute BBC Focus programme make it clear that whilst the NSPCC was back-tracking on SRA in England, in the Scottish Capital, Satan Hunters were selling Satanic Ritual Child Abuse as though the failures of Broxtowe, Epping, Ayrshire and the Rochdale investigations had never ever happened.

Norman Dunning big-wig from the RSSPCC, chair of West Scotland Child Protection Consortium, appeared alongside Ian Gilmour, acting director of social work for Glasgow Council and president of ADSW (Association of Directors of Social Work) , and said:

NORMAN DUNNING: "The easiest thing to say is that we are beginning to learn about this problem of ritualistic and satanic abuse and to some extent we are still unsure of what we are speaking about. I mean the Societies' knowledge of this comes, in the first place, because people who are now adults have begun to tell us things that happened to them in their childhood which at one time we might have dismissed as fantasy but we are now beginning to realise that they telling us quite factually what their experiences were. And we have also had one or two contacts with children more recently where we have assisted with investigations and we believe that these children might have been involved in some really quite worrying widespread central practices involving groups of people and there may have been a ritual element to this.

JAN VAN VAGDENDONK: "The ritual is used to scare children into silence and also in a sense to make sure that when they do tell their story it is so unbelievable that nobody in their right minds, almost, decide that the children are telling the truth. An example of this is a child, a 2 year old, who is talking about having been abused by a lion and it makes absolutely no sense to people until a nine or ten year old child says yes that actually happens but I knew it wasn't a real lion because there were zips round its paws. So we now know that the child was likely to have been abused by a person dressed up as a lion.

CHRISTINE JOHNSON: Is introduced as leader of Team 4 and founder of RAINS: She says: "I don't think there is a recognised definition of ritual abuse for social workers. When we came across the issue in Nottingham we worked out our own definition which was that ritual abuse is the severe sexual and physical and emotional abuse of children set in a context of symbols and activities which appear to be religious or magical or have supernatural overtones and where these are repeated over a length of time in order to intimidate or frighten children."

This is a good example of how crusaders against non-existent Satanic Abuse worked the language to suit themselves and convince an audience that their worries are not the hysterical reactions they really are. SAFF know this definition as the 'Lone Ritualist Definition' and RAINS repeated it many times when they wanted to imply that they were hunting lone paedophiles who used occult imagery to frighten children into compliance, but this is just a convenient lie which happens to co-incide with 10 cases of regular child-abuse which had some peripheral Occult content which Reachout Trust and Tim Tate had dredged up from the thousands of child abuse prosecutions over a ten year period which, when tortuously squeezed to mis-portray some kind of occult connection, were published and then held by the rest of RAINS as 'proof' that paedophiles were using the cloak of Satanism for their perverted desires. The SAFF had already exposed and discredited these faux cases in 1990 with our publication The Truth and The Tales ( which clearly showed how the caucus of Satan Hunters had mislead a parliamentary committee in the House of Commons ) , and also in our 1991 expose of Tim Tate's collection of 'SRA cases' here: http://saff.nfshost.com/tatebkli.htm

As you will see if you read the above links, the 'proven cases of SRA' which RAINS are quoting are anything but evidence of Satanic Abuse. By widening the definition out in this way it allows almost any peripheral occult happening, quote, or location to be used to designate the case as 'Satanic' and up the numbers, but this is just semantic flim-flam.

When speaking to a 'sold' audience RAINS are absolutely clear that what they are talking about is a pan-global network of multiple abusers who are part of an international Satanic Sex Cult and whose sole motive for supposedly abusing children is to defile them in the eyes of Satan and turn them into perpetual slaves of the sex-cult.

This network simply does not exist but it does not stop RAINS from waxing lyrical about it as though it does, as you can see from the extract below from a Guardian article in 1994 where the prime mover of RAINS, Joan Coleman, makes it perfectly clear that she is not talking about perverts dressed up in lion costumes.

Isn't it astonishing just how easily these Satan Hunters build entirely fictitious ideas and reasoning from the outpourings of their mentally unstable patients even though they are clearly instances of Factitious Disorder/ Munchaussen's Syndrome. These crusading shrinks rationalise and sequentialise their patients' outpourings to make them sound cohesive but they are anything but that. What the Guardian reader does not see is the way that the story was created in a patchwork of out-of-sequence claims over months of 'therapy' where the SRA obsessed therapist uses leading questions to elicit further 'proof' and the patient dutifully makes something up. The 'therapist' then collates it all and presents it as an accurate profile of SRA and by omitting anything which does not align with current RAINS collective thinking, produces a 'consensus' which supports and encourages other 'therapists' to interrogate their own patients about key motifs, later 'confirming' that they too have experienced the same things which become a completely fictitious modus-operandi for SRA. If you want a blow-by-blow account of how this is done see http://saff.nfshost.com/colemanrains.htm

Now back to the BBC Focus programme:

MHAIRI TRICKETT; who had overseen much of the social work involvement with the W children in Orkney, said:

'The police and social work department were in receipt of information which made it essential to take these [Orkney Case] children to a place of safety. Not to take any action could have been construed as negligence."

What these self-styled SRA 'experts' were saying was first broadcast on the BBC on 14 March 1991 when the Orkney SRA scandal had exploded in the Scottish and UK press. The month previously the RSSPCC (the counterpart to the NSPCC in Scotland) had obtained legal permission to raid and lift 9 children from their parents on false allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse in Orkney!

On the morning of 27th February 1991 raids were made on accusations from children at least one of whom had already retracted his fantasies, but it made no difference. Nine children were taken away from four innocent families and it took 18 months for their parents to get them back home out of the clutches of the wicked Scottish Social Services.

The other 7 children involved in false allegations of SRA in Orkney never did get back home. They had been in the clutches of Orkney social services since 1989 for 'ordinary' abuse and their family was simply destroyed, as you can read in the right most column, (see Orkney 7 Action Group)

Like a crocodile sheds tears when it is eating its prey the child-scare industry did its worst whilst claiming to be looking after the best interests of children. When you read what they did to the W family you will be incensed. The Orkney case is pivotal to all that has since gone wrong in child-care in Scotland. As the current Glasgow case proves, the canker of false tales of Satanic Ritual Abuse was never cut, out despite several costly Inquiries.

The inside story of the W family Is in the rightmost column of this page. See Orkney 7 Action Group Press Release:

How Stupid People Who Lead Scotland Put Children At Risk

Look at these hysterical headlines. The Great and the Good promised you they would never again fall for these mad SRA stories epitomised by the headlines on the right but they have and false allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse are back to haunt us all in 2023.

Look at those terrible headlines again. With the national outrage following the 1991 Orkney Satanic Ritual Abuse fiasco and the £6M Public Inquiry to put it right, you might think that the Scottish Government would have rushed to educate their social workers, child-care specialists, police and judiciary to never again fall for the lies pushed by obsessed believers in the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth, but they did the precise opposite as we shall reveal.

The Scottish educational establishment, knowingly or unknowingly made room for these evil Satan Hunters to do their worst. They have for decades paid some of them nice salaries as self-styled 'experts' to proselytise the 'dangers' of non-existent Satanic Ritual abuse in Scottish universities and encouraged them to 'train' Scottish social workers and community groups in re-designating mentally vulnerable people as victims of Satanic Abuse which does not exist.

Scotgov has thrown resources at small charities run by fundamentalists specifically set up to perpetuate sectarian lies about Satanic Ritual Child Abuse (SRA) which damaged so many innocent Scottish children and their families in the 1990s. Now, 30 years later, in the Glasgow 2023 SRA case, another generation of gullible people in the police, judiciary and social services have suckered in to one of the most persistent and damaging social myths of the 21st century. We will tell you how they did it. It is unique information that you will find nowhere else.

The 'experts' who got 194 things wrong.

Lord Clyde's Public Inquiry into the Orkney False Satanic Ritual Abuse case made one hundred and ninety four recommended changes. It was a REQUIREMENT put upon the devolved authorities because of the hysteria which had taken hold of Child-protection in Scotland. Lest we forget; these obsessive SRA hunters in social services ended up kidnapping children from their innocent families in despicable dawn raids and kept them in care for YEARS without any evidence whatsoever except for mindless prejudice.

These Do-gooders didn't 'save' children - they ruined their lives.

Nobody was safe. Every parent had nightmares of it happening to them. One family was implicated simply because they had a Dennis Wheatley novel on their bookshelf! Wheatley wrote many successful novels on Witchcraft and published 50 MILLION copies of his books. Yet stupid policemen saw it as 'evidence' of Satanic Ritual Abuse!

A completely innocent church Minister was falsely accused of embroiling children in Satanic Ceremonies in BLACK ROBES where chanting occurred (As if all ministers did not normally wear black surplices and chant in church!)

The hysteria caused gullible Scots police and social services to break up loving families and even sought to permanently foster the daughters of one mother who had been falsely accused - as a form of punishment for resisting the power shadow of the Nazi SS in Orkney.

It is impossible now to feel the terror and fear struck into the hearts of those innocent children at being snatched from their beds; nor the long-term trauma they suffered at the hands of self-righteous do-gooders in Scotland who were actually being paid to alleviate the suffering of children but ended up doing the reverse.

The end result was that the misuse of child-protection laws and the despicable subsequent attempt at a legal cover-ups caused social work in Scotland to be reviled by the public

The result of the vicious machinations of believers in Satanic Abuse was to cause a complete lack of faith in social work in Scotland, yet here they are doing it again in the Glasgow case!

During the Clyde Inquiry the key personnel who believed in SRA and who had started the Orkney fiasco and then retreated behind 'case confidentiality' to avoid the public seeing what they had done, were made to stand in the witness box and admit their malpractice. The extent of the lunacy which had infected Scottish Social Work was then exposed. Some children were continually interrogated to get them to say any foolish thing which confirmed the prejudice and suspicions of the social services crusaders. The children were horribly questioned 40 (forty) times in 13 days. That is child abuse in itself! From people whose sole job is to save the suffering of small children!

It Was The Satanic Turtles What Did it!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a media creation for kids which had been popularised in film, in magazines and on TV at the time. The Orkney Inquiry records that children were shown posters of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and from what the kids fantasised about this the 'experts' deduced that Satanic Abuse had occurred! Cowabunga!

The madness was clear! Lord Clyde's Inquiry found 194 faults with the way Orkney Social Service Department and the RSSPCC had dealt with it all. So, after originally sitting back and not only allowing these travesties of justice to occur but cooperating with and supporting believers in Satanic Abuse, the Scottish government, and anyone remotely criticised over the scandal (and there were MANY) became contrite, promising to the rafters that they would make those 194 needed changes to ensure that the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth could not again harm innocent children and their familiess. There will be NO more 'Dawn Lifts', they said. We shall learn from our mistakes, they said. But did they?

After the Orkney Inquiry did you believe that the predilection for believing in the Devil had been exorcised from Scottish Social Services? Then you would be Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

Despite the self-flagellation no-one was ever sacked from Orkney Social Services. A handful resigned and walked away with their 'honour' intact.

The RSSPCC, which was heavily involved, virtually collapsed. Heads of Orkney SS retired early with nice pensions. But not one single social worker was actually made to pay for their numerous errors and victimisation of the innocent families.

'Liz MacLean (see right) has no regrets about her role in the Orkney child abuse case despite being a prime target of criticism in the 343-page inquiry report by Lord Clyde.'... ' Janette Chisolm her working partner shares much of the same feelings..the two have hit out at the Public Inquiry three weeks after its conclusions were published .' ....
(Sunday Times. 22: November 1992 )

Liz MacLean was mentioned 372 times in Lord Clyde's Inquiry report. One of them was that she had not kept proper records of the crucial disclosure sessions with the children from which allegations of SRA were suspected, thus it was impossible for outsiders to see what the children had really said about the abuse and gauge how relevant those allegations were. Inconsistencies between the RSSPCC, MacLean and the Orkney SS department were evident as the Inquiry records:

13:16 Such distortion may well have occurred in the present case. The account conveyed over the telephone by Mrs Liz MacLean to Mrs Susan Millar on 13th February was one of penetrative abuse by all the adults of all the children. When Mrs MacLean addressed the social workers on 26th February the picture she conveyed was one where all the adults had abused all the children and the indication given of the kind of abuse was that it was penetrative. But while that appears to have been the understanding on the part of the social workers that was not the understanding which the Police had obtained from the information given to them. It is by no means clear from Constable Williamson’s record of the interviews that all the adults had been engaged in abuse and it could indeed be questioned whether even if each of the children had been drawn into the circle each child had suffered such abuse. The absence of a full transcript of the critical interviews makes it impossible to ascertain with any certainty precisely what the W children had said or to assess the reliability of the account which they had given. At least it can be noticed that there was a significant inconsistency in the accounts given by the interviewers of the allegations of abuse.

Liz MacLean, then the chief investigator for the RSSPCC, was made redundant in June 1992 along with 22 other RSSPCC staff. She had helped interview the W children 40 times. The Clyde report shows that she was involved in major decisions such as refusing to allow the children to have any letters and cards sent by their parents when they were taken into care. This basically cut the kids off from their parents at the most traumatic time and can only have been a result of the RAINS madcap theory that Satanists could impose trigger-words and trigger symbols in letters, birthday cards, etc. which would strike childrens' minds into a zombified state, frighten them or stop them speaking about their abuse. See: http://saff.nfshost.com/triggerw.htm

MacLean, who was also connected with Scotland's longest running case in Scottish criminal history ( the failed Ayrshire Satanic Ritual Abuse case in 1990) 'disappeared' sometime later according to this clipping. - see cutting -. Anyone know what she's doing today?

How SRA Hysteria Grew

The clique of believers in manic tales of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse which had formed around the very first allegations by RAINS in England linked to the Broxtowe case in 1988, pushed out the idea across the land in articles in the social work press and in The Guardian which was rather too supportive of Satan Hunters' claims.

All this activity soon produced the first mass case of suspected Satanic Abuse in Scotland in Ayr in June 1990 when eight children were kidnapped by the state. The Dawn Lifts of the Ayrshire case children occurred just weeks after the Rochdale false SRA case had started in England but just before the Orkney claims surfaced.

The twisted minds of the social workers, who had been converted to believe in SRA, ensured that the poor children who were taken from their innocent parents were not returned for years. If you want to see just how perfidious Social Workers can be look at this:

The last boy released by their SS captors in Rochdale was sent back home in December 1996 SIX YEARS after being snatched from his bed in those evil dawn raids Yet he and his parents had been pronounced innocent by the police in September 1990 after their inquiries had ended with no case to answer.

He was kept captive by Rochdale Social Services for six long years AFTER the police had exonerated his parents!

The Ayrshire case began when in the summer of 1990 four boys and four girls, aged 10 months to 11 years were given initial social services examinations which indicated abuse and were removed into care by social workers using place-of-safety orders at an initial hearing in Ayr in August 1990. It finally concluded five years later in 1995 when sheriff Colin Miller produced a 430 page official report which roundly criticised the social workers involved, including Lyn Gilmour and June Gardiner.

The history of SRA in the UK is tainted by the fact that not a single social worker or police officer has ever been prosecuted for the malpractice they have committed against hundreds of innocent families. Every single one of them did their worst and walked away with fat pensions. Some made a successful lifelong career out of persisting in their discredited allegations, as we will outline below. Some have actually been 'honoured' by the State!

'The parents bitterly criticised the social workers whose investigations in 1990 led to the initial care orders. The Strathclyde social work department had failed to learn the lessons of the Cleveland child sex abuse scandal in 1987, they said. "Like other parents, I handed my girl to these people for tests," the girl's father said. "They said I would get her back in two or three days - and it was five YEARS. Five years in which she was crying in the dark." '
[source: independent Newspaper 28 February 1995 ]

Five Years in Which my little daughter
was crying alone and in the dark

How the RAINS clique Manipulated Scottish child care on Satanic Abuse

Most of the public may have believed the weasel words of the authorities when the spotlight of publicity was upon them, but what did the great and the good in Scotland actually do? They allowed the mischievousness of Satan Hunters to continue and even gave grants and funding to groups such as RANS (Ritual Abuse Information Network Scotland) which was a clique connected to the lobby which had helped start the 1990 Satan Myth in England and Wales. '

No. The Scottish government did not rid social work of these Satan Hunters, instead they continued to encourage a clique of obsessive believers in SRA despite the errors of Orkney and Ayrshire. It was only a matter of time before the Satan Hunters did it again and that was in the Isle of Lewis case which began in 2003, ten years after the Orkney Scandal had fallen from public view and had been conveniently forgotten by those in Scotland whose job it is to protect children and their families

The Isle of Lewis case - another travesty of police and social service judgement based on ridiculous untrue claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse

In October 2003 thirteen adults were arrested and accused of the abuse of three children on the Isle of Lewis in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.

The combined police and social services investigation began earlier in July when a young person began making bizarre claims about ritual sex and the inquiry quickly grew into another hysterical panic with claims of an 'island wide Satanic paedophile ring'. Yes folks, we were here again witnessing hyper-vigilant child protectionists having a hysterical fit over the non-existent threat of SRA. Rochdale had been forgotten, Ayr had been, ignored ; Orkney and it's £6M inquiry had been chucked out the window.

One falsely accused family, The Campbell's, were among 11 people arrested that October morning in dawn raids on homes on Lewis; but others were arrested as far away as Leicestershire, West Yorkshire and Dorset.

We remind readers that the Social Services Inspectorate had specifically banned the use of 'dawn lifts' of children after they had been used in the Rochdale SRA Case in 1990. Yet here we are, after the tragic mistakes of Orkney, with Scottish social workers and police doing it again in 2003. What it shows is that providing self-regulating rules to stop social workers and police who believe in SRA from incriminating innocent people does not work.

After Rochdale the government imposed a blanket ruling that any social workers who came across any suggestions or claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse MUST before they take any action, report it to their Directors of Social Work. This stopped crusading social workers from starting mass-abuse cases based on hysteria. Obviously today that rule has been forgotten!

In the Ayrshire case eight people were charged with sexual offences against children which police said had occurred over a period of six years between 1995 and 2001. The national and international press went wild with claims of ritual abuse and Satanic ceremonies, yet again trotting out the false claims of believers in SRA in RAINS.

Once the details began to be revealed in the media a nationwide uproar ensured. The Western Isles police and social services soon began to tone down their SRA claims and avoided using the Satan word. Then in July 2004 the Crown abruptly dropped ALL charges against ALL those arrested and ruled that no further action would be taken. There was NO Satanic Abuse in the Ayrshire case and no kids were ever abused in any way.

The Crown dropped all charges - there was no Satanic Abuse involved in the Ayrshire case

Are you, dear reader, beginning to get the gist of how this myth prospers yet? Can you see the direct parallels with the Glasgow case trial yet?

ANOTHER official inquiry was set up into what had gone wrong in social work with these interminable false claims of SRA. It was headed by Alexis Jay (later renowned for her discovery of 10,000 victims of Asian Gang Rapes in Rotherham; and subsequently made head of the government's six-year long mega-Inquiry into Historic Abuse of Children and Adults - IICSA). Jay's Isle of Lewis case report was published in August 2005 and was a very strange affair as the 170 page report did not mention Satanism at all,
it did not use any ritual or occult terminology,
it did not mention ceremonies or Witches once; as though that mad belief which had lain behind the original hysterical police reaction, had not ever occurred.
The report ran to 55,000 words but there was only one single unqualified mention of 'rituals' quickly passed over as an aside in paragraph 304.

Even more mysteriously the report was not titled 'An investigation into allegations of Satanic Abuse in the Isle of Lewis 2003' as one might expect, but rather someone chose to use the Gaelic name of Eilean Siar instead. The title of the report became: '

An inspection into the care and protection of children in Eilean Siar'

A moniker guaranteed to have the report mouldering in the archives and lost to public and historical attention forever! Is it not amazing how these Satan hunters rush headlong into these cases shouting loudly and seeking the smallest insinuation of Satanism to 'confirm' their worst fears and then go public with horrendously sensational claims about SRA, yet, when they are proved to have abdicated their professional responsibility to the children and the parents, they simply fade away into the background quietly, like ghosts blending back into the Scottish mist.

But they didn't get away entirely scott free. The press were unreservedly critical of the whole investigation, the police operation and the report itself. The best overview of 'yet another Orkney' which the authorities in Scotland had promised you would NEVER happen, was by award winning journalist Rosie Waterhouse in her article in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/ society/2004/jul/16/childprotection , which has a blow by blow account of the errors the police and social services made. And, as if we needed a postscript on the lunacy of Ayrshire social services, less than a year later the 'SRA victim' at the centre of the allegations just up and admitted that she had lied all along!

In 2006 the main female witness in the Isle of Lewis case, who had been believed utterly by social services and the police admitted she had made up all the Satanic false allegations against the accused. None of it had ever happened.

The parents who were falsely accused could easily have gone to prison for a 'life' sentence and it was only luck that they didn't.

Surely THIS was the last straw which would finally terminate the Satan Myth in Scotland?

NOPE! Read on...

The people who run Edinburgh and Dundee universities allowed their courses to be infected with false allegations of 'ritual abuse' and a host of unfacts so that students on social work courses would be tainted with the Satanic Abuse lies for the future.

Did you know that 1650 Residents of Edinburgh have been Satanically abused?

Are Edinburgh university students actually being taught that 1650 citizens in Edinburgh have been Satanically Abused (double click on the image left to get a large version to read).

Clearly NO inhabitants of Edinburgh have ever been Satanically Abused. Edinburgh university has allowed this unfact ( an insult to the city's inhabitants) to continue without censure or correction. Note that when the SAFF informed Edinburgh University of this fact they simply ignored us as though it didn't matter. Maybe the Truth does not matter to this educational institution? They even made key players in promoting the idea of Satanic Ritual Abuse in Scotland their go-to 'experts' for local press and social services!

Microwaved Babies, Again.

The Microwaved Baby rumour actually began in the 1960s. Snopes covers it here , and it started as a moral tale on the dangers of drug usage. Astonishingly more recently there has been a case where a baby was killed in an oven (not a microwave, see clipping on the right) but this was nothing whatsoever to do with Satanists or Witches or the occult.

SAFF researches show that there have also been several instances of microwaved pets. In 2013 a thirteen year old girl microwaved to death her pet hamster in front of a group of friends. She told her parents it had died of natural causes and buried it in the back garden. She was later overheard bragging about it. The RSPCA found out and she ended up in court here. One would hope that this girl is now under social services watch as she may or may not make a good parent in future! Whatever, the girl was NOT a Satanist and no Satanists or Witches have ever microwaved pets or babies. It is not a required part of their liturgy. Witches and Satanists DO NOT sacrifice living things, they are animal lovers like everyone else.


In the 2023 Glasgow SRA case this microwave meme has been modified, the indictment says that children were 'put inside' a microwave oven. The 'experts' are so obsessed with their 'satanic significators' that they didn't see how foolish what they were saying is. There are no microwave ovens big enough to trap an 8 year old child inside yet they insist on making this one of the official charges in court. Why? Is it because microwaves were a key significator in the 1990 Satanic Panic which has been carried over as a given by the clique of Satan Hunters? Are people connected with those who created the demonology of the 1990 panic reasserting their nonsense in this case by repeating earlier claims, the source of which has been forgotten? SAFF think so. In the press-briefing Police Scotland held following the trial verdict Detective Inspector Nicola Kilbane said:

Since the investigation began we worked closely with a range of partners in social work , health, education, Crown Office, and Third Sector to protect and support the victims. ... there was well over 1,000 lines of inquiry progressed by the investigation team using all available resources but we could not have done it by ourselves and it has taken us working alongside our partners in Social Work, Health, Education and the Third Sector to be able to do so.

In other-words many groups involved in child-protection, in both the professions, and the voluntary sector had input. For those unfamiliar with the term 'third sector':

You may have heard other terms used to describe organisations [ now collectively known as the Third Sector ] – the voluntary sector, non-governmental organisations, non-profit organisations – charities, support groups,

Presumably any person or any group which claimed to have expertise in the facets of the Glasgow SRA case. Which would of course include those groups and individuals who claim to have insider knowledge about Satanic Ritual Abuse.

This apparently included a man and his wife, both church-workers , who questioned the children about Satanism and Witchcraft numerous times. This Man gave evidence in court the day before all the Witchcraft charges were dropped. This is how his testimony was reported in BBC News on line.

'The children were said to have made allegations to a man who took notes and then sent them to police and social workers. The man said he had got to know the children through his work and church and often saw them with his wife.
The girl, who would have been of pre-school age at the time of the alleged abuse, is one of a number of complainers who are aged under 13.
She was alleged to have said in her statement to the man: "I didn't like it when all the witches pointed their wands at me." The older alleged victims said there was a large group of witches and wizards in a room who put a spell on the girl every day to make her a different animal.
The older children were also alleged to have told the man that the group referred to as "the coven" killed dogs in front of them and got them to stab the dogs themselves.
It was further alleged that the group had a ouija board that was used to talk to dead people and spirits.

Under cross examination the man agreed with a lawyer for one of the accused that he had not heard a whisper about abuse and witchcraft in the considerable time he had known the children before these allegations were said to have been made.

The SRA allegations appear to have started in 2021 a year after the perpetrators were arrested. The bulk of the accusations relating to SRA seem to have come from one teenage boy.

A boy told a police officer that he ate a heart, drank blood and killed a budgie, a witchcraft and child sex abuse trial has heard.

"The child made the claims to detective constable Brian Hamilton when quizzed by police in December 2021 in a series of 15 interviews and stated that he and fellow 'wizards' passed around and consumed the heart and a wine glass of blood while in a circle. He earlier told the officer that he was held under a bath of blood and killed a budgie as part of an initiation to become a wizard.

The boy claimed he then received a wand which he and the other wizards later used to cast a 'spell' on a young girl. The group also contacted demons, spirits and a 'beast with horns on their head' using a Ouija board when he was aged between seven and nine, the boy claimed.

He stated that he was aged six or seven when he was submerged in a bath of blood. The boy said: 'I was just held under the bath, I just remember seeing it and it was all blood. I remember going in but I don't remember what happened.

'I just remember being drowned, I feel like I nearly drowned when this was happening. 'That's why they put me in the bath of blood and to kill the budgie - it was like an initiation. 'One of them said one day everyone will be doing witchcraft. Everyone said that I was a wizard.'

The boy recalled killing a budgie with a knife either on the same day as the bath incident or a later date. He said: 'I just remember someone holding it and me having to kill it - sometimes I still get nightmares about it.

DC Hamilton asked the boy who gave him the knife and he replied: 'I don't know. The boy later said: 'They day I killed the budgie, they gave me a wand...it was like a brown stick made of wood.' He went on to tell the officer that he and the wizards would gather in a circle to eat a heart and drink blood. The boy said: 'People would pass it around and have a bit and pass it on to the next person...that's when I took it. I had a bit of the heart and took blood.' He stated that the blood was in a 'special wine glass' with a 'special rim'.

He stated demons named Henrik, Fredrick, George, Molly and Dark Wyat attached themselves to particular people. He said: 'They would just talk to us, at the time I enjoyed it but now I'm frightened of it.' He added that the group and the demons sometimes spoke in English but different languages as well.

The boy recalled the group wearing cloaks 'down to their knees' and that he and the wizards lined up and cast a spell on a young girl aged around two or three to turn her into a wolf cub." [Source: BBC online. 12 Sept. 2023.]

Of course this testimony appears fantastic because it is fantasy.

1. The average bath holds about 150 litres or 260 pints (sufficient to immerse a child as was claimed). The average human body contains about 8 pints of blood, thus to fill a bath the accused would have needed to sacrifice and dispose of THIRTY TWO adult victims or around SIXTY children! It is just farcical that the police would even consider this statement anything other than fantasy.

2. There are no demons in occult terminology with the names Fredrick, George, Molly and Dark Wyat - he simply made them up. (viz: Dictonary of Devils, Demons and Demonologists (Fred Gettings) 1988. Et al)

3. Entities evoked through a Ouija Board do not turn up and talk to those present. They communicate through the Ouija Board which spells out what they are saying. That is why a Ouija Board is used. To believe the child's Ouija-Board testimony we would need to also believe that discarnate entities exist and can transmogrify themselves into physical reality, because that is what the boy is saying he experienced. Clearly fantasy.

4. For blood to be drinkable it must be consumed immediately after the kill, before it clots, which takes place within minutes. Raw hearts are 90% muscle and impossible to chew, they would have to be cooked first at the very least. The claim is contradictory and largely impossible. Why did Police Scotland simply accept it?

5. Where did the 'witches' gather to drink blood and eat hearts? Did the police not ask? Did they not check for forensic evidence at that location? Did the boy not say? Was he asked?

6. The ancient Satanic rite of Sacrificing a Budgie simply doesn't exist. It is quite possible that these depraved people may have forced the kids to kill animals in some way but it wasn't part of an occult ceremony.

7. Where is the chalice with a 'special rim'? How is it special?
Where is the knife he killed the budgie with? What happened to it?
Where is the wooden wand?
Where is the Ouija Board?
Where are the knee length cloaks?
Where was the bath full of blood located - were forensic samples taken from the bath to confirm it?
What did the alleged perpetrators do with the remains of the heart and blood and the bodies of the many victims?
Where did the coven meet in a circle? Has that location been forensically checked by police?
Where is the girl who was turned into a wolf cub? If she can't be found to corroborate it then where is the wolf cub?

There is not a single piece of forensic evidence to support these occult claims. That is why the Prosecution dropped all references to the occult, Satanism and Witchcraft on 13th October 2023. it is the usual nonsense a child fantasises about what they think Witches do. If SAFF investigators could talk to him for 30 minutes we would be able to discover exactly which scenes from the Harry Potter films he had regurgitated. The truth is that Witches do not do anything of the kind suggested by this boy's testimony. But there are plenty of examples in SAFF annals of the flights of fancy of small children being used in court in false cases of SRA. It is in fact a given.

In the classic book Wrongful Imprisonment: Mistaken Convictions and Their Consequences. by Brandon and Davies, ( an academic review of ambiguities in the law which generate injustices ), there is a chapter on Witnesses, Credible and Incredible which touches on the difficulties of child testimony in court. Parallel to the rise of claims of SRA (and often driven by clamour from believers in it) changes have been made to the way that children and women give evidence to avoid them having to stand in the witness box and be cross-examined. As Alisdair Palmer predicted in the Sunday Telegraph 13 February 2000 during another law change which disadvantaged the falsely accused:

The lawyers who piloted this change, Like the psychiatrists and social workers who lobbied for it,argued the goal of punishing real child-abusers justified the risk - it is in fact a certainty - of punishing a number of imaginary ones. But relaxing the rules of evidence sets an alarming precedent. If those who believe in satanic abuse get their way, the law will eventually be changed to make uncorroborated testimony sufficient for conviction. That is why we should be deeply alarmed..."

And of course that is exactly what has happened. There has been a steady rise in the number of people sent to prison for the abuse of children which parallels the rise in the number of appeals from the wrongfully imprisoned. Alisdair Palmer's full article, along with a section from Wrongful Imprisonment is at the foot of the rightmost column. Mark our words. We are not in any way saying that these children in the Glasgow case were lying about their abuse. They were however, clearly dissembling about the Satanic Ritual Abuse content.

The Dangers of Believing The Children

It is one thing for police to react sympathetically to a situation when a very young child says 'Father Kelly made me play with his tail'. Which is a possible crime where there may be no other witnesses and no chance of any real forensic evidence. It is quite another thing when that child relates a confused tale about being put in a bath of blood, by a ring of abusers in robes who raped the child , made the child sacrifice an animal with a special knife, made to drink blood from a special chalice and then made to kill babies whilst it was all filmed but in which NO forensic evidence is found to support any of it. The trail of forensic evidence after crimes of that kind would be immense.

As Special Agent Kenneth Lanning wrote in his definitive FBI report on the 1990 Satanic Panic:

Not only are no bodies found, but also, more importantly, there is no physical evidence that a murder took place. Many of those not in law enforcement do not understand that, while it is possible to get rid of a body, it is even more difficult to get rid of the physical evidence that a murder took place, especially a human sacrifice involving sex, blood, and mutilation. Such activity would leave behind trace evidence that could be found using modern crime scene processing techniques in spite of extraordinary efforts to clean it up.[Investigators guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse, National Center For the Analysis of Violent Crime, Quantico, Virginia.]

Thus insisting that we must 'believe the children' when claims of SRA are wheedled out of small children by crusading social workers is a superfluous argument if professional policing is used to discover forensic evidence. The lack of forensic evidence in all and every instance of such cases, including the Glasgow case, is a clear warning sign.

Back to Microwave Ovens

The failed Glasgow SRA case was not the first SRA case which included claims of putting children in microwaves. The first such allegations began in 1988 in the U.S. and were neatly imported from there into the first British Satan Seminar for social workers in Dundee in late 1988.

Robert Kelly, owned the Little Rascals daycare centre (nursery). He was falsely accused in the usual hysteria which SRA hunters love to create. The claims were again nonsensical. After continued questioning by SRA hunting social workers the little children claimed to have been 'put inside' a microwave oven. Again, nobody questioned whether you could get a 3 or 4 year old child into a microwave oven. Most microwave ovens can't even hold a Turkey. The incongruity of what the kids were saying ( the children's testimony said they had been taken out afterwards and had not been killed, so could tell their story) was brushed aside also.

Eventually, like all the other cases, the Little Rascals SRA case fell through and Robert Kelly was thoroughly exonerated of all charges. Robert Kelly was not a Satanist, nor was he a Witch. The SRA hunters had yet again failed to establish their nightmare mind-set, but fears of microwave-ovens became a part of the demonology of SRA, and were brought into Britain in 1988, even though complete fiction. Here we 37 years later and they pop up again in the Glasgow SRA trial in 2023. They were one of the main allegations in the indictments related to Satanism and Witchcraft. The microwave-oven claims made extensive headlines across the UK. But they are still being repeated by the press in relation to the Glasgow trial on the 13 October 2023.

What Other inconsistencies appear in the Glasgow Trial indictment?

The court indictment, as reported by the news agencies, reveals some very strange statements. This, for instance:

"All eleven are accused of forcing children to participate in seances and use an ouija board or similar object to “call on spirits and demons”, at various addresses in the Glasgow area" (The Independent, 5 September 2023)

Why was this indictment included?
Playing with Ouija-Boards may be highly inappropriate for children but is not illegal and neither is trying to make contact with the spirit world which happens every Sunday in church.
What are we supposed to take from this statement?
What is the Prosecution trying to tell us?
Is it being implied that seances and calling up spirits is a form of child-abuse?
If that is the case, then be careful Judge, there are literally thousands of Christian Baptist churches and plenty of Muslim preachers who include children in exorcism ceremonies to drive 'demons' from them.
You can see it happening in this clip on the SAFF's Youtube channel here.

Will these thousands of good Christians be dragged into Scottish courts for 'forcing their children to participate in seances and use a ouija board'? We think not!

All Christian spiritualist churches hold seances virtually every time they meet, it is a component part of their religious service. The 2021 Census noted that there are over 33,000 Christian spiritualists in Britain.
Is the court denying these people their religious rights?
Is it indicating that they cannot pass their religious beliefs onto their offspring because the court has redefined it as a form of child-abuse?
If so it would directly conflict with parental rights under the British Human Rights Act 2000 and would interfere with almost all other extant religions as well.
There would be uproar and protests if they even tried it.

What this part of the indictment reveals to us here at the SAFF is an inherent bigotry and prejudice in the thinking behind this trial.

Witchcraft is as Witchcraft does?

Another strange inconsistency was in the very dangerous confusion in the indictments between the religion of Witchcraft and the religion of Satanism, which could not have done anything other than confuse the jury and corrupt its conclusions. Here's just one example from the indictment:

'Children were forced to take part in witchcraft and seances, and were sexually assaulted while members of a satanic child abuse ring watched, a court has heard.

In other words it is insisting that Witchcraft and Seances are a component part of Satanism.
Other headlines said that the Witches 'chanted and laughed' as they raped the children.
That meme caused much hatred in the population as is shown in the Tweets and comments on social media. As we have shown, the terms Witchcraft and Satanism were used by the court interchangeably but this is a factually incorrect error which occurs in other parts of the indictment too

Witchcraft and Satanism are not the same thing.

The truth is that Witchcraft (Paganism) and Satanism are two completely different things and could not co-exist in one group, as is being implied in court. The SAFF has been telling the courts and the police this for 35 years but they just don't listen.

Paganism is the State Religion of Iceland and Paganism is recognised around the world where indigenous pagan beliefs are protected. From the Saami of Norway, Sweden and Finland to the Aboriginal / Torres Straight Islanders of the antipodes, the tribes of the Amazon basin etc.

Decades ago the SAFF undertook detailed work with the United Nations Association raporteur on Religion and Belief and obtained a confirmation that a belief in European Witchcraft / Paganism is a valid religion under the meaning of that word. The religious rights of Pagans / Witches are recognised in the U.S. and many other countries and covered by the British Human Rights Act 2000.

Witchcraft / Paganism is the original religion of mankind and has been represented across the globe. It is recognised by the United Nations as such and accepted as a genuine religion in many countries.
Witchcraft/Paganism has nothing to do with the Christian idea of a 'Devil'.

There is no Devil figure in Pagan / Witchcraft cosmology.

Witches do not 'worship the devil'

Most Witches actually decry Satanism for it is seen by many of them as a corrupted form of Christianity dependent entirely upon Christian beliefs. Remember that Paganism predated Christianity by at least 10,000 years (viz: Gobekli Tepi Temple) before the inauguration of the Christian Religion and ALL areas of the world had pagan civilisations before Christian ones . In short to be a Satanist you must perforce be a lapsed Christian. It is the Christians' idea of a Devil which Satanists are supposed to worship.

Witches do not need to attack, undermine, besmirch or ridicule anyone else's beliefs as theirs are far more established going back into prehistory. All other religious beliefs evolved from Paganism and many Christian legends and symbols were taken from Paganism, along with Pagan Holy Days and festivals, renamed to suit the Saints. Witches therefore do not conflict with the Christian church, it is the Christian church which has a history of conflicting with Witches/Pagans to silence and suppress dissenters.

Witches do not employ Ouija-Boards which are a 19c invention from the Seance Craze of Victorian times. Many witches actually decry the impromptu use of Ouija boards for technical reasons.
Witches are certainly NOT Satanists.
Witches and Satanists do not work together.
Often there is enmity between them caused by such differing philosophies.

Satanists on the other hand are mostly hedonistic atheists who see all religion as an opium of the masses which perpetuates the kind of ignorance which appears in this indictment, to wit; misunderstandings and errors which disable humans from reaching their full potential. Satanists may decry both Christianity AND Witchcraft just like other atheists do which is why Witches and Satanists cannot and do not work together. Satanists do not have a belief in 'spirits' (they are atheists remember) so they do not use ouija-boards either. Whichever way you look at it the Court was mislead.

So who then is the indictment talking about?
Is it saying that the accused are Witches or is it saying they are Satanists?
Is it saying that they were pretending to be Witches or / and Satanists?
What 'ouija board' did they use? Where is it?
What 'rituals' is the indictment referring to? It cannot be one in which both Satanists and Witches participated, as it claims, for as we have just shown there is no such ceremony ever recorded.

These are crucial matters which could interfere with the course of justice. It smells bad to us and this was again confirmed when on 13th October 2023 the Judge threw out the claims of rape in Witchcraft and Satanic ceremonies because there was absolutely no supporting evidence of it.

Are the accused Witches?
Are the accused Satanists?

In fact it appears that none of the defendants have actually been formally named as BEING Satanists or Witches. If none of them have claimed to be a Witch or a Satanist why is both Witchcraft and Satanism being dragged into the trial?

We hoped their defence would make it clear by asking them formally in court whether they are, or are not, Witches or Satanists, instead of the court simply accusing them of it based on the fantasies of witnesses. However that was not done because the prosecution withdrew those Witchcraft / Satanic allegations before they could be cross-examined.

As the trial progressed it became clear that the prosecution could not portray the accused as Witches OR Satanists because they simply were not Witches or Satanists, and this part of the indictment was also dropped by the Prosecution on the 13th October 2032.

SENTENCING:
This trial was protracted.
2012 - 2019: The offences, against three children, occurred.
March 2020: Police Investigation ( Operation Woodwhite ), begins.
03 Jan 2023: The First hearing to set a trial for Sept 2023.
05 Sep 2023: Trial Starts at Glasgow High Court. All the defendants denied the charges.
14 Nov 2023 Trial ends. 11 accused Found guilty, 3 other people, two men and a woman, were acquitted.
09 Jan 2024: Sentencing was deferred by Lord Beckett for risk assessments.
27 Jan 2025: Sentencing concluded
Owens: He was jailed for 20 years
Lannery: She was jailed for 17 years
Brannan: He was guilty of attempted murder, sexual assault, rape, class A drugs; got 15 years.
Williams: She was guilty of attempted murder, assault, rape, supplying drugs: given 14 years.
Clark: He was found guilty of rape and sexual assault and given 10 years,
Watson: He was found guilty of rape and sexual assault, was given nine years and six months
Forbes: He was found guilty of rape and got eight years.

And then at the bottom of this BBC Article we see a perfunctory:

'Charges related to causing the children to take part in seances and witchcraft were dropped during the two-month trial'.

Big change from the BBC's earlier gung-ho headlines which helped cause a wave of revulsion against innocent believers in Paganism in Scotland.

There was no Witchcraft or Satanism involved in the Glasgow trial.
It had nothing whatsoever to do with witchcraft, paganism, Satanism or any occult method or belief .
There were no 'wands' brandished.
There were no baths of blood,
There were no hearts eaten.

Yet how many of those lying headlines which peppered the British media at the start of the trial will reside in the memories of mad social workers, fundamentalist agitators and SRA vigilantes to be evoked again the next time someone in the British Media cannot resist writing a lubricious headline? The conspiracyloons will snarl at the result of the Trial, they will nod at each other' ; 'It's happened again' they will say, 'another SRA cover-up!'

And go blithely on acting as though the Glasgow case really was a case of Satanic Abuse after all, writing their books on Satanic Abuse and quoting the false claims in the Glasgow case as though somehow they add proof to the weight of evidence showing that SRA exists. They will attend Satan Seminars and mention it as the 'latest' proof, and they will persist in publishing fake news about SRA on the internet from the wicked mind of 'someone who knew the brother of man who was the cousin of a schoolmate of one of the victims' who will insist that the Judge was corrupt, and that the police were all Freemasons! That is what this kind of reporting gets you - 36 years of delusion and unfact which has tortured thousands of innocent men, women and children. A slow-burn witch-hunt spanning 36 years.


The indictments in the Glasgow case were read out in court and reported thus

It is alleged one of the girls was shut in a microwave in an attempt to kill her. (Daily Record)

How did this statement get into the court papers without anyone actually realising it was false? There is no microwave in existence big enough to contain a 10 year girl! As five of the defendants are indicted on charges of attempted murder ( which may very well rest on this claim ), the truth behind this statement is crucial to understanding the kind of evidence being accepted at face-value by the team bringing the case to court, and it doesn't look good.

Was the Satanic / Witchcraft content of this trial worked-up by superstitious cretins which the authorities simply repeated, or was it a cynical attempt to sway the jury with ancient stereotypes? Could it be interference in the process of justice from the clique of Satan-Hunters who now populate Scotland? The following may help you decide;

Videos, Videos everywhere and not a one to see

During the trial it was stated that the victims were made to film their abuse or that various accused had filmed the abuse.

'The women are accused of watching the abuse, with the indictment adding that they did “clap, cheer and verbally encourage” the abuse, with some filming the attack.' (Independent)

'Another child was allegedly raped within the same time period, with the group accused of filming it.'(Times 5 Sept. 2023)

'Owens and Brannan go on to face an accusation of raping the boy. The duo along with Lannery and Williams are also said to have made him watch a video of one of the girls being attacked.' (Daily Record)

Clearly if the prosecution actually had a single one of these films the accused would have been caught red-handed, yet they have all pleaded not-guilty. In short, as with many earlier cases of SRA, claims of filmed abuse were central yet came to nothing. In all earlier cases there never were any films found to back up what the SRA victims claimed. It appears there are none in this trial either.

The idea of perpetrators filming the abuse of their victims and then selling the films into the porn industry was a prejudiced assumption first made in 1988 when the fundamentalist activists who started the Satanic Panic began pretending to have inside information and were subsequently allowed to present fictional 'criminal profiles' of supposed Satanic Abusers to police forces in the UK in what amounted to highly prejudiced and unconfirmed conjecture based on ecclesiastical records which depicted confessions gained under torture during the 15c and 16c Witch-trials which disgraced Europe. NOT ONE OF THEIR CLAIMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE.

The first mention of Satanic Snuff Movies was in early 1988 in a keynote speech given by The Reachout Trust in Britain's first Satan Seminar in Dundee which infected local churches and social workers and police. The similarities with the guff eventually thrown out of the Glasgow case on 13th September is amazing. Back in 1988 the Reachout Trust baldly stated:

'After the sacrifice they take out the heart, spleen, and. eyes and eat them. The children are also taught how to remove these parts of the body. The children state how bodies are chopped up. What is not eaten of the foetus is stored. Some of the bodies are melted down. The fat is used for candles and the bones are ground down and the powder is used as an aphrodisiac. What I have reported so far is only a partial picture. I know that there are other types of rituals which I have not mentioned. From our information a lot of these rituals are videoed by the people involved.' Maureen Davies, Director Reachout Trust, 'Satanic Ritual Abuse' lecture, 1988.

Presumably Reachout's director, Maureen Davies, was doling out similar untruths to attendees at the other Aberdeen and Dundee Satan Seminars held in the early 1990s? To see how irrational these claims, which were based solely on the manic testimony of mentally ill patients who fell into the hands of Reachout and who gleefully confirmed what Reachout wanted to hear, please view the five minute clip of Maureen Davies being interviewed on camera by Martin Bashir for BBC's Panorama special on Satanic Abuse, in December 1992 in which Davies' 'expertise' about Satanic Abuse ( which had for 3 years previously underpinned and encouraged a belief in SRA throughout the police and social services ) evaporate like the smoke and mirrors it really was, under a few minutes of direct questioning. (

- clip starts 33.00 minutes in. )

In the intervening 35 years which has covered over 80 cases of claimed SRA there has not been one film, photo, recording or tape ever found which backed up these claims. Despite hundreds of cases here and overseas, film of 'Satanic Abuse' has never been discovered, but see how utterly false claims of 'eating hearts' has also made its way through from 1988 to impinge upon the Glasgow SRA trial in 2023!

So adamant were these earlier Satan Hunters that Satanists must have filmed their rituals that they hoaxed the entire population of Great Britain, in February 1992 ,when a group of them headed by fundamentalist agitator Andrew Boyd persuaded Channel 4 Television to broadcast what was billed ( with nationwide press fanfare) as 'an actual film of satanic abuse happening' in an hour long documentary, which included an interview with a woman, Jennifer, who claimed to be a previous member of the cult who claimed that they had made her kill her own baby!

The public uproar at this 'evidence of SRA' lasted for a few hours until the SAFF found the original recording and proved that it was a performance art video by a well-known rock-group, on open sale and given an 18 rating by the BBFC in which various avant garde celebrities took part. The producers of the documentary had lied. It was NOT a film of actual Satanic Abuse and proved nothing of the kind.

By this time Scotland Yard had been stampeded into busting the rock-group's headquarters and took away tons of music videos and other documents. They found absolutely NO SRA videos or illegal videos of any kind and no charges followed. It was all fundamentalist generated hysteria.

Furthermore the woman 'informer' who claimed to have killed her own baby turned out to be a confused mentally fragile individual who had been indoctrinated with the 'baby killing' idea during Recovered Memory therapy at a Christian healing seminary which had been heavily involved in pushing SRA at the time (a representative of this group - Ellel Grange - was actually invited to speak at Reachout's Dundee SRA Seminar in 1988! See http://saff.nfshost.com/devilvid.htm. for the full story.

Getting the picture yet? The words 'Police', 'Lead' and Nose' come to mind.

The fact is, there has never been a film recovered in any case where Satanic Ritual Abuse had been claimed during the 35 years the myth has been ongoing.

Even so the 'satanists filmed their abuse' meme was given a new spin in 2014 when two groups of Satan Hunters in Scotland, one of which had direct links to the 1990 Satanic Panic, drummed up shocking publicity by claiming children were being killed in Satanic snuff movies. Despite decades of failed claims about Snuff movies which many ordinary folk think just MUST have happened somewhere, the facts are that it is an apocryphal rumour which has no basis in fact. Here, Snopes takes the unfact apart in detail. There have never been any Satanic Snuff Movies.

Note that the Scottish child charities pushing the Snuff Movie unfact, ( Izzy's Promise and Break The Silence ) used the same memes that had earlier been presented to police and government back in the 1990 Satanic Panic (and were proven false way back then, but which have since become part of 'the demonology' of SRA within Satan Hunter circles ). Unbelievably, people running the Scottish police and government agencies quickly fell for those Satanic Snuff Movie lies again in 2014! Just how foolish is Police Scotland? The obsessed SRA-hunters shout 'jump' and Police Scotland respond by asking 'how high?'. The SRA obsessives have done it a zillion times in 35 years and each time they come up with new twists to their manic claims the cops knee-jerk into action searching for phantoms.

The lie about Snuff Movies being involved in SRA cases (or any other cases for that matter) was given a hail of publicity in the 1990s when Ray Wyre, a key player in the promotion of SRA during the 1990 Satanic Panic, ( see Broxtowe.htm ) and a close colleague of Tim Tate, producer of the Cook Report, was quoted in an article as saying he had personally witnessed a child killed in a Snuff Movie. This was sensational! However when Wyre was challenged about this he retracted saying that it was a movie which simulated a murder

When contacted about the possibility of Snuff Movies (Satanic or otherwise) both the FBI and Scotland Yard said Snuff Movies did not exist. You can decide for yourself how much the irresponsible British Media perpetuates untruths of this kind about SRA by looking again at the Daily Express's despicable report above, and estimate for yourself the total amount of police resources which were squandered on this issue in the UK over the past three decades. It runs into tens of millions of pounds, most of it wasted in Scotland with the £6 MILLION cost of the Lord Clyde Public Inquiry to tidy up the unnecessary Orkney SRA case which was a travesty of Police and Social Service malpractice.

Wyre's glib original insistence that he had watched a child being killed in a snuff movie, which he later retracted when challenged, can be compared with his 1989 interview on Australia's 'Sixty Minutes' series about early Claims of Satanic Abuse. Whilst somewhat more careful of his pronouncements in the UK, once in Australia he clearly told millions of Aussies that Satanists were torturing and killing kids in Australia when he had absolutely no factual evidence that this was the case in Australia or anywhere else in the world.

You can see how Wyre also lies about the Broxtowe case and includes the '21 cases' which featured in the Cook Report's The Devil's Work, (for which he acted as an advisor). See him look straight into the camera and lie. You can view this clip from Sixty Minutes here: Servants of Satan. Wyre is a lying toad yet is billed by Sixty Minutes as the world's most experienced expert on Satanic Ritual Child Abuse! Really? Not in our neck of the woods he isn't.

By the way, Theresa, a self-proclaimed SRA victim, who was also interviewed by Sixty Minutes ended up giving evidence in court at the Old Bailey in London a month before this Oz programme was broadcast. After three days in court the judge threw the case out and exonerated the people she had falsely accused of Satanic Abuse. Some people make good liars and some people lie for God. Wyre had completed a course at Baptist Bible College before he jumped on the SRA bandwagon.

After the hysteria of the Satanic Panic of the 1990s had faded, Ray Wyre moved from being a child-protection professional to being a professional poker player. Apparently he was very good at bluffing. From Bible thumper to Satanic Abuse Expert to Gambler. What a life trajectory! If you want to see just how the Satanic Panic in the UK was exported to Australia and New Zealand then this well-researched history of the scare from the Australian side, gives a blow-by-blow account and you will find that 90% of the people who 'discovered SRA' in Australia were the same ones who foisted it on Britain! History of SRA in Australia and New Zealand

These two organisations who began pushing rumours of Snuff Movies in 2014, ( Izzy's Promise and Break The Silence ), are contributors to the Scottish government on child-protection! One of them Break The Silence has a delegate who sits on the Holyrood Committee on Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. I wonder what she's telling them?

The Daily Express (which has a long-running campaign to hype and sensationalise tall tales of Satanic Ritual Abuse and is always ready to print any old headline-grabbing tosh) questioned Police Scotland about the snuff movies. Police Scotland said they are taking the claims seriously. See how these unrepresentative groups can manipulate the police and judiciary with unfact?

Today, a decade on from those 2014 snuff movie claims, it can be seen that there were of course NO films and NO snuff movies and NO children at risk despite what these two groups said in 2014.

Izzy's Promise and Break The Silence have not produced a single piece of evidence to back up their claims but got full page headlines for them in a national newspaper anyway. Neither of them, to our knowledge, has apologised or qualified their false statements about SRA Snuff Movies.

It is interesting to see how easily these lies were seeded into the minds of cops at Police Scotland after having been completely discredited 35 years previously.
After the Ayreshire SRA Scandal
After the Orkney SRA Scandal.
After the government's 1994 report proving SRA did not exist.
After Lord Clyde's Public Inquiry which castigated believers in SRA in social work.
After the 194 rule changes.
After the terrible errors of the Isle of Lewis SRA case where the main witness admitted she lied.
And after every other police force in the UK had investigated claimed SRA cases and found them FALSE.

Here we are now a decade after the Daily Express printed what were at best paranoid fears on Snuff Movies and at the worst manipulative grifting, neither of those two organisations have been able to produce even one example of a Satanic Snuff Movie! https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/533158/Child-abusers-filmed-murder-claims-charity

And the salient point here is that neither of these groups have ever been challenged about those lies which tens of thousands of members of the public read and were horrified by. If you carefully read the false claims made in this ten year old Daily Express report you will astonishingly see an almost word for word rendition of what appears today in the indictment in the current Glasgow case. It is as though Police Scotland used it as a template!

Could it be possible that the drip, drip, of SRA propaganda from the coterie of Satan Hunters who have coalesced in Scotland around Dundee and Edinburgh and who have become a focus for Satan Hunters nationwide for their insistence that Satanic Ritual Child Abuse exists, has actually infected the Scottish Justice system with new tales of SRA? Were some of these Third Sector groups involved in Police Scotland's' 1000 lines of inquiry' over the the Glasgow SRA trial we wonder?

Izzy's Promise

Izzy's Promise is a registered charity and has been encouraged for decades by the Scottish Government. They began as an offshoot of the infamous RAINS group which was the prime mover behind ALL the early claimed cases of SRA in the UK from 1988 onwards. You can see more on the evil activities of RAINS and how they were behind the hysteria about Edward Heath being a Satanic Abuser, below and here: The Truth About the Westminster Satanic Abuse Ring

Laurie Matthews, the founder, set up a scion of RAINS to promote the idea of SRA in Scotland. She called it RANS (Ritual Abuse Network Scotland). Many Satanic Panic activists and groups were members of RAINS and RANS, the two were virtually indistinguishable networking points for Satan Hunters in the UK.

The SAFF exposed the workings of RANS back in 2002 ( http://saff.nfshost.com/rans.htm ) but such is the desire amongst the child-scare lobby to foster false ideas about Satanic Child abuse that they've done quite well since.

After a rename from RANS to Izzy's Promise the organisation apparently flourished. Below you will see a flyer for their 2020 Satan Seminar in Devil Town (Dundee) and it clearly illustrates the pyramid selling techniques that all these groups tend to use.

By promising to heal or help mentally disturbed people they proffer therapy and then also work to train the 'survivor network' of therapists and counsellors who therapise the self-identified victims of SRA. The demand is a self-fulfilling feedback loop.

People who are mentally-ill come in with or without tales of SRA, get therapised using recovered memory therapy ,which the NHS should ban, and many come out with false memories of Satanic Abuse.

These self-styled SRA victims are used as 'evidence' of the existence of SRA. After a while some of the victims turn to being trained in DID therapy themselves when they are trained to 'help' (i.e. seek out) other SRA 'victims' to draw into the cycle. It is a perfect exercise in paranoia.

How do the RAINS mob manage to work their SRA magic in plain sight? Well they disguise their satan-hunting behind the term 'Ritual Abuse'. When talking to 'straights' they hardly ever use the word 'Satanism', yet it is concomitant with all their claims.

Of course there is no such thing as 'Ritual Abuse' , the term means nothing and cannot be adequately defined in psychiatry. The compulsive washing of hands by people suffering from OCD could be termed 'a ritual' but repetitive actions like this are not the kind of Rituals the SRA hunters are talking about. They are talking of a pan-global network of Satanists who are supposed to ceremonially sadistically and sexually abuse children and then kill and eat them. They are just bonkers.

When you get right down to it, the activities of these people are very much like rolling Tent Crusades picking up converts to SRA as they go; and of course most of these groups are run by fundamentalist Christians to save souls. Why, some of these Third Sector groups even provide an on-line SRA self-identification form in which mentally imbalanced people can validate themselves as victims of SRA from the comfort of their own sofa! You can become a victim of Satanic Abuse in minutes on line, just tick the boxes!

Izzy's Promise's Yearly activity report to the Scottish Charity Commission for 2010 makes interesting reading:

This month has been one of the busiest this year with even more survivors dropping in for face-to-face support, phoning, emailing and texting for support and with more referrals from other support agencies. We sent out questionnaires and consultations to more than 700 abuse support organisations in the UK by post and email to make them aware of all the services we offer to ritual / organised abuse survivors. We provided consultancy services to 8 abuse support agencies via email and phone. Some of the agencies needed more information on how to support ritual / organised abuse survivors. We were approached by 2 agencies to deliver awareness training on how to support ritual abuse survivors. We have two upcoming training opportunities for people and organisations working with ritual/organised abuse survivors taking place on the 7th and 8th July 2010 www.izzyspromise.org.uk.

When they say 'provided consultancy services to abuse support agencies', they do not preclude local authority social work departments, child safeguarding departments, police and other official bodies. In short they have a direct line to confuse, corrupt and misdirect Scottish child care with unproven assumptions about SRA and mad claims about Snuff Movies.

I am sure that these do-gooders think they are doing something useful and helping people escape from some horror or other but history shows that crusading Satan Hunters in the past usually cause suffering to children and vulnerable adults not cure them.

As in the 1990 scare the foolish police and social services rarely seem to question what these groups say. They rarely ask anyone who does not believe in SRA what their take on the situation is. SRA therefore becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The claims of Satanic Abuse are as grotesque as can be; RANS even inferred that Satanists were sacrificing seals by shooting them in the seas around Orkney!

They made this claim at the height of the Orkney scandal, it was as if their intention was to 'confirm' the existence of abusing Satanists in Orkney and support the allegations in the Orkney Case which we all now know were utterly false in every respect.

Clearly anyone who knows about coastal communities realises that inshore fishermen HATE seals. There is a glut of them and they take all their catch, therefore, although illegal, the culling of seals by fishermen does occasionally happen and will be reported; but it has absolutely nothing to do with Satanists or Witches.

Claims of Satanic Animal Sacrifice are a perennial allegation in SRA circles. The SAFF discredited such claims many times with this research here: http://saff.nfshost.com/animals.htm

You can see more of the kind of stuff that Izzy's Promise have been doling out for decades, here: http://saff.nfshost.com/rans.htm but this what they said in the article:

“I recently spoke with a lady near here who couldn’t stop crying. She had been through it all and said she couldn’t live with the things she’d done. She was telling about everything that had happened to her, drugs, abuse, watching others being abused, sacrifices, animal sacrifices, being raped, being forced to conceive and then abort the child for sacrifice. At one point she says she may have killed a young child because she was forced to strangle the child. That’s the sort of power the perpetrators have on their victims.” Lumbasi, Izzy's Promise, Statement to the Daily Express 9 Nov 2014.

Er, excuse us but; that's the sort of power therapists have over mentally vulnerable women who come to them for help and instead have false memories pushed into their heads about non-existent Satanic crimes! These are the same false claims made by 'victims' during the 1990 Satanic Panic and which were completely discredited in every single case in the course of time. Word for Word.

Breeders and Killing Babies

The idea of sacrificing of aborted babies in Satanic ceremonies was imported directly from the U.S. where the SRA myth had established itself a year or two before it was imported from there into the UK's first Satan case, in Broxtowe, Nottingham in 1987.

In the US they called children whom they claimed had been impregnated to produce babies to abort and sacrifice as 'breeders'. It never ever happened either here or in the US. Satanic Child Abuse is of course a parable for anti-abortionists which demonises empowered women (witches) as evil and portrays non-Christian men who condone abortion as devil worshippers.

It is of course a parable for anti-abortionists which demonises empowered women (witches) as evil and portrays irreligious men as devil worshippers.

These people are stretching it to be continuing these lies in this day and age and the last thing the authorities should do is give any of them credence, yet they get tax breaks by being Scottish Charities. Trouble makers are always rewarded, it would seem. No matter how moronic what they say is, they always seem to end up being listened to. In the case of SRA it would appear nothing succeeds like excess.

Satanic Abuse will not die because believers like them keep stoking the flames.

Look at these activities in S.M.A.R.T.'s, Ritual Abuse Pages (see graphic to the right - double-click to open a large size version).

RANS, Izzy's Promise, from Devil Town Dundee and Sarah Nelson from Edinburgh University ( Remember her? '1650 people in Edinburgh have been satanically abused') appear alongside each other on S.M.A.R.T.'s website so all the world can see that Scotland is a hive of abusing Satanists, when it is nothing of the kind.

Or more accurately, Scotland has a clique of Satan Hunters who have claimed that Scotland is ridden with Satanic Abusers without ever having been able to produce even one example in 35 years of warning about it.

The Network of Carping Satan-Hunters in Scotland Have Spent 35 Years Warning About it Without Being Able to Produce a Single Example.

The Daily Express's hysterical piece on Snuff Movies and of Ritual killings in Scotland got a bad reception in academe. Within days Professor Chris French (the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at University of London and a specialist in false cases of SRA) disputed the whole idea and took it to task in the Guardian, suggesting the police were on another wild-goose-chase. Nine years later we all now know that he was right and Police Scotland were chasing phantoms. https://www. theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/18/satanic-child-abuse-false-memories-scotland

Hollie Greig: This is What Scotland Gets when it suffers evil Satan Hunters...

But this is not the first time Satan Hunters in Scotland began a hysterical scare that gave the Scottish Legal system the run-around. Another hiatus of Satan Hunting began in 2009 but it was hardly covered in the Scottish Press so the public are largely unaware of it. If you read what follows, you will be.

In 2012, after 3 years of vigilante attacks, self-appointed SRA crusader Robert Green was jailed for his part as leader of a campaign of lies and persecution which had created an Internet sensation by falsely accusing several judges and legal VIPs in Scotland of being part of a Satanic Paedophile Ring at a high level in the Scottish Justice system. Many thousands of Scottish conspiracyloons still believe in this cabal of Satanic abusers within the Scottish judiciary, discussing and reinforcing belief in it on the internet.

Robert Green's campaign concerned a Downs Syndrome girl (now an adult) called Hollie Greig, whose mother maintained, had claimed to have been abused in Satanic Rituals by 26 people. These completely false accusations occurred first in 2009 and also included the public doxing of several innocent members of Hollie Greig's extended family who were persecuted terribly on the internet and locally. The false claims about Hollie Greig were taken up by that conspiracyloon David Icke. He backed Green's campaign and brought thousands more SRA vigilantes into the mix.

Two extensive Police Scotland investigations into claims made by Hollie Greig's mother proved that there was no truth in them but the vicious Satan Hunters would not stop. This hiatus was ongoing at the same time as England was suffering it's own VIP abuse accusations which eventually lead to the investigation of the late prime-minister Edward Heath for Satanic murder. It concluded saying that nothing of the kind had ever occurred.

One of those at the top of the Scottish legal system who was falsely accused of being part of the VIP abuse ring cover-up, was Lord Advocate Elisha Angiolini. She was hounded on the internet to such degree by Green that she eventually sought a lifetime non-harassment order against him in 2012.

Green had falsely claimed Angiolini had covered up an "establishment paedophile ring" in Scotland. It followed the granting of similar non-harassment orders against Green given to 15 (fifteen) other people whom he and his campaign had vindictively and falsely persecuted for imagined Satanic Crimes on the internet by, for example, revealing the registration numbers and details of their vehicles so vigilantes could attack them, and the distribution of poisoned pen leaflets designed to drum up hatred against falsely accused people by posting them through the letter boxes of their neighbours to get them to turn on the falsely accused. Some of Green's victims, though completely innocent, were forced to move home. One had to close down his business.

You probably want to ask how did Green and this Mob get away with all this hateful activity but watching the authorities turn a blind-eye to dangerous false claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse is a constant occurrence throughout the last three decades. Their aloof arrogance in ignoring the pernicious affects on those falsely accused of SRA is why we have ended up still chasing the same phantoms 35 years later! The authorities seem to think it is beneath them to address this issue, as though anyone with any common-sense can see that these false accusers are nutters and not worth attention, yet isn't it just the same twisted fundamentalist psychological beliefs which have created terrorism across the Western world and how much time, effort and resources do the government, police and local authorities spend on that?

There are now hundreds of thousands of believers in Satanic Ritual Abuse in the UK and they network with each other very successfully on the internet. We have far more believers in SRA than we have people supporting Islamic Jihad yet it is still treated as a Cinderella subject.

The full story of Green's despicable actions and bigoted vigilantism is outlined here: https://www. heraldscotland.com/news/13062006.one-devastating-fantasy-impact-internet-scandal 'One Devastating Fantasy' written for the Scottish Herald by David Leask, was a masterful analysis of a complex run of events for which he is to be congratulated, however a crucial aspect is missing from it - Green's previously unrevealed connections with the coterie of activists who had started the 1990 Satanic Panic and Green's networking with RAINS and other SRA survivor groups behind all the earlier SRA cases which hit the headlines.

Only the SAFF could give you the full insight into this and here it is below:

The Helen G List [Also known as The RAINS List]

This long list of suspicions about VIPs who were imagined to be involved in a child-abuse ring at high levels in the British Establishment, came from RAINS director Joan Coleman. It outed famous people, MPs, Police Chiefs, Celebrities from the world of entertainment, and others in high-places based solely on fantasy, fiction, gossip, and guesswork.

Do you remember the controversy over TV celebrity abuse? The persecution of Cliff Richard, Paul Gambaccini, Jimmy Tarbuck, Jim Davidson, Coronation Street's William Roache, and many more? All of these people were falsely accused through rumour and false allegations during a time of hysteria about VIP abuse. Tarbuck was libelled in the Helen-G List long before the police investigated him and found him innocent.

The belief that there were hidden paedophile VIP rings at the heart of the British Establishment was old gossip going back to 1977 when a political group called PIE (Paedophilia Information Exchange) campaigned to reduce the age of consent for homosexuals and received local and government funding from the Home Office between 1977 and 1980. Of course pressure from the Gay lobby did eventually result in the dropping of the age of consent to 16 years later in 2001 but decades earlier PIE's attempts to do this ended up with very negative consquences. Some members of PIE were involved in the Westminster bubble, particularly linked to the Labour party. Then a package of child pornography was found on a London omnibus with links to PIE.

A detailed police investigation was inconclusive (left-wing political support for homosexual rights and membership of PIE was not evidence of being a paedophile) but Tom O'carroll, the organiser of PIE was successfully prosecuted. Ten people were arrested. Most of these were dealt with under their own names but unwisely, in an obvious attempt to avoid a scandal, a top diplomat and member of PIE, Sir Peter Hayman, was allowed to use a pseudonym to escape opprobrium.

Private Eye magazine was the first to expose this but the man was not named until 1981 when after an ongoing police inquiry it was leaked to Geoffrey Dickens MP, he named Hayman in parliament under parliamentary privilege (MPs can say anything they like in the chamber and are immune from being sued ) The resulting publicity was widespread and made Dickens something of a 'children's champion'.

Five years later Dickens 'outed' someone on the floor of the house a second time. This time, a doctor was alleged to have raped a child. The police investigated and found it untrue. Persisting, Dickens worked with the SUN newspaper who paid for a private prosecution of the doctor. The trial found the doctor completely innocent.

Unabashed, rent-a-quote Dickens moved into demanding that gay vicars be sacked and also, as an addendum, appealed for public hanging to be brought back! This typical Tory was a committed Christian and homophobic laypreacher. He then linked up with Childwatch, a Hull child-protection charity and in 1988 began a campaign to falsely accuse innocent people of being involved in the Satanic Ritual Abuse of children by fabricating unfacts in the house of commons yet again. He was directly responsible for the 1990 Satanic Panic. The full sorry story of Dickens' career in being the 'children's champion' is outlined here: http://saff.nfshost.com/dickens.htm

Some people thought the PIE issue had been covered up and that a cell of abusers were still active in Westminster. Nobody else was ever caught in the intervening two decades but this suspicion came back to haunt the government in the early 2000s when hysterical claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse were twinned with the earlier PIE suspicions and 'VIP Abuse' was invented.

In 2008 Coleman's Helen G list brought it all together again. Yet the list was in fact simply the outpourings of a single 'star victim imposter' called Helen G, a psychiatric patient of Coleman's, who had for a year or so previously enthralled Coleman with imagined Satanic Crimes at her therapy sessions. Helen G told Coleman exactly what she wanted to hear, that there was a large group of child abusers at the highest level of the State which had Satanic connections.

It was bunkum but since 1994 ,when the La Fontaine Report had totally undermined RAINS, Coleman had been trying to reclaim her reputation by insisting that SRA was a threat, because her patients claimed that it existed. Coleman seemed oblivious to the fact that many patients lie to please their therapists.

All Coleman's SRA cases had failed miserably in the course of time and her patients were proven to be either attention seeking liars or dippy middle-aged women with mental problems who had fantisised SRA stories under Recovered Memory therapy.

SAFF knew that Coleman was a foolish liar because later on she lied about us in print!

Following the La Fontaine report RAINS was on the back foot, but the Helen G list offered what they apparently saw as 'insider evidence' to confirm SRA. Coleman collated the Helen G List and without checking or testing any of it for factual accuracy, promptly distributed the list to other SRA therapists in the RAINS network. The SRA believing social workers and police who made up the 180 or so members of RAINS.

From there the Helen-G list soon got out into the wild and quickly ended up in the hands of 'survivor groups' who took the matter much further. They cross-contaminated wild stories of SRA across forums, blogs and survivor groups. The conglomeration of these tidbits in the minds of the Satan Hunters created a reservoir of what seemed like identical stories and memes which further agglomerated convincing, but wholly untrue, tales of Satanic Ritual Abuse.

It was the Helen G List which was behind the sensational false accusations against former prime minister Edward (Ted) Heath and a host of other Westminster VIPs of abusing and sacrificing children. Rehashed through the influential network of survivor-groups the list and the meme gained impetus and eventually the British government suckered in to it, for it formed a thread of the Governments £100 Million IICSA inquiry into historic abuse.

But VIP abuse was not new. The uproar over secret paedophile groups in the Elite of Society had first been floated in July 1993 from the meanderings of other mentally ill patients undergoing Recovered Memory therapy at the Jupiter Trust, run by GP Jim Phillips and his colleague Vera Diamond, a founder member of RAINS and another front-runner in pushing the false allgations of SRA at the time.

In this pre-internet version of the 'Elite Paedophiles conspiracy' Diamond's mad patients claimed that the Royal Family itself was involved in drinking the blood of babies. The front page of the Daily Sportnewspaper 16 July 1993 was the start of this meme which much later went on to just about destroy Prince Andrew when Virginia Guiffre made claims of under-age sex with him in 2014.

In November 2015 The IICSA inquiry into historic abuse commenced. It lasted six years and concluded in September 2021 by saying that there was no evidence of any abusing elite in Westminster.

'There was ample evidence that individual perpetrators of child sexual abuse were linked to Westminster but, despite some assertions to the contrary, there was no evidence of an organised ‘Westminster paedophile network’. pp 11'

That's 'official speak' for saying that the claims of SRA rings and groups were untrue.

Additionally IICSA's full 190 page published report dealing specifically with 'Allegations of child sexual abuse linked to Westminster' contains lots of detail about various historic cases of sexual impropriety, extends to 57,000 words but does not mention Satanism, Witchcraft, Ritual Abuse or anything at all related to SRA. '' This conclusion followed several watersheds which had occurred in-between time as we will relate below:

Firstly, In 2016 the Met police began a countrywide investigation into new false accusations made about Edward Heath and an imagined clique of VIP abusers who had allegedly sacrificed a school boy in Satanic Rituals. These lurid claims were made by three women and a grifter called Carl Beech (who was given the pseudonym 'Nick' in news reports of the time). Beech made up a complex story about being a victim of VIP abuse in Satanic Rituals.

The resultant police investigation besmirched the honourable careers of many innocent VIPs and ex MPs including Sir Benjamin Herman, Lord McAlpine, Lord Brittan, Harvey Proctor and others, but eventually it became clear that Beech was a fantasist who nearly succeeded in getting two payments of £22,000 each from CICA's criminal compensation fund. His SRA story was false and it collapsed. When police looked deeper they found him in possession of child-porn and he had secretly filmed young boys in a toilet. In January 2019 Beech pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.

Yes, folks, the liar who had convinced thousands of self-righteous Satan Hunters and survivor groups across the internet of his plight as a victim of VIP abuse was actually an abuser himself. They had hung on his every word, they had used his lies to condemn other innocent people and troll them on the internet for being Satanic paedophiles, yet Beech was actually an abusing paedophile himself whose SRA story was a front. This shows just how ridiculous their claims of expertise about SRA really are - they can't even detect a paedo when he's stood in front of them.

In July 2019 Beech, who had destroyed so many honourable people with his lies, was tried again for Perverting the Cause of Justice and obtaining "£22,000 by deception". On 26 July he was found guilty and given 18 Years in prison.

The Beech case cracked-open the hysteria of VIP abuse allegations and the stories of self-styled victims slowed as the police and support groups at last began to demand more than anecdotal evidence of what self-styled 'victims' claimed.

As the Beech investigation (part of Operation Midland) progressed, another extensive and highly controversial police inquiry was ongoing - Operation Conifer - into Edward Heath's life based on the testimony of three women who had made claims of Satanic Abuse.

A leading criminologist who was asked to look at their evidence by Wiltshire police said they were Satanic Fantasists. Although Wiltshire police still insisted on furthering the inquiry, in October 2017 it closed reporting that none of the allegations checked out and they could find no other evidence against Heath. Another waste of £883,000.00 on non-existent SRA hysteria.

When Beech was jailed in 2019 it was clear that any claims of a high-level VIP abuse ring in the British Establishment was utterly without foundation. The SAFF covered the scandal and its main players in great detail here: http://saff.nfshost.com/panoramavip.htm

SAFF maintain that the rise in unsubstantiated allegations of VIP abuse on the internet began with the Helen G List in 2007. Two years later Robert Green was pushing the idea in Scotland in connection with false allegations related to Hollie Greig and false abuse allegations in the Scottish Justice System. It rose to a crescendo in 2012 after Jimmy Savile died and the spotlight was thrown onto 'Celebrity Abuse'.

Green was imprisoned for a year in Aberdeen nick for vigilante excesses in 2012 but that simply spurred on his compatriots in the Satan Hunter scene as you will see below.

The Satanic Crimes of The Hampstead Elite

Almost a year later and 400 miles away in England, similar lies about a new case of claimed Satanic Ritual Child Abuse began at Christchurch School in Hampstead, London. The tendentious allegations began to circulate on the internet. It was the same old worn-out allegations of SRA but this time the people being falsely accused were part of the London Elite and were not standing for it. They began to fight the lynch-mob with an influential media campaign to expose the lies. They were subject to the usual doxing, on-line threats, poisoned pen letters and mob protests outside the school itself. The hysteria rose to fantastic proportions with claims of child-abusing Satanists in a local restaurant (which had crucial similarities to the hysterical Pizza House conspiracy raging at the time in the U.S.). Police were regularly called in to restore order but failed, as usual, to see the long-term dangers.

All this activity caused award winning journalist David Aaronovitch, who knew the school well, to review the Satanic Ritual Child Abuse Myth since the 1990s. He was astounded that a panic which started in 1990 and which had been roundly discredited numerous times, was still going and causing serious problems 23 years later.

His research resulted in a now famous two part BBC Analysis program titled 'The Anatomy of A Panic' . Aaronovitch looked into the entire history of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Scare and concluded that it was all falsity created by hyper-vigilance within fringe child-protection groups and promoted by a clique of SRA believers ensconced within child-care. Anatomy of a Panic was broadcast on 25th May 2015 and the key players and RAINS activists who had pushed the scare since 1988, ( some of whom had given interviews in the programme ) , didn't like it one little bit.

Key RAINS activists who had pushed the scare since 1988, and were interviewed in the documentary, pulled out all the stops to try to discredit the programme.

Within days Aaronovitch's programme received an official complaint from Sarah Nelson and another from Tim Tate. Nelson, a supporter of RAINS and consistent promoter of the idea of Satanic Ritual Abuse since 1988 was a member of the Department of Sociology at Edinburgh university and positing herself as a specialist in Ritual Abuse. Nelson officially complained to the BBC about Aaronovitch's interview with her, but then she went further, she published extensive criticism of him with additional vituperation in an internet blog for all Satan Hunters to see. https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a-response-to-bbc-radio-4s-analysis-programme-by-dr-sarah-nelson/

The Needleblog had been very active in promoting the VIP hysteria, had backed Carl Beech's case and had also earlier carried articles by Tim Tate on VIP abuse. It was a blog where many SRA believers coalesced and swapped their ideas.

For good measure the same repudiation was published on the website of Izzy's Promise along with another scathing attack on Aaronovitch over Anatomy of a Panic, this time by Tim Tate.

Many of the criticisms from the Satan Hunters seemed to rely on impugning the professionalism of David Aaronovitch and he used barristerblogger's site here: to correct them in no unscertain terms.

Nelson's key complaint appeared to be that she claimed Aaronovitch had mislead her about the SRA content in the programme and that she may not therefore have given an interview had she known he was to focus on it. In short, entrapment. But Aronovitch knew Nelson was a key influencer in the current and past promotion of the idea of Ritual and Satanic Abuse who was currently pushing the idea at home and internationally. Surely he had a right to question her about it? Apparently not as her written complaint to the BBC Trust went:

“I was not dealt with fairly and honestly but deceived in terms of what I was led to expect in participating, and what I was assured would happen, compared with the broadcast content of these programmes.”

“I repeatedly sought and received assurances both verbally and by email, and as part of my agreement to participate, that the programmes would fairly reflect conflicting views and evidence on this controversial and sensitive topic...“I was not dealt with fairly and honestly but deceived in terms of what I was led to expect in participating, and what I was assured would happen, compared with the broadcast content of these programmes.”

“I repeatedly sought and received assurances both verbally and by email, and as part of my agreement to participate, that the programmes would fairly reflect conflicting views and evidence on this controversial and sensitive topic...'

You will notice, if you read her full complaint, reproduced in the BBC's adjudication, that she is not accusing Aaronovitch of factual inaccuracy but appears to be whingeing about the inclusion of criticism of Satanic Abuse in the programme.

Her approach as outlined in her appeal to the BBC complaints Trust was rejected as unfounded by the Trust's tribunal in December 2016.

Two months before Anatomy of A Panic was broadcast Nelson had an article published in the website for a U.S.A. extremist Satan Hunter group called S.M.A.R.T. [more on their lunacy later]

Nelson's article, implied that the authorities in Scotland were WRONG to believe that there was no abuse in the Orkney and Ayrshire SRA cases which occurred during the Satanic Panic. So here Nelson is insisting, 25 years after these infamous Scottish SRA cases had collapsed and been proven false, that Ritual Abuse HAD existed in the Orkney and Ayrshire cases. In the case of Orkney the allegations were proven utterly false in every respect and after the extensive Clyde Inquiry the great and the good in Scotland had promised the public that lessons would be learned and such mistakes would never occur again.

This constant repudiation of reality and historical memory is typical of Marxist-Maoist 'struggle sessions'. By drowning out reality with constant re-interpretations and the stretching of definitions whilst selectively quoting misleading statements out of context, the perception of history is altered and so is the conclusion about what really happened. The plan is to plant the seed of doubt in the minds of the undecided which in turn will cause a conversion to the required point of view.

The RAINS satan-hunters have spent the last 35 years infiltrating academe with articles ostensibly being objective reviews of the historical ramifications of the 1990 Satanic Panic but which are really black-propaganda designed to alter the conclusions made by the courts and public inquiries of the time so as to promote a belief in Satanic Ritual Abuse. This enables today's radical feminist Satan-hunters to portray SRA as a patriarchal cover-up to oppress women. It is being eagerly sucked-up by a new generation who did not live through those awful witch-hunts of the 1990s. Ironically, many of them are right-winger MAGA types who have no idea that the conspiracies they rely on have been fed to them by apparatchiks of the Left!

The SAFF of course is here to ensure that the TRUTH about what has happened since the 1990 Satanic Panic remains in view and that the awful repercussions and suffering that this evil myth has caused is minimised.

The Time Line On This Page Proves SRA is an illusion

To prove it to yourself, you will find a complete timeline of ALL claimed cases of Satanic Abuse since it was invented in 1988 along with the associated official inquiries and their conclusions listed for you plainly in the rightmost column. Click here to read this catalogue of errors and ignorance: ( See right-most column of https://saff.nfshost.com/glasgowcase.htm - it’s too big for Substack!)

Check it out! - By our count that is 34 major instances of FAILURE to prove the existence of SRA in every single case alleged, and every official investigation and inquiry undertaken in the past 36 years. For the radical feminists to continue their war against men this litany of malpractice MUST be hidden at all costs but the SAFF have tracked and recorded it for decades and they hate us for telling the Truth.

These 34 failures to prove SRA is not our opinion it is INCONTROVERTIBLE FACT and every detail can be seen in the public records. Anyone who contradicts these facts should be shunned as an anti-social troublemaker.

Yet In March 2021 Sarah Nelson seemed to blame those who had maintained that SRA had NOT occurred in Orkney for the 'regular' sexual abuse of children in cases that came later! In an article for the CRFR website she wrote:

'The spectre of a huge scandal against respectable families, magnified by disinformation, dealt a hammer blow to child protection social work. Dramatic media language about children snatched from their beds at sunrise painted them as cruel monsters, despite the timing and conduct of the raids being one act Lord Clyde did not criticise: “the conduct of the workers was efficient and supportive.” Although police and social workers acted jointly throughout, some right-wing media hostile to social work but supportive of the police painted a lasting image of social work as entirely to blame. The Orkney case was so negatively publicised and notorious that it had a prolonged intimidatory effect on social work action against child sexual abuse (CSA) in particular. It was one factor in the continuing decline in identification of sexual abuse through the child protection system and children’s hearings

This rewriting of history continued in 2021 when Nelson presented another paper entitled The Legacy of Orkney for Child Protection, published by the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships ( https://www.crfr.ac.uk/the-legacy-of-orkney-for -child-protection-2/ ) in which Nelson insists that the social workers involved did no wrong in Orkney and also, for good measure, throws in an wholly inaccurate statement about the 2003 Isle of Lewis case. This is what she wrote:

The 2005 Social Work Inspection Agency report on Eilean Siar (Western Isles) analysed failure to act on 222 official concerns about three girls who faced severe abuse, trafficking, violence and neglect. It suggested one reason for the prolonged attempts to engage with the family rather than remove the children, was the new children’s legislation and the aftermath of the Orkney Inquiry.'

Nelson implies that the true import of the Isle of Lewis Satanic Ritual Abuse case was hidden because the rush to correct social services malpractice, after Orkney, imposed new laws which disabled the social workers from dealing properly with the abuse found there. She insinuates that the abuse in Lewis was real and that the cowing of social workers who believed in SRA in that case failed the children.

This is a preposterous rewriting of reality. The fact is that new social service rules imposed after the scandal of Orkney has SAVED the children. There was absolutely no abuse at all in the Isle of Lewis case, it was all entirely a figment of the imaginations of Satan Hunters in the local Social Services Department. Predicated upon the lies of a young girl. Not a single person was prosecuted and the police dropped all the charges!

Nelson seems to be suggesting that if left to themselves, the social workers would have sorted the matter out and confirmed their suspicions of SRA. Yet social work history is replete with the unintentional harm which can be caused by maverick social workers who believe in this nonsense. The idea that they can be left to police themselves is laughable, as this extract below shows:

In 1973 there was an event which sent shock and terror throughout social work – it was the death of a child, Maria Colwell who was at the time under the care and supervision of a social worker. It was followed however by many, many more such children – Jasmine Beckford, Tyra Henry, Stephen Meurs to name but a few and most recently, Victoria Climbie’.

There have now been almost 40 such incidents since 1973 where children have died while under the care and supervision of social workers. There have also been other major inquiries such as Cleveland/ the Orkneys / Nottingham / Rochdale and Shieldfield

 [source: The Role of social workers – advocates or investigators” by Charles Pragnell, UCAAFAA. ] 

Sarah Nelson's approach, involving as it does a state of denial about the Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria and a twisted view of the efficacy of social work interventions, is typical of the coterie of RAINS types who have clung on to this ridiculous SRA myth for three decades despite every case they produce falling flat on its face.

Yet earlier, on 1st March 2016, Sarah Nelson published a vituperative article which appeared in 'The National' headlined: Orkney, Ayrshire, Cleveland... will the authorities ever learn about child sexual abuse cases? https://www.thenational.scot/news/14862414.orkney-ayrshire-cleveland-will-the-authorities-ever-learn-about-child-sexual-abuse-cases/

Why did Nelson come out of the woodwork to write this re framing of Orkney?
Because 'The National' had the month previously marked the 25th anniversary of the Orkney Scandal with an utterly biased article by Jean Rafferty titled When evil visited Orkney: Untold story of ritual child abuse allegations on the island. https://www.thenational.scot/news/14862249.when-evil-visited-orkney-untold-story-of-ritual-child-abuse-allegations-on-the-island For those who are unaware, 'The National' is a SNP supporting, left-leaning, Scottish Nationalist propaganda mouthpiece and rewriting history about scandals involving the lack of protection for Scottish children whilst Scotland was under the control of Westminster makes nice copy for them.
Rewriting history is a key feature of those who want to change the past. As Orwell's '1984' clearly states:

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past "

These articles by Nelson and Rafferty are not factual reviews they are polemics and entirely misleading to anyone who did not live through that awful panic. I wonder how many wet-behind-the-ears readers will believe them? You would think that no falsely accused people and kidnapped children were still alive to give the nay. Do you want to see what the public and all other non-RAINS observers thought at the time? Then look at this extract from Anthea Hall's summary of the state of UK social work in the Daily Telegraph of 7 April 1991

"Whereas at the end of the Cleveland inquiry, the reader was no wiser as to which abuses had or had not taken place, Mr Justice Douglas Brown was unequivocal. After 47 days, he condemned gross breaches of good practice “on the excuse of lack of resources", leading questions and interviewing techniques which resulted in "exaggeration and fabrication” and concluded there was no evidence of ritual abuse and no evidence of sex abuse in all but one case.

It took Sheriff David Kelbie less than two days to dismiss the "flawed, incompetent
Orkney case. The children, he said, had been "coached" into giving statements, He ridiculed the alleged use of ritualistic music - it could have been anything from Kylie Minogue to Strip the Willow - and demanded that the children be returned home without delay.

Now it is becoming as clear to the. public as it was to such politicians as MP Stuart Bell in Cleveland and Councillor Peter Thomson in Rochdale - and the entire population of South Ronaldsay - that the social services can no longer be relied upon as kind do-gooders working with individual deprived families to help them to lead reasonable lives.

Want more?

We got plenty more!

Such as seething criticisms of idiotic outpourings from RAINS in broadcasts, reports, documents, inquiries, cuttings, all saying much the same thing, that SRA obsessed social workers had converted 'orthodox' abuse into SRA and even fabricated cases where non existed.

'The SSI inspectors last week spoke to PAIN, the organisation Parents Against Injustice, about a dossier alleging that Rochdale social workers ignored guidelines...the Butler-Sloss report on the Cleveland affair was flouted..........In particular, parents were:
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• Denied a report of the full home assessment of their circumstances.

• Not told of the allegations against them

• Not given advice on their rights or about how to obtain legal advice.

• Denied the right to seek independent medical or psychiatric opinion.[source: Mail On Sunday 7th Oct 1990]

The only faith in social workers appears to be the arrogance of the faith they have in themselves.
At the time there were hundreds of similar articles in the regular press which reviewed the history of the false Orkney SRA case and the mistakes that were made. Occasionally the Scottish media will actually do their duty and report honestly on the Orkney case and its aftermath. This article here; http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/real-life/orkney-child-sex-abuse-scandal-1099361 Is a good example where the local Orkney GP who had to cope with it all speaks candidly about the errors in social work and child-care. Dr Helen Martini concludes that

'Dr Martini believes social workers at the time were influenced by a then-fashionable American theory of child-sex abuse which saw satanist perverts at every turn. She said: "I don't think there was any malice - an awful lot of stupidity, but no malice. I think the people involved really genuinely thought they were doing the right thing. "They genuinely thought we were all satanists who were abusing children."

She added: "The whole thing was absolutely awful. The kids were interrogated for hour after hour, day after day, week after week. "People involved in child protection and the whole social work field are poorly trained. Everyone goes on courses and that's great. 'I've been on a two-day child protection course so I'm now an expert'.

"There's a total lack of common sense. So 20 years ago, I don't think there was any malice - there was just no brain.

"That's what worries me, I think it could happen again. Not the same scenario - but the same underlying problem.

Dr Helen Martini was predicting a resurgence of SRA hysteria in this interview which she gave in 2011 ; and she was right wasn't she? It DID happen again in the Isle of Lewis Case in 2003 and the VIP abuse claims in 2015 and now again in the Glasgow case in 2023. Satanic Abuse will not die because those moral crusaders who believe in the phantom just won't stop pushing it.

Another doctor on Orkney, Dr D.H.S. Reid, a consultant paediatrician, was asked to look at earlier medical examinations of the children done by a doctor who worked for Orkney SS. His diagnosis was scathing. The first prognoses, which were crucial in condemning children and parents, were ambiguous and uncertain. The conclusions of abuse made by the first doctor could not be relied upon. When Reid submitted his second opinion to the Orkney Social Services they ignored it! And then the doctor who had first examined the W children threatened him with a writ for defamation to stop him publishing his diagnoses!

Dr Reid was so incensed at the malpractice and cover up in Orkney that he wrote and published a powerful book on the entire fiasco 'Suffer The Little Children' ( isbn1871479037 first published 1992 ) in which he lays out the obsessions of SRA hunters in Orkney Social Services and how they corrupted accepted rules and fail-safes in social work. It is a superb insight into what happened which is , we think, even more informative than Lord Clyde's 82 page inquiry report. There are hundreds of shocking points made in Suffer The Little Children but here's a salient one considering the subject under discussion.

'The assault by the believers has not just been on Mrs. Kemp. Sheriff David Kelbie, Mr. Paul Lee (the director of Orkney social services), the Scottish Secretary (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind) and others have also been attacked. .... Let me give one typical example. It shows how Dr. Y's medical report has been much expanded and embroidered by the believers in the abuse. In the Glasgow Herald on 14 December 1991 a Sarah Nelson reported in a letter to the editor that 'a sheriff's proof hearing in January 1991, established 'chronic penetrative sexual abuse' on a small child discharged home without a hearing in 1989. The truth is that there never was a court hearing in January 1991 and no court has ever been asked to determine whether any of these seven youngest 'W' children is or was abused.

Although now billed as an academic on social work courses at Edinburgh University Nelson started out as a freelance journalist and titled herself in that way in the submission she made to Lord Clyde's Orkney public Inquiry.

This double-barrelled attack by Rafferty and Nelson in The National is important not just because of its faulty content but also because of its complacency. Perhaps they think that the true facts about Orkney are now so dimmed by the mists of time that ridiculously untrue assertions will go without criticism? But the truth is still there and the truth says that Orkney was the worst example of social work bloody-mindedness in history. Replete with malpractice from SRA hunting social workers who to this day refuse to admit their wrongs.

Were these articles in The National meant to cause doubt and a reconsideration or were they designed to encourage those who already believe in the SRA conspiracy meme? Perhaps, as Dr. Helen Martini suggested, they were looking for more 'people without brains'?

Who is Jean Rafferty?. Well as you might guess from reading this page so far, she's part of the RAINS SRA caucus. In "Ritual Abuse in The 21st Century" an omnibus of ridiculous articles and essays on SRA, which was published in 2015, page 320 clearly states.:
Some journalist are concerned about ritual abuse and have written intelligent and sensitive articles. They include Andrew Boyd, Beatrix_Campbell, Nick Davies, Tim Tate, Sarah Nelson, Jean Rafferty ..

It is a roll-call of key SRA fanatics from the Satanic Panic.
Andrew Boyd's work on SRA was utterly discredited here: http://saff.nfshost.com/devilvid.htm
Beatrix Campbell's work on SRA was challenged and exposed here http://saff.nfshost.com/bcamp.htm
Tim Tate's work on SRA was undermined here: http://saff.nfshost.com/childrenforthedevil.jpg

Jean Rafferty's take was challenged by none other than Professor Jean La Fontaine herself (she ran the government's definitive inquiry into SRA - including the Rochdale and Orkney cases). Following a contentious article by Rafferty in the Guardian on 22nd March 1997 titled 'Ritual Denial', Professor La Fontaine had a correction published in the Guardian's letters page a few days later and stated:

'I would welcome the opportunity to correct two points on which she (Jean Rafferty) is quite wrong. To try and correct all the errors would take too long.'

Nelson was apparently so pleased at the articles in The National that a month later she lauded them in the S.M.A.R.T journal issue 127 (2016), reproducing both articles for the groups extensive U.S. and international Satan-Hunter membership. Nelson writes:

Secondly, like Jean Rafferty I and others have over 25 years tried to publicise suggestive evidence that children were indeed in danger. Particularly over the Orkney case, we have tried to correct untruths - in print, on the BBC, in documentaries and online - and point up the flaws in the endlessly recycled and invented theories by supporters of accused adults, who allege it was just "satanic panic". [ source:]

Here Nelson illustrates that she is part of an international clique ( S.M.A.R.T. = Stop Mind-Control and Ritual Abuse Today ) which has fought to get Satanic Ritual Child Abuse accepted in academic circles and social work professions across the globe, for three decades.

All the people mentioned so far make up Satanic Abuse PLC. They network with each other, nationally and multi-nationally to pursue their obsessions about SRA. In Britain, and for three decades, most things related to SRA coalesce around these RAINS people. In this programme (see illustration ) for the 2020 Dundee Satanic Ritual Abuse conference you can see how far the international spread of this caucus of SRA believers extends. From Australia there is Mike Salter, a criminologist and rising star in the RAINS firmament. See more of him and his potty claims here, hugging another RAINS founder Valerie Sinason: http://saff.nfshost.com/mikesaltersra.htm

From the US is the madcap Neil Brick who runs SMART, and who believes he is an involuntary CIA hit-man (shades of the 'Manchurian Candidate'). Believing in SRA is not the academic cul-de-sac you might have thought. Is it any wonder that SRA is still percolating within social work with these people consistently and constantly working it up?

On 21st September 2001 a person pseudonymed 'Kali' wrote a report on attending The Dark Side of The Rainbow, a conference for all those in the UK who still believed in Satanic Ritual Child Abuse. The conference was organised by RAINS and attended mostly by RAINS members. Kali stated:

I heard about the second conference in this country concerning ritual abuse, organised by R.A.I.N.S. ( Ritual Abuse Information Network and Support ) and the Clinic of Dissociative Studies, via my then therapist who had just joined RAINS.

According to Kali's report, Nelson and Rafferty not only attended this Satan Seminar but actually participated, she wrote:

Sarah Nelson and Jean Rafferty are journalists, Sarah also conducts academic research in child sexual abuse, together they addressed the painful feelings around coming to terms with failing to protect children and the distortions spread around famous abuse cases;

Clearly Nelson and Rafferty are colleagues and part of the RAINS clique. In their 2001 Satan Seminar they are again challenging the conclusions of Lord Clyde's Public Inquiry into Orkney and other cases where false claims of SRA were made. They and most of the RAINS coterie maintain that they were NOT false and that the Orkney abuse claims were TRUE. They are deluded.

Fast forward another 19 years and in the 2020 Dundee Satan Seminar Sarah Nelson feels confident enough to present a long lecture on why Orkney should be re-evaluated and seen as a real case of SRA abuse. See the illustration for an important extract, and note also the mention of Tate's documentary on the Cleveland Scandal (Death of Childhood) which she implies somehow proved her case when SAFF's review of it shows that it did exactly the reverse!

Sarah Nelson boasts of writing to any publication or broadcasting programme which repeats the Truth that Orkney was a false case worked-up by Satan Hunters in social work. She says that she 'always' emails in, and indeed she was as good as her word when she complained to the BBC about David Aaronovitch's Radio 4 Analysis documentary titled ' The Anatomy of a Panic' (see detailed account of it elsewhere on this web page) . This is a continuation of the old crusade which RAINS pursued during the 1990 panic. Then RAINS types said that they had uncovered a pan-global Satanic conspiracy to abuse children and complained that their evidence was being corrupted by a Satanic campaign of disinformation which caused others in social work to be resistant to 'the facts'.

Satanists of the kind that do this use sabotage, threats, false accusations,lawsuits and the media for discrediting the work. I have to deal with permanent fear of attack and overwhelming grief. Images from children's cartoons are deliberately exploited. For example, one satanic group wore Disney characters' masks so that when a child kept telling his mother that Mickey Mouse had hurt him she just dismissed what he was saying as a nightmare."

[source: Pamela Hudson child-protection specialist interviewed in Talk of The Devil, Guardian, November 4th 1990 ]

This is of course 100% conjecture.
There have been no real Satanic Threats in three decades.

There have been a few innocent fathers victimised by social workers about Satanic Abuse who snapped and threatened violence but they were not Satanists.
There has been no media discreditation except where it was richly deserved. See cutting.

There has been no lawsuits except by patients who woke up to the lies being implanted in their memories by loony therapists. See: The Woman Who Had 48 Personalities: http://saff.nfshost.com/DIDpsychiatricvoodoo.htm#50persons

Pamela Hudson does not of course mention the instances where patients have killed themselves whilst undergoing Recovered Memory Therapy linked to false claims of Satanic Abuse. See The tragic case of Caroline Marchant here.

Nor does she mention the hundreds of bemused parents who have had their lives destroyed by false claims of SRA from daughters who have fallen into the clutches of Satan hunting therapists who implant false memories of abuse by innocent parents. Some of them just lost the will to live.

Even the Disney Mask meme is unreal. It has been repeated numerous times in papers, books, and presentations. Trotted off the tongue as though it is incontrovertible. Some times it is a Disney Mask, other times it is a Lion Costume, then again it is an animal Mask, yet in truth it is all the outpourings of children's imaginations worked-up by obsessive believers in SRA. There is not an ounce of truth in any of it. There has not been a single police investigation involving SRA in which abusers had used this Mask idea or anything remotely similar to it.

Local Reaction to the 2020 Dundee Satan Seminar

So what did the local Dundee newspaper do when faced with this new Satan Seminar held in their university in 2020? Why, just like in 1990 it gave the foolish claims prominence as though there was a scintillae of truth in any of them. Just as in 1990 it printed abject unfact without question and without referring to the bulk of specialists in social work who know the history and dangers of SRA, and without giving any representatives of the Witch or Satanic communities a chance to repudiate the false claims perennially made against them. This is how the SRA axis has always succeeded, in a goldfish bowl of their own making, pandering to the salacious appetite of the mass media, on the back of the prejudices of those who think they are well-informed but are actually utterly ignorant.

In her article in The National, Sarah Nelson claims to have 'reassessed' (she means 'denied') the official conclusions about Orkney and she says she has done so publicly, yet, she complains, that it has been given very little exposure.

Like some modern day Canute she stands in the shallows demanding not only that the tide goes out at her command but that bystanders believe it will as well! She expects others to validate her foolish standpoint which goes against all available evidence, all available testimony, all available forensic evidence, all available fact and every single police investigation into hundreds of cases of false SRA claims.

Lip Smacking - Satan-hating, Masonic-hunting, Vatican-detesting, Mind-bending, Zionist-killing, MK-Ultra, LOONIES!

Moreover if you use this link to read Nelson's boring and speculative nonsense in full you will see that it is enshrined in the American website of SMART - one of the most lunatic and reactionary conspiracy theory groups on the internet which believes in the full-blown CIA/FBI - Five-Eyes - Satanic - Freemasonry - Zionist-conspiracy, Rothschild, New World Order hatred; in which a Jewish Elite is claimed to be ruling the world using MK-Ultra mind-bending techniques to turn ordinary people into schizophrenic Manchurian Candidates who kill on command!

Yes, dear reader, they're just BONKERS. But the NWO conspiracy theory is a haven for many schizophrenics and paranoids who think they hear the Satanic Illuminati talking to them. These are undoubtedly the types of people who are populating Nelson's stable of 1650 victims of Satanic Abuse in Edinburgh. Did you watch flashing TV advertisements last night? Then you've been MK-Ultra-ed!

Nelson has not only written for SMART but appeared at their conferences. As well as believing in SRA does Nelson also believe in an anti-Semitic trope about Jews establishing a new world order? . Is this the kind of racist information that the Scottish Educational elite condones? Is it being taught to students there?

As recently as the 23rd January 2022 a 'survivor group' of self-styled SRA 'victims' planned a mass-march of other self-styled SRA 'victims' and their supporters to blockade Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury, Bucks which was once owned by the Rothschild family. The blockade was to protest and promote their 'truth' about the New World Order anti-zionist myth which has gained new traction of late with the war in the Middle East.

The police got wind of it, swooped and arrested the ring-leader, one Jeanette Archer, who for years has claimed to be a victim of inter-generational Satanic Abuse and has lead protest marches in London to falsely accuse all and sundry of it. Her own SRA story has been proven totally untrue (she even invented a sister who was supposedly sacrificed to Satan but who never existed - see here for full story: ).

Now don't for one minute think that Archer is an outlier. She is directly in contact with many of the SRA academics through the ESTD in Europe and the USA. You can see , from the screenshot to the right that Archer is also networking with S.M.A.R.T in the USA. The same outfit that Sarah Nelson and Laurie Matthews works with. Yes folks, belief in SRA is a world-wide conspiracy. ( Remember you can double click on each image to get a larger version to read in detail.)

On 15 July 2023 Archer hosted The International Conference on Satanic Ritual Abuse in London with dozens of delegates and speakers attending from all over Europe and the USA.

The SAFF's blow-by-blow assessment of this conference here: http://saff.nfshost.com/archersatanseminar2023.htm shows that the unhinged people giving the lunatic outpourings on the podium about SRA are the same type of people Nelson and RAINS consider to be genuine victims when undergoing 'analysis'.

What has happened is that the monster RAINS has created has surpassed its controllers in the feminist and therapist arenas. This new breed of SRA victim-imposters have simply left their therapists behind. So many fools now believe in SRA that there is no need for a therapist to validate 'victims' , they can self-identify as SRA victims on-line, get validation and support from 'SRA victim's groups' on line and bypass RAINS and the therapists completely.

Do not give your moral support or sympathy to these self-styled SRA victim imposters, many of them are nasty and evil racists. Almost all of them are 'useful idiots' to extreme political enclaves. Just as they damn and accuse Satanists they also accuse Jews of drinking the blood of children, the original millennia old blood libel. And if you click this link you can see a video of Jeanette Archer stood outside No.10 Downing Street with her mob, shouting about blood-drinking child abusing Satanists in the British Government.

Are you aware, dear reader, that the New World Order myth is actually taught by Hamas to Palestinian children in their schools in Gaza as a reality? Seeding the murder of tens of thousands in the minds of the next generation of terrorists? Things which have no basis in fact have killed millions throughout history - just look at the death toll of the Church witch-trials spanning the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Defenceless old biddies burned alive at the stake to pacify the Churches' hatred of dissenters.

People who believe in and further the SRA myth are NOT saving children, they are creating and promoting inherent evil which will end up killing thousands of children, as it has done throughout history and did recently in Israel and Palestine. "The True meaning of a thing always resides in its opposite". The paranoia of SRA is a projection of the evil within those who fear they will lose control and do those things to children themselves. Their warnings are pleas to be stopped and that is what the SAFF has always known and always highlighted.

Academics who pretend to know what's what and consistently breath life into these horrific lies, are even more guilty of these horrors as the psychotics and grifters who have jumped on the SRA bandwagon to grab the headlines and feed their own megalomania.

Nelson insists in her article for The National, that Cleveland, Orkney and Ayrshire cases were all TRUE and that everyone else got it wrong. All the judges, all the juries, all the police, all the public inquiries, they all got it wrong.

She fails to mention that the Cleveland Parents were awarded £850,000.00 in damages in acknowledgement of the wrongful kidnapping of their children by Social Services. Or that the mother of the 'W' children at the centre of the Orkney fiasco was offered £100.000 if she admitted that her children had been sexually abused and REFUSED that considerable sum because she knew the social services were trying it on and the kids had not been abused.

Nelson's Stalinist like Revisionist logic maintains that the Satanic content of these cases was worked-up by the media itself and overpowered the true abuse which lay beneath. She infers that the true work of ground-breakers in social services dealing with SRA was censored and misrepresented by the mass media. Is that true?
NO it bloody-well is not!

Faery Stories from Satan Hunters - the truth of how the British media supported and promoted the lies of RAINS

The SAFF's Research Library has studied the incidence of published accounts of SRA in the media, both tabloid and broadsheet, during the Satanic Panic and certainly before the tragic consequences of the Rochdale SRA case in 1991, RAINS and other pushers of SRA had almost carte-blanche to state their case with the media hanging on and believing in their every word.

See inset image of a two full page special on promoting the 'threat' of SRA from the Guardian newspaper (Talk of The Devil) in which Valerie Sinason founder of RAINS is front and centre. RAINS and other believers in SRA had two years of being able to promote SRA with almost every single newspaper and media outlet in the country accepting RAINS 'expertise' on trust. These newspapers just printed any old tosh that believers in SRA claimed, without challenge. They just assumed, as did every other right-thinking person, that responsible people, Doctors, Therapists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers and the like would never claim such things unless there was good evidence for it.

Double click on the image and you will get a full-size version of Talk of The Devil to read easily and you will see how much leeway RAINS was given to spout it's SRA nonsense. It is entirely UNTRUE to say that the world was antagonistic or that the Media refused to accept what people like Sarah Nelson were saying. The SAFF Research Library is literally packed with major articles where the British Press supported them.

What is noteworthy about this Talk of The Devil article in the Guardian?

The most notable thing is that there is absolutely no challenge to any of the SRA allegations made by Satan Hunters. The Guardian abdicated it's own journalistic rules and did not include ANY responses or countering arguments from a single expert who thought differently. Representations from Witches and Satanists wanting to clear up the misunderstandings were simply ignored. Most other national newspapers did the same. A strong belief in SRA within the populace was established by these early unquestioning newspaper reports which could not resist repeating the mad claims. That is what actually caused The Satanic Panic.

Far from being antagonistic to believers in SRA the British Press ensured that the RAINS clique had it all their own way, yet now Sarah Nelson has the cheek to complain that the cause of their failures in Rochdale and Orkney was not that they were chasing a fantasy, but that the media mis-represented their case! Weird.

If you look at the Guardian reports during the early days of the Rochdale SRA case (right- Satanic Abuse Total Grows) you will see that the newspaper consistently downplayed the parents complaints and promoted the conclusions and statements of social workers, in particular Gordon Littlemore, director of Rochdale Social Services. Littlemore's actions in supporting the mad ideas about Satanic Ritual Abuse held by his staff in Rochdale meant that he had to resign when the truth came out and the Rochdale SRA allegations were found to be fiction. The blame was squarely laid in court on the shoulders of crusading social workers with an obsession about Satanic Ritual Abuse.
In fact the Guardian itself, in an article covering the state of play in the debate after Prof. Jean La Fontaine's 1994 report ( which concluded that SRA was a figment of the minds of obsessed social workers and fundamentalists) admitted that:

'But the believers, both patients and therapists, can only flourish and publicise their claims in, a society that is prepared to listen, although they constantly complain that the media has offered nothing but callous ridicule, it has in fact granted [believers in SRA] prolonged and respectful coverage, and not only in excitable tabloids.'
[Satanic Verses, Guardian Weekend 10th Sept 1994]

What Really Happened?

Saran Nelson must have forgotten what actually happened in 1991. After the SRA allegations had collapsed following the Rochdale case and then the Orkney case was found to be an even bigger mistake, the media turned on Satan Hunters as perfidious. Believers of SRA have been in a state of denial over it ever since. They simply cannot swallow the fact that their contentions were wrong, their allegations false and their conclusions bigoted. They who foisted SRA onto Britain were caught out three decades ago but still seem to be pretending that no one spotted them!

Radical Feminist Beatrix Campbell attacks Anatomy of A Panic.

The third complaint against David Aaronovitch's and the BBC's Anatomy of a Panic came in two articles by the journalist and radical Marxist feminist, Beatrix Campbell, a key figure in the promotion of the Satanic Panic since 1989. ( see: Small Selection of Claims Made By Beatrix Campbell" ) . Her repostes were hosted on the Open Democracy website, the first being entitled “Analysing Aaronovitch: - has the scourge of ‘conspiracists’ become one himself?” and the second “Analysing Aaronovitch: - a skeptical narrative.

Almost anyone who had been prominent in the pushing of non-existent SRA in the UK seemed to be on David Aaronovitch's tail.

Tim Tate's complaints to the BBC were even stranger. Tate is a key believer and promoter of SRA from the Satanic Panic days. He was the man who researched and produced the ridiculous Cook Report's Devil's Work special which almost single-handedly kick-started the SRA scare in Britain.

Note: The NSPCC's sensational announcement that their child-protection teams had found instances of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse in the UK was held on the morning of the 17th July 1989. Of course it was just coincidental that at 10pm that very evening, the Cook Report screened its Devil's Work documentary. A special hour long programme designed to expose what they said was a new found threat of SRA to the British Public.

Note also that the Cook Report had originally been scheduled for broadcast a couple of weeks earlier at their usual 7pm slot, but its content worried the Independent Broadcasting Authority who demanded that it be screened AFTER the 9pm watershed. Thus it is clear that the NSPCC's announcement and the Cook Report coming on the same day revealed a monumental synchronistic accident which just happened to maximise the shock and horror of their SRA claims on the same day!

Tim Tate's book on the subject of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse titled 'Children For The Devil' (was based on the research he did for The Devil's Work, ) but was withdrawn and pulped in 1991 soon after publication, due to libellous inaccuracies. See http://saff.nfshost.com/childrenforthedevil.htm.

When Arronovitch's Anatomy of a Panic was first broadcast the SAFF was disappointed that in his interview with Tate, Aaronovitch had not questioned him about the many errors in The Devil's Work including the fact that of the 20 claimed SRA cases Tate held as having proven Satanic Abuse NONE had actually been successful in court. Every single one of them failed to be what the Cook Report had told the British nation they were. NSPCC's own claims of having 6 of their child protection teams dealing with cases of SRA was also an untruth. None of those cases were found to be true either when they got to court. It was all just hyper-vigilance. You might say that the Satanic Panic was the most horrendously successful hoax ever broadcast to the British people.

David Aaronovitch's replied to the SAFF stating that Tate had told him that he was 'just the researcher on a flawed show' but SAFF knew that the entire programme had more or less been the brain-child of Tate and he was involved in editorial control of it. He says as much in his book Children For The Devil. He was there for most of the filming, was responsible for the research that justified the programme, liaised and interviewed most of those who appeared in it, and sometimes directed the cameras (for instance he was found directing the use of a hidden camera when trying to film outside the Sorcerer's Apprentice Bookshop when Cook tried and failed to doorstep Chris Bray, his patsy).

Tate did not say that his show 'was flawed' when he defended the programme at the Broadcasting Complaints Commission hearing, on 6th December 1990. According to Mr Chris Bray, the bookshop owner who was defamed by Tate and Cook as a villain in the programme but who had absolutely nothing to do with any form of child-abuse. Mr Bray was invited to bring the complaint against the Cook Report after hundreds of his loyal customers spontaneously wrote in to the BCC to complain. Mr Bray attended the formal BCC hearing in London, at which Tate was also present and took a major part in defending it. Bray recalled:

'Tate appeared to be fighting for his professional reputation' and did most of the talking during the hearing from the Central Television side. I called him out for several inexactitudes and once for stating a crucial untruth about me which when tested by the adjudicators he simply could not back-up.'

One of Tate's specific complaints to the BBC about Anatomy of a Panic was that Tate's promotion of the idea of SRA had been misinterpreted by Aaronovitch to show him in a bad light in reference to a specific quote in an interview Tate gave to Radio Leeds the day after the Cook Report's Devil's Work was broadcast. Aaronovitch asked Tate about him implying on air that there was a world-wide conspiracy to abuse toddlers, According to the BBC's Tribunal ruling, this is how the transcript of Tate's interview with Aaronovitch went:

In the interview David Aaronovitch cited a quote which the complainant (Tate) was said to have given at the time of The Cook Report to BBC Radio Leeds (the relevant section is in bold):

DAVID AARONOVITCH: I believe you were interviewed about the Cook Report – the day after it was shown. Is that correct?

[TIM TATE] If you say so. I’m afraid it’s twenty ... no it’s the best part of thirty years ago, so ... I’m afraid my memory isn’t that good.

DAVID AARONOVITCH: ...You were asked about ... what appeared to be an extremely bizarre phenomenon. And then you said, “Well you either have an international conspiracy of toddlers, which is extremely unlikely,or some rather more intelligent adult organisation doing it.” And that seemed to give credibility to the notion of a much bigger conspiracy of I don’t know what you’d call them – Satanists, occultists, ritualists or whatever – abusing children.

[TIM TATE]: You’re right, I don’t remember the quote. It doesn’t actually seem an unreasonable ... quote if it ... That said, it was slightly clumsy, and I think we have to be careful about the word “conspiracy”.

David Aaronovitch did not challenge Tim Tate's answer. Why Tate would choose that specific point to complain about is kind of weird for David Aaronovitch was perfectly correct. That's precisely what Tate had said, and he said it more than once.

In fact the SAFF has a complete audio-recording of that Radio Leeds Interview and we don't know how Tate could have possibly forgotten it as he was being interviewed alongside Mr. Chris Bray whose Bookshop Tate had unfairly targeted as the 'patsy' for his discredited Devil's Work documentary.

The head-to-head was highly emotional and combative as Mr Bray was naturally incensed at being falsely accused in front of 9 million viewers! The interview ended up somewhat of a shouting match in fact. Not something anyone could ever forget easily and to assist your understanding of the SRA circus we have uploaded it in full to our SAFFutube Channel here so that you can listen to Tate saying it.

Moreover, Tate had used his 'conspiracy of toddlers' quote on OTHER occasions. Was he really trying to imply that he didn't remember using it? The illustration (above right) is a transcript of Tate quoting the 'conspiracy of toddlers' meme again three months later on 19th Sept 1989 to hundreds of thousands of listeners on the BBC World Service! Did he forget that one as well perhaps?

To cap it all, Tate also used the quote ' A Conspiracy of Toddlers? as the title of the first chapter of his 1991 book Children For The Devil. (see image to the right)

Clearly Tim Tate must have a very poor memory indeed don't you think? Children for The Devil was, soon after publication, withdrawn by his publishers for factual inaccuracies, but still exists in many Satan Hunter bibliographies as a supposed source-work of insider knowledge on SRA even though copies are now rare. So does Tate still back up his failed 'Conspiracy of Toddlers' claim?

Interestingly in early 2021 an Irish conspiracyloon by the name of Angela Power Disney who has a large satan-hunter following and produces podcasts on SRA over the internet, managed to obtain an original copy of Tate's Children For The Devil and began narrating it in a series of weekly podcasts. Tate was apoplectic to get her to stop as of course she could have easily breached the defamation agreement Tate's publisher signed with the Detective Inspector whom Tate had rashly libelled over claims of SRA and thereby open up another writ.

Amusingly for observers, Power-Disney suspected that this person on Twitter/X who was demanding that she stop podcasting the book was not Tate but a Satanist trying to stop dissemination of true SRA secrets! You can't beat SRA paranoia folks! We're not sure how Tate solved this issue but it opened him to Power-Disney's eclectic SRA hunter network and there's sporadic flaming and repudiation of the extreme ends of the SRA myth all over their social networks, where Tate is subjected to the paranoia he himself helped to create!
How exquisite.

At the other end of the scale, in 2014 the august European Society for Trauma and Dissociation published a lengthy article promoting the idea of a conspiracy of Satanic Ritual Child Abusers to its international membership base and Tate's book was included in the bibliography (see image). Note that Alexis Jay, a prime mover in child-protection and who chaired the UK government's 6 year inquiry into Historic Abuse attended the ESTD's annual conference in 2017 as an observer.

In these two opposite events we have a good example of why SRA will just not die. Clearly Tate not only believed in his 'conspiracy of toddlers' meme but actively promoted it at the time. It must have convinced a lot of onlookers. Why on earth would he now complain to the BBC about David Aaronovitch pointing this out in Anatomy of a Panic? Did Nelson and Tate have genuine reasons to complain against Aaronovitch or was this simply a case of the SRA lobby turning on an influential leftist journalist who had gone against their narrative?

The many entries in the SAFF's Research Library records shows that Tate was more responsible than most for hiking the 1990 Satanic Panic. Does he really want to distance himself from The Devil's Work and its excesses? This distancing could have begun quite early on if this letter (reproduced below) is anything to go by.

Interestingly, despite the continuing antagonisms twixt Tate and Bray, by June 1990, Tate was passing follow-up interest on the Devil's Work back to Chris Bray. On 19th June 1990, Jean Ritchie (author of many books on crime and the psychology of crime) wrote to Mr Bray for information for a new book on Satanic Abuse which she had been commissioned to write. This was how her letter went:

"I initially made contact with Tim Tate (I did not see the Cook Report, but had heard about it and was referred by their office to Tim Tate.) He agreed to see me, and gave me several names connected with two religions, paganism and Satanism. He explained to me that there had been a problem with the programme, in that it did not differentiate between the two sufficiently. However, he said that whatever bad feeling exists between him and you, I should make every effort to contact you as he believes that you are, in his words, 'the most intelligent, the most sincere and the best informed person on the subject".

So according to Jean Ritchie here we have Tate, admitting that The Devil's Work was at fault for not drawing a distinction between Witchcraft and Satanism. Yet that was entirely the backbone of the assertions in it and today 34 years later those same untruths are also integral to the failed Glasgow SRA case

David Aaronovitch told SAFF that he couldn't find a copy of Tate's The Devil's Work documentary to view. Had he asked us we would have pointed him to video extracts from it which have been up on the SAFF's Youtube channel for the past seven years. Click here to see:

Do you want to know more about Tim Tate's activities in promoting the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth? Read on:

Laura's Story: The saga of a little child exploited by unscrupulous media to sell the Myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse.

As time moves on, the insupportable weight of Truth completely and utterly destroys what these promoters of SRA claim.

Like the little girl Laura whom Tate featured being 'exorcised' in church in The Devil's work, (included in the video extracts in the SAFFutube link above) who, years later, when she had become an adult and escaped social services domination, contacted the SAFF to complain about how SRA believers had ruined her life based on lies and sectarian suspicion. Now married with a child of her own she told us in detail how she was exploited by the Cook Report who made money out of her suffering. It was Satan Hunters who tortured her, not Satanists!

Tate expanded on Laura's 'suffering' as evidence of the existence of SRA in his deplorable book, Children for the Devil, but you would never have got to know that it was all entirely false had the SAFF not published her full story here: http://saff.nfshost.com/childrenforthedevil.htm (scroll down the page to 'LAURA'S STORY' ) Tate should be rushing to apologise and correct his misuse of her story, but it appears he is more interested in criticising David Aaronvitch. For his part if David Aaronovitch had liased with the SAFF he could have put these points to Tate in his interview.

Others wrote to the BBC Trust to make an official complaint. One was Dr Sue Hampson, who runs Safe To Say Training which is headquartered in Edinburgh (EH3), and specialises in training officials in the Scottish child-care system. Her Website boasts she will:

Build staff capacity and quality of response to adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) within existing agencies.

Train front-line staff in all sectors to be more confident in dealing with adult survivors who disclose CSA and

Train supervisors and managers supporting staff working with disclosures.

Raise staff awareness of the challenges parent survivors may face.

On this page: https://safetosay.co.uk/training/ you can also see a list of testimonials from Early Years centres, Victim Support Staff, North Ayrshire Social Care Team, Health and Community Staff in Edinburgh and many more Scottish groups and people who presumably may equally be taught that Satanic Ritual Abuse exists and is a problem?

Sue Hampson's complaint about Aaronovitch's programme was also carried on the Izzy's Promise website alongside Sarah Nelson's. As you can see Aaronovitch was under concerted attack from key players in the SRA believers' camp.

He replied to these Satan Hunters in no uncertain terms, in a widely read legal blog which you can read here: which speaks for itself.

Eventually the BBC tribunal came to its long-awaited decision which was to entirely support everything David Aaronovitch had done in Anatomy of a Panic and reject the complaints and appeals of Tate, Nelson and Hampson. In England at any rate the Satan Hunters had lost that round

The Anglo-Scots SRA Believers' Axis.

So from 2009 whilst the English courts and Police were dealing with an avalanche of false allegations related to VIP abuse the exact same thing was occurring in Scotland in a kind of separate goldfish bowl. The local Scots didn't appear to make the connection with what was ongoing south of the border. Almost all of it was sourced to the works of RAIN's members and supporters. None of it had any basis in fact. There was no evidence to support any SRA claims. Just as there has never been any evidence to prove the idea of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse.

By this time Robert Green and those pushing the false Hampstead SRA allegations on the internet were swapping information and giving each other support.

One of the main players in the false Hampstead SRA allegations, which had motivated David Aaronovitch to look into this madness, was the activities of Belinda McKenzie. The photograph above shows McKenzie standing with Robert Green during a protest in front of a British Court proving the link between false claims in Scotland and false claims of SRA in England and elsewhere.

Her later trial for contempt in the case of Sabine McNeill (another key promoter of the Hampstead lies) is covered in this detailed analysis here: https: hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/belinda-mckenzie-trial-11-january-2019/ The police arrested McKenzie from the public Gallery in court after she was found uploading information to her SRA supporters on the internet. The McNeill trial ended with Sabine McNeill being sentenced to 9 years in prison for stalking and other offences related to false claims of SRA.

Robert Green's connections with Joan Coleman and her English coterie of RAINS Satan Hunters cannot be refuted. When Coleman died in 2018 Green wrote a glowing 'official obituary' of 'his colleague' and her SRA exploits. He concluded how history will eventually prove her right about SRA (!)

Green explained how he had been in constant contact with her and had obtained the Helen G list directly from her. He was obsequious about his and her conjoined belief in Satanic Ritual Abuse. This was one of the last things Green did, for he himself died on 11th April 2019 after a short illness.

Furthermore, in an attempt to influence Operation Conifer (the much criticised Wiltshire police investigation into Edward Heath) Green said he had contacted Mike Veale (the then Chief Constable of Wiltshire) who was running the inquiry. Green claimed he had sent Veale a copy of Coleman's Helen G List sometime in early 2017 along with ancillary information on SRA. Green wrote as though he was in regular correspondence with Veale but the true nature of their contact has yet to be understood, as has the effect it might have had on the police inquiry itself.

The conspiracy of activity of Coleman, Green and other Satan Hunters in pressing false claims of satanic abuse is completely ignored by police and the courts as though they are cranks. The real danger to society and the negative effects on the functioning of Justice is ignored. Paltry sentences are given to SRA vigilante troublemakers and this encourages them to go further.

It is only when, after being enthused to become Martyrs by the very system they are wanting to destroy, which continually slaps their hands instead of cuffing them, they gain strength and infamy amongst their clique with every arrest. They wear ASBOs as badges of pride, and can go on to commit really dangerous acts of spiritual terrorism such as the fundamentalist SRA hunter gang which kidnapped an 8 year old child at knifepoint and tried to spirit him away into Europe, never to be seen again.

Wilfred Wong, the fundamentalist ring-leader of this kidnap gang had spent three decades prior to his criminal acts promoting the idea of SRA including working with RAINS, until armed police caught him in a motorway chase and the courts banged him up for 19 years (full story here http://saff.nfshost.com/wilfredwongkidnap.htm)

The authorities never take SRA hunters seriously until they've spent years infecting other sectarian extremists with the same nonsense who then constantly enlarge the pool of unreality. There is therefore nothing to dissuade these Satan Hunters from their mania. Because of that they have continued to thrive and do their worst over three decades.

Robert Green stated that he was contacted by Coleman after his imprisonment for Breach of the Peace in Aberdeen prison (Craiginches) in 2012 (where he had been incarcerated for stalking and harassing many falsely accused people and VIPs) but there is evidence that Coleman was already in contact with the Hollie Greig lobby as early as 2011 for at that time the RAINS supremo was contributing articles on Satanic Abuse to Carl Sims magazine 'Namaste'.

Coleman's article 'Satanic Ritual Abuse' (see image ) contained defamatory lies about people involved in the first-wave of the 1990 panic but Sims refused to remove the untruths, declaring his absolute belief that SRA existed and that Coleman knew what she was talking about. Coleman makes many false assumptions and statements of unfact in her article, which had appeared earlier in RAINS literature before Namaste republished it, but one section is of particular interest where she writes:

'Some courageous journalists such as Tim Tate, Bea Campbell, Sarah Nelson and Jean Rafferty have tried to expose ritual abuse but they are a minority...

Clearly admitting to the conspiratorial links behind the scenes. Sims was a major player in the Hollie Greig clique. He worked with Green and is rumoured to have had a relationship with Hollie's mother Anne Greig.

Is it just by chance that this coterie of Satan Hunters coalesced around Aberdeen? Many of Hollie Greig's supporters lived in and around Stonehaven, a coastal village 9 miles south of Aberdeen. Most of his victims lived in or around Aberdeen. Note that a crucial early Scottish Satan Seminar had been held in Aberdeen in 1989, with Maureen Davies, director of Reachout Trust, speaking.

There was a follow-up Satan seminar in Aberdeen a year later which influenced the Orkney SRA case. Did Green attend either of those lectures by Reachout we wonder?

The Reachout Gang of Fundamentalist Troublemakers

These early Satan Seminars were set up by Christian Fundamentalist vigilantes, prominent amongst which was the Reachout Trust . Anyone from the local Christian community was invited to come to listen. This included Christian social workers, Christian policemen and women, Christian doctors and plain old bible-thumpers. Once established, there was a cross-over with 'professional' secular conferences of social workers and child charities where Maureen Davies would speak as an 'expert' on SRA.

Maureen Davies was an advisor to Tim Tate's Cook Report, The Devil's Work. She also handled the 'help-lines' after the programme. Yet she was first and foremost a director of the Christian fundamentalist group Reachout Trust. Audrey Harper, who also appeared in Tate's The Devil's Work, is a fundamentalist bible-thumper and another director of Reachout Trust, though the Cook Report never told viewers that when interviewing her on camera. Her false allegation about all Witches being Lesbians and Satanists being homosexuals, sort of gave it away.

Rev. Kevin Logan, a fundamentalist Anglican vicar, was also a director and speaker for Reachout. Later he would campaign against Sunday trading and got arrested for vandalising a supermarket Sunday opening banner.

In March 1987 Logan announced the results of a thoroughly duplicitous research he had undertaken by sending questionnaires out to fourth formers in Church of England schools asking for responses to their leisure interests. Discounting the fact that most 5th formers would simply have fun lying, in Logan's questionnaire an interest in such things as 'Heavy Metal or Rock Music' or 'Meditation'' or 'Yoga' was interpreted as involvement in 'Occultism'. By this duplicitous method he was then able to claim that he had statistics to prove that 87% of children had some form of contact with the Occult and were in danger from it!

On 15 March 1988 Logan's campaign against the Occult had become so influential that Geoffrey Dickens MP quoted Logan's faux 87% statistic in the House of Commons to convince other MPs that there was a threat to children from Witches and Satanists!

His disinformation was also covered elsewhere, on LBC radio etc. Lord David Alton mentioned it in his column in the Catholic Universe. " A recent survey found that 87 percent of young people in Britain admitted to dabbling in the occult before the age of 14. So what has triggered such a disturbing and ominous trend?"

Yet the statistic was meaningless. Just because 14 year olds have a passing interest in magical things, mostly generated by the mainstream media which pushes Harry Potter and Superhero images as well as promoting children's books on The Worst Witch etc, it does not mean that they are on a descent into Hell!

Later in 1988 Logan took it upon himself to challenge the growing interest in Paganism, ( a newly reconstructed religion for modern times ). He wrote a book Paganism and The Occult which was his polemic against the 'dangers' of Paganism and Witchcraft. The book was an appalling collection of trite suspicions, illogical conclusions and unsafe assumptions which were used to bad-mouth Neo-Paganism and defame it in the eyes of outsiders. As such, today it would be seen as what it was, sectarian hatred.

One notable point is that Logan had unfairly singled out The Sorcerer's Apprentice bookshop in Leeds for criticism in his book. In fact references to the Sorcerer's Apprentice were replete within it to the exclusion of other sources. Readers may remember that Roger Cook falsely accused the owner of the Sorcerer's Apprentice bookshop in The Devil's Work and used Logan as a source whilst filming him in the documentary.

Logan was also involved in attempting to erect a giant crucifix on top of Pendle Hill in Lancashire (more on Pendle later) , and was not averse to dissembling over SRA when on 19 March 1990 he gave an interview on Satanic Abuse to LBC radio in which he claimed that the NSPCC had evidence of children being sacrificed in Satanism. Clearly that was a dastardly untruth which the NSPCC itself denied.

Logan and Reachout Jumped on the Rochdale Case Bandwagon.

The Rochdale SRA case broke three months later in May 1990. By September that year, even though it was becoming abundantly clear that there were big problems with the Rochdale claims, Logan was still banging his SRA drum. See 'Dark Shadows' cutting above).

The police finally concluded their investigation into Rochdale saying that there was no proof of Satanic Child abuse there, In March 1991.

Until then speculation was rife and Logan with other Reachout activists were making hay with defamatory publicity against Pagans and Satanists. The Sunday Telegraph article Dark Shadows that Hang Over Rochdale's Children shown above, features Logan pushing the idea that there was some SRA activity in the Rochdale case. This was just one of many similar articles and interviews Logan and Reachout activists gave at the time all over the country.

On 14th March 1991 Logan and Reachout director Audrey Harper, together created scaremongering publicity about Witches in Burnley. ( only 15 miles away from Rochdale). The Pendle Citizen; newspaper, with the headline: 'DANGER ZONE - Former Witch says Pendle is a centre for the occult.'

Harper claims to have been a witch who converted to Christianity. (a claim we very much doubt going by our review of her life story and her abject ignorance of Witchcraft tradition and liturgy. After all, she thinks they kill and eat babies! You can read about ' Dance with the Devil' here: http://saff.nfshost.com/audreyharper.htm )

In the DANGER ZONE newspaper article Harper tells tall tales of witchcraft and Satanism based casually on the historic Lancashire Witch Trials of 1612 in which the brooding bulk of Pendle Hill featured and which has been used for years as a tourist draw by 'witchy' gift shops in Sabden, Lancs .

Who has not heard of the dreaded Pendle Witches; Demdike and Chattox? Yet the Pendle Witches ( executed 1612) were NOT Witches at all. They were recussant Catholics persecuted following the Reign of Queen Mary. During her tenure Bloody Mary had tried to reverse Protestantism in England using terrible tortures on the Protestant population to do it, but after Elizabeth I took the throne the tables were turned and recusant Catholics were persecuted instead. This created quite a few 'Witch Trials' which did not involve Pagans or witches but did involve Catholic dissenters and there are monuments to Catholic Martyrs who were killed for their faith all over England at this time.

Audrey Harper blames Witches in Pendle because she is an ignorant sectarian bigot. Nowhere is this more evident than when you realise the Reachout Trust was pushing these evil lies whilst the Rochdale Satanic Abuse Case was ongoing at the time, just 15 miles away from Pendle, without any empathy with the children taken into care or the parents fighting for their innocence!

On the 11th March 1991, three days earlier, Rochdale Police had concluded that there was absolutely no evidence of Satanic Abuse in the Rochdale case or anywhere else in England and Wales . The Pendle Citizen's shock-horror piece on imaginary threats of Satanic Abuse in Lancashire was probably being penned by journalist Kirsten Stokes at the very moment that the Police officially concluded SRA didn't exist!

Yet Tim Tate has the gall to deny in his 1989 interview with Radio Leeds that The Cook Report was not part of a fundamentalist Christian conspiracy! He probably means HE wasn't a conscious part of it - he just let them do their worst, good telly eh?

Satanic Ritual Abuse was the biggest sectarian con-trick in history.

The first 'SRA Survivors' were in fact adult Christian activists witnessing to God about the existence of Devil Worship in today's world. Soon these sectarian liars who often had a back story of street-preaching were appearing on the podiums at 'official' satan seminars at which ordinary Christian social workers and police attended and 'learned' of the existence of SRA. The sectarian malice of the fundie extremists was hidden behind a veneer of scientific and psychiatric authority and sucked-in by shocked nominal Christians. I mean, they're Christians, why would these people lie?

The malefic fundamentalist influence on Scottish SRA cases...

This is of course exactly what happened in the Orkney case but so few people actually know the details. It is as though it has been hidden from the public for decades. Today the SAFF outlines it all and reveals what really happened below and you will be shocked to see how the UK Justice System could be so easily corrupted.

A group of evangelical activists primed Orkney with the Satanic Ritual Child Abuse Myth several months BEFORE the first Ronaldsay case occurred.

There is absolutely no doubt that this priming was part of the hysteria generating activities of the wicked Reachout Trust.

The cutting above clearly proves that the seed hysteria about the existence of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse on Orkney was learned by the Baptist Minister Francis Gordon who had attended Reachout Trust's second Satan Seminar at on SRA at Aberdeen University in 1990.

There is a direct correlation between the evolution and generation of the Satan Myth in Scotland and that Aberdeen seminar. See proof in the rare news report, and the associated Timeline in the rightmost column (see the Timeline in the rightmost column here: http://saff.nfshost.com/glasgow.htm
It’s too big for Substack.

Christian activists who stir the pot are a component part of every SRA case the SAFF has investigated and indeed the Glasgow case is no exception for an active church worker was the key witness relating to claims of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse.

How the fundies hi-jacked child-protection in Orkney

Elsewhere on this web-page we relate Christian extremist Maureen Davies' involvement in the Orkney and Rochdale scandals, in particular the crucial part she played in injecting false SRA claims into Scotland through the Aberdeen Seminar she held in November 1990 at which fundamentalists from Orkney attended to learn how to diagnose SRA in children and adults.

Frances Gordon a leading evangelist and member of the Baptist Orkney Christian Fellowship, travelled to Aberdeen to attend Davies' Satan Seminar. As well as the fundamentalist contingent, 100 clerics and social workers attended the seminar which took place in Aberdeen University's lecture theatre. The crucial influence of OCF on the SRA hysteria in Orkney will be discussed below.

Watch the dates! The family at the core of the Orkney scandal was Family 'W' involving 7 children who had been overseen by the Orkney Social Services as far back as the early 1980s. The original allegations were that their father physically abused them and he was imprisoned for it in 1986. No mention of sexual or Satanic Abuse was involved at that time.

Once in the hands of Orkney SS the kids were interrogated constantly by social workers until claims of 'conventional' sexual abuse occurred and their father was found guilty of incest in 1987, long before SRA became the latest thing in social work circles.

After the successful prosecution, and with the father out of the way, there were recommendations for the children to then be returned to their mother. A Case Conference was held by Orkney SS on 17th.July 1989 (the day the NSPCC issued their press report confirming the existence of SRA in the UK).

The lobby of SRA believers in Orkney social services for some strange reason deliberately opposed the decision to return the children to their mother (The Times: 15th February 1993 ) and instead, social workers then redoubled their efforts to find SRA in the case, subjecting the children to intensive ‘disclosure therapy'.

Sample of Media Headlines resulting from NSPCC Presser on SRA

The Times:: NSPCC says ritual child abuse is rife;
The Independent: Children abused in bizarre sex rituals

The Guardian : NSPCC uncovers 'satanic' abuse

Independent: A satanic litany of children's suffering;

Newcastle Journal: Helplines Set up for Child Occult Victims.

South Wales Argus. Christian Crusade At Satanic Threat

Evangelical Maazine: The Nightmare We Refuse To Believe

Western Mail: Church War on Satanic Plan

Yorkshire Evening Post: Devil Worshippers: Dossier of Horror Stories.

From the Clyde Inquiry it seems that it was at this point that the clique of Social Workers in Orkney began to impose their beliefs about Satanic Paedophile Rings onto what had been a 'regular' case of physical and sexual family abuse.

This is pretty good evidence to show that the UK wide hysteria generated by the NSPCC's fateful July 17 Press Conference, helped create the Orkney SRA case.

Prior to July 17th 1989, claims of SRA had been prominent in the tabloid media but treated cursorily by the Authorities. Within social work circles it was seen as 'the latest thing' and child protectionists had been secretly on the warpath over SRA since the Broxtowe Case in 1987.

On July 17th all that altered for the NSPCC held it's London press conference on SRA declaring that 7 of its 66 child protection teams were dealing with cases of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse in the UK. At 9pm that evening the Cook Report just happened to broadcast its long-heralded documentary exposing Satanic Ritual Child Abuse to 11 million viewers across the UK and that day and for the rest of the week newspapers across the UK were carrying wall-to-wall banner headlines about Satanic Ritual Child Abuse being a threat to all British children.

This NSPCC Press Release was crucial to the start of the Satanic Panic in the U.K. We have reproduced the Press Association's official report of it in full in the rightmost column here. But the actual Press Release sent to newspapers was far more shocking, originally involving claims of babies being sacrificed in Microwave Ovens! A claim which was quickly deleted. However other shocking claims of Satanic Abuse were transmitted across the land and were on everyone's lips.

Of course we now know that this was untrue and that the NSPCC had no firm evidence of the existence of SRA and they themselves redacted any mention of Microwave Ovens.

The NSPCC's actual 'research' on SRA amounted to sending out tick-box questionnaires to their 66 branches asking them if any of the 'Satanic Indicators' were present in cases they were dealing with.

Six branches replied saying they had some cases which had 'signs' that SRA might have occurred ; and that is all the NSPCC needed to jump on the SRA bandwagon and start a national panic.

We still do not know how these 'signs' were defined but they are likely to have involved 'indicators' invented by radical feminist witch-hunters in the US which had been recently imported and which included so many things that ordinary kids did as part of growing up that it virtually guaranteed almost any child would come out with a high 'Satanic Abuse score' and be taken into care! Ridiculous things; such as making farting noises and laughing; or pulling off the arms of dolls ( see Indicator list above.)

Later the NSPCC had to publicly apologise for making such sensational statements on such trivial evidence but this illustrates that a hard-core of SRA believers in child-care throughout the country, who had been networking with each other about SRA were chomping at the bit to be the first to expose this shocking (if imaginary) threat to children.

What was it that had convinced the Orkney SS team that the W family were involved in a Satanic Ritual Abuse ring? Why did they get caught up in the hysteria at exactly the same time that the NSPCC announced it?

Look at the timeline! It followed a year long tsunami of false claims at Satan Seminars throughout the UK and in Scotland, at which RAINS and Reachout Trust combined their poisonous lies.

The public didn't see this campaign as the seminars were all closed-shop events to indoctrinate social workers, police and medics to be on the look-out for SRA, but SAFF did. The entire social work industry was chomping at the bit to hunt down imagined Satanic Abusers and it was the NSPCC which fired the starter gun.

There had been FIVE conferences on SRA in the first seven months of 1989. The first one in Aberdeen was in October 1989 but there was one a month earlier in Devil Town (Dundee). organised by Norma Howes & Pamela Klein (two early crusaders who pushed the idea of SRA). Ms Klein was the one whose Expertise on 'Satanic Abuse' was subsequently dismissed by a Judge in a Trial in the U.S.A. in 1991. The judge declared that Klein was 'not a legitimate therapist'.

She wasn't but earlier that year she involved herself in the British Epping SRA Case which made headlines across the press but turned out to be so palpably weak that it was thrown out by the judge when it got into court - all the evidence was utterly unreliable! No change there then.

Howes and Klein organised the conference on Satanic Ritual Child Abuse in Dundee in Sept 1989 at which Maureen Davies, another infamous pusher of the SRAmyth, was also invited to Dundee to help.

Davies arranged for David Woodhouse from Ellel Grange to give a 'Christian presentation' of the Satanic Abuse 'problem'. Ellel Grange is a wealthy Christian fundamentalist group which specialises in de-programming and identifying SRA victims from people who go to them for help with 'regular' mental vulnerabilities.

They have produced some notable SRA victim-iimposters They were responsible for convincing poor Louise Etherington to falsley claim on camera that she had satanically sacrificed her new-born baby in a channel 4 documentary called Beyond Belief (see here for details) but Etherington's false claims were soon debunked by national newspapers days afterwards (see illustration). She was just another pawn in the hands of the sectarians pushing the SRA myth.

As you can see God's warriors could be found tilling fertile ground in Scotland and were heavily invested in injecting their sectarian poison into the country during 1989, and probably well before that, for the threat of SRA was first announced by Geoffrey Dickens MP in the House of Commons in April 1988. He had been 'conditioned' into believing SRA existed by the same clique of Satan Hunters from The Reachout Trust and Childwatch, child protection group. The Daily Mail reporter found Dickens' initial allegations in the House to be so far-out he reported it with amusement, little realising how deadly and serious this first-shot in the fundamentalist campaign to persecute Pagans actually was, nor that it would create a witch-hunt that would still be ongoing in Glasgow 37 years later.

This tsunami of allegations about SRA in the summer of 1989 , ignited by the NSPCC's rubber-stamping of the reality of SRA, created hyper-vigilance in Social workers. Is this why they then subjected all the Orkney children to further intensive ‘disclosure therapy', securing another half-dozen vague statements about abuse to keep the pot boiling?

The social workers in Orkney were scheduled to return the children to their mother in July 1989 and the Orkney Childrens' Panel appeared to think there was no real impediment to doing so, but the social workers involved became locked in a long-running dispute with the Childrens' Panel concerning further assessment at home, and on 31st. October 1990, the day before supervision orders on the children were to be revoked, they found a 'new' reason to take the children into care......the RSSPCC interviewers secured from three of the W children, during more than a hundred hours of ‘disclosure therapy' nine more children's names whom they indicated had been Satanically Abused and this lead to dawn lifts of the other 9 kids, and their parents being falsely accused of ritual child sexual abuse.

So the social workers, who had been convinced that Satanic Ritual Child Abuse existed on the island following a heightened hysteria about the possibility of Satanic Abuse by the activities of RAINS, the Reachout Trust and backed by the NSPCC, saw the W family as a classic case of SRA even though they had been in their care since the early 1980s without a single mention of ritual, Satanism, the occult, or witchcraft! Obviously something was seriously wrong in the Orkney Social Services department. How wrong it all was played out over the next few months.

Let's recap: At the precise time that the NSPCC backed the Cook Report and ignited the Satanic Panic the SRA hunters in Orkney conflicted with the Orkney Childrens' Panel and refused to send the W children home. Instead they repetitively interrogated them for over 100 hours until the W children came out with bizarre fantasies which the Orkney SS Satan Hunters believed to be indications of SRA and which nicely incriminated other innocent families on Orkney, who just happened to be the exact ones who had tried to defend the Mother of the W family from previous unfair social services persecution.

In short the Satanic Ritual Abuse claims in Orkney began in July 1989 right at the start of the Satanic Panic.

A month later in October 1989 Reachout Trust held their first Satan Seminar in Aberdeen.
Maureen Davies gave a Lecture on Satanic Ritual Abuse to the Church of Scotland Study Group in Edinburgh. This was a networking opportunity for Reachout to open doors in Scottish fundamentalist and church circles by posing as an ‘expert’ on SRA.

In October 1990 she attended the second Satan Seminar that was designed to promote SRA in the minds of Scottish social workers, this time in Aberdeen.

Charles Fraser who worked as a social worker on the W case was a member of the Orkney Christian Fellowship and was involved in the lifting of child SW from the W family in November 1990. The mother of SW had taken him to the Manse where Fraser traced them and so he went there to take SW into care. The Reverend Morris McKenzie who lived at the Manse was not there but his wife said she could not let Fraser and a policeman in to get SW as 'the lock had jammed'. Effectively child SW was given 'sanctuary' from the Orkney SS.

As the false SRA allegations ran wild following the children being taken into care, Reverend McKenzie just happened to become one of those falsely accused at the centre of the accusations of Satanic Rituals. How convenient for believers and Orkney Social Services department!

The Satan hunters in the Orkney social work department were scheduled to return the children to their mother in July 1989, the social workers involved became locked in a long-running dispute with the Children's Panel concerning further assessment at home, and on 31st. October 1990 (co-incidentally at Halloween!), the day before supervision orders on the children were to be revoked, they found a 'new' reason to take the children into care......the RSSPCC interviewers secured from three of the W children, during more than a hundred hours of ‘disclosure therapy', nine more children's names whom they indicated had been Satanically Abused. Orkney Social Workers said the kids had said that Reverand McKenzie conducted ritual dances in black robes in a quarry and then Satanically abused them after hooking them with a Crook. (sigh)

This was of course completely untrue but it seemed that anyone who contradicted the obsessive believers in SRA in Orkney SS soon became denounced as a suspected Satanic Abuser.

When Charles Fraser was questioned about his involvement with the evangelical Christian lobby he told the Clyde Inquiry:

'Mr Charlie Fraser experienced some publicity in respect of his own religious beliefs which sought to present him as a Christian zealot fighting Satanism which did not accurately represent the character of the alleged abuse nor his own individual attitude to it.

A more complete story of Charlies Fraser's membership of the Orkney Christian Fellowship and one of it's prime movers, Baptist minister Frances Gordon's trip to learn about Satanic Ritual Abuse at the 1990 Aberdeen conference, appeared in the Sunday Times 17 March 1991.

A sub-article by Stewart Lamont inset on the same page covered the fundamentalist history of Orkney together with an account of the internecine conflicts there between the Church of Scotland and the torrid Christian fundamentalist activity then competing for souls. The impression given was that Christian sects on the Island appeared to be outbidding each other in their piety to the Lord.

Journalists John Rowland and Stewart Lamont, tried to interview Charles Fraser but 'Fraser was not available for comment'. However Francis Gordon was located and told the Times:

“I went [ to the satan seminar in Aberdeen ] because it is something that is coming more and more into the headlines. If it was going to cross my path, I wanted to know what was being said, so I went.”

'Gordon left his church in Kirkwall, the island’s largest town, to join more than 100 clerics and social workers in an Aberdeen university lecture theatre. Together they sat through two days of lectures given by Maureen Davies, a fundamentalist Christian and self-appointed “expert” on ritual and Satanic Abuse.

'Davies, described by critics as the founder of the “British Inquisition”, was in Aberdeen to spread her vision of satanic abuse which she believes is rampant in Britain. Gordon listened as Davies talked about “Satanic Indicators” among children which, she says, are sure signs of abuse'

This could have only been the same 'list of Satanic indicators' which were passed to the Team 4 in the Broxtowe Case and distributed amongst SRA believers.

The Rousay Mass exorcism of Children

Four months earlier, in the summer, before Francis Gordon attended that fateful Aberdeen Satan Seminar, he was involved in helping to organise a ' children's camp' on the Orkney Island of Rousay for 40 youngsters, aged 11 to 13, which went radically wrong when fundamentalist Baptist preachers tried to exorcise children and subjected them to mass hypnosis prayer sessions, talking in tongues and other extreme fundamentalist methods which caused some kids to collapse, suffer permanent trauma and recurrent nightmares. When the children got home they told their parents who complained officially to the police and an investigation into what happened began.

'It is alleged that children returned from Rousay frightened and withdrawn. Parents reported personality changes which in some cases required psychiatric treatment and counselling by orthodox Church of Scotland clergy. Trevor Hunt, Church of Scotland minister for the parishes of Evie, Rendall and Firth, said: “There seem to be satanic things under every stone, and that would fit in with how these charismatic groups behave.”

H. Sprange, a Baptist minister from Dunbar lead bible classes at the Rousay camp. When the children returned home, they told parents the full story of what happened in classes lead by Sprange. They alleged that classmates:

• 'Fainted as Sprange preached to them;
  

• Fell into trances under hypnosis induced by Sprange;

• Fled the Rousay schoolroom in fear as other children collapsed around them;

• Suffered nightmares about Hell and Satan;.

• Watched as Sprange spoke in unintelligible languages, which he later explained was “talking in tongues”, a form of prophecy which extreme evangelicals believe is a form of divine intervention.

This cult-like mind-control was clearly genuine ritual child-abuse but the police investigation resulted in no prosecutions. Despite this being clear evidence of the mass hysteria over Satanic Ritual Abuse which had been created in England and imported into Scotland by Reachout, RAINS etc. the police refused to prosecute any churchman for psychologically torturing the children. In other words the police tacitly encouraged belief in SRA.

Even more strangely no mention of the effects and influence of the Rousay summer camp bible ceremonies was made by the Orkney Social Services. Why? There can't have been a resident of Orkney who did not know what had happened. The scandal was known across the Islands, the 40 children would have told their schoolmates. Maybe the W children had soaked-up their fantasies about Witchcraft and the occult from such tales and this might have easily corrupted their memories or imagination? Wouldn’t this affect their imaginations and memories of witchy and occult things? Perhaps in 100 hours of questioning they simply replayed some of what had gone on at the Summer Camp?

But as usual, the fundies were given a quick pass. They were Christians! They meant well didn't they? Why would they be he cause of any harm? Why indeed.

The Orkney SS eventually roped in poor old Reverend McKenzie as a Satanic abuser for allegedly dancing about singing in his surplice and using a ceremonial Crook to corral the children?

In his evidence to the Clyde Inquiry Charles Fraser implied that his evangelical view of the world and the activities of his group the Orkney Christian Fellowship did not play into a belief in the Orkneys that SRA existed.

Wasn't the false implication of the Church of Scotland's Reverend McKenzie suspicious for a start? In a climate where rival churches were apparently conflicting and competing for authenticity and souls in a market as small as the population of Orkney. According to the Times report there was animosity between some Christians on Orkney. In a report from the Daily Telegraph on 17 September 1991 Fraser was quoted saying:

'Asked what the police were looking for, Mr Charles Fraser, a social worker, replied: "Anything related to the case, to the allegations... clothing, symbols of abuse a cloak, a crook, that sort of thing."

But when giving evidence in the Clyde report Constable MacLaren said about the lifting of the H children and how the police searched their home, Mrs H went upstairs with WPC MacLaren and dressed. Constable MacLaren came upon some horror novels in the bedroom but did not remove them. She had been instructed to look at any books relating to unusual practices. [6.28]

This sort of hyper-vigilance is how a Dennis Wheatley Novel became 'evidence' of Satanic Ritual Abuse in Orkney. A fictional novel about witchcraft which had sold in the millions of copies to anyone who liked a good story was held as being sufficient evidence of Satanic Abuse to incriminate an innocent person !

I mean, did they really think that these shocking exorcism rites and talk of the Devil at the children's camp did not get broadcast across all schoolchildrens' minds in the relatively tiny community in Orkney? Did they not think it was a useful source of gossip for those pious Christians in the various churches?

Did this fundamentalist generated fear also become fixated in the imaginations of the W children and the other 9 kids taken into care? It certainly seems to have penetrated into the minds of the Orkney Police.

Clearly the Satanic Panic, which first began in the Baptist and charismatic evangelical churches of the U.S. was having an impact on the small population of Orkney at the precise time that the W case was being turned from an 'ordinary' case of abuse into a case of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse, yet astonishingly none of this came out in the Clyde Inquiry.

The inquiry into the 1990 Ayrshire SRA case found that Social Workers worked-up Satanic content by indoctrinating children they believed were at risk, see cutting above. For a time two key social workers on the case, June Gardiner and Lyn Gilmour were under investigation because of errors of judgement.

This progression can be seen in ALL the key cases, Orkney, Ayr, Lewis, Rochdale, Nottingham, Epping etc. Find a case of suspected 'regular' abuse in one family, snatch the children, interrogate them until they accidentally fantasise some bizarre things and then use that to incriminate neighbour's and extended family for the SRA inquisition. This is precisely what happened during the witch-trials of the 14th and 15th centuries.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' - Santayana

Of course it was all hyper-vigilance from a clique driven by feminist ideology to confirm their worst fears. During the 35 years of the SRA myth, there has not been a single case of SRA successfully prosecuted through the courts in Britain.

From these early false SRA cases believers in RAINS developed their 'Demonology' of SRA and began teaching it and distributing it to every other hyper-vigilant social worker who listened. The lies RAINS promoted are virtually endless. The SAFF has a list of all the Satan Seminars and SRA conferences held during the 1990s and there were dozens of them, all across the UK and plenty of them in Scotland. In Dundee, In Aberdeen, in Edinburgh, in Clwyd, in Reading, in Birmingham, Nottingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Birkenhead, London, Harrow, Harrogate, Bolton, York, Sheffield, and many, many more.

RAINS ever present, influencers of Academe and Lynch-mob vigilanties.

Joan Coleman was the psychiatrist who had in 1988 jumped on the embryonic 1990 Satanic Panic and inaugurated RAINS (The Ritual Abuse Information Network Services ) along with Valerie Sinason and several other key players, to act as a dissemination point for the promotion of the idea of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse across therapy, psychiatry, police, NHS, Social Services and Media.

RAINS' opinion was inevitably sought and quoted in numerous articles and interviews during 1988-1990 until the cases they had supported began to collapse. RAINS members were irrevocably involved in every single case of claimed SRA in this country during the Satanic Panic, but not one of their claimed cases turned out to be true. Not one of them was proven. Not one of them was successfully prosecuted through the courts.

Even so, RAINS became a highly influential hub of ideas, falsehoods and impromptu validation which kept the myth of SRA simmering for years even after the governments' 1994 La Fontaine report which, after having had access to ALL records and video interviews of the children in the claimed cases involving 86 children across the UK, had concluded that there was no Satanic Ritual Abuse in any of the cases which occurred during the Satanic Panic and which Coleman and RAINS had backed.

Here, courtesy of the SAFFutube channel you can hear Coleman trying to refute the conclusions of Professor La Fontaine's report even though it had been fully accepted by the government. There was no such thing as Satanic Ritual Child Abuse it said, but by 1994 RAINS had pinned its colours to the mast of a sinking ship and could not abandon it. Best to simply carry on saying black is white. I mean, who would ever challenge them? They only have the best interests of children at heart you know.

The Scottish and English judiciary, and their respective police forces were obviously ignorant of the actual networking going on, not only between English and Scottish SRA activists and the Scottish scion of RAINS (RANS) but also between them and even dafter SRA hunters in the U.S. They were being played like the proverbial fiddle In short, the situation in Scotland was largely created by the very same clique of believers who started the 1990 Satanic Panic in the U.S. and then the U.K. and it is still going on today.

Spurred on by the controversy over the Glasgow 2025 SRA case it is only a matter of time before these SRA hunters create more false cases in Scotland, which will also fail and bring the Scottish courts and police into disrepute. At that point maybe even the Scottish people will begin to see they're being made fools of.


By Tony Rhodes and John Freedom, Imbolc 2025.