Roger Gleaves

Roger Charles GLEAVES, nicknamed “'The Bishop of Medway”. Member of PIE, Gleaves was a homosexual pederast who posed as a social worker and vicar to get put in a position of care.

Ran Criminal Organization with Government Funding

Gleaves got his first conviction for pederast offences as early as 1959. In 1966 he was exposed by the Sunday People newspaper for posing as a clergyman, the “Rt Rev Roger Gleaves”. Nevertheless he carried on to set up a chain of hostels for 2360 homeless men and boys in London. He registered with the Charities Commission and got money from government departments and local councils. In 1971 he got a two-year suspended sentence for an offence involving a 14-year-old boy.

In 1974 police investigating the murder of Billy McPhee (McFee) questioned hostel inmates and uncovered a lot more similar allegations. Billy, known as “Two-Tone Billy” because he dyed half his dark hair blond, came to London in 1969 aged 14 and found shelter in one of the hostels run by Gleaves, where inmates were assaulted and used as rent-boys. McPhee was the subject of a 2-part TV documentary “Johnny Go Home” (1975). Gleaves is interviewed in the film and talks openly about how he picked up lads at railway stations, why he wore his bizarre uniform, etc. At the age of nineteen Billy was murdered by three hostel employees, David Johnson, Philip Holland and Michael Woodland, because he knew the whereabouts of a man wanted by police. They caught up with Billy on the London-Brighton road near Crawley, brutally tortured him until he gave them the man's Brighton address, then stabbed him to death in a lay-by. Police found 20 stab wounds on the battered body. The three murderers were given life sentences. Gleaves received a sentence of four years for buggery and causing actual bodily harm. But when he got out, after two years, he went back to running his six “hostels”.

In 1975, Norman Fowler MP asked a question in the House of Commons about how it was possible for Gleaves, a pederast with a long criminal record to secure government and council funding for three charities and his hostels, to which agencies referred under-16s. In 1988, Gleaves was convicted again for the rape, attempted rape, and indecent assault of two 14 yr old boys at one of his hostels. He was sentenced to 15 years, but did not serve the full term and was convicted again of a similar offence in 1998. Gleaves carried out some of the assaults in company with another homosexual called Richard Becker who knew himself to be HIV positive. They lied to the boys, telling them they were going to special first aid class. Becker was gaoled for six years in February 1998. Gleaves is thought to have connections with a pedophile ring in Picadilly run by Hornby.

Legal Action against UK Government

After leaving the Albany prison, Gleaves brought a legal case against the UK government saying that the lack of 24-hour toilet facilities and use of a chamber pot violated his human rights. He got £50,000 legal aid, paid for by the tax-payer. The British High Court rejected his case in 2012, but only after it had cost the public millions of pounds.

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