58 Facts About Greville Janner

Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, was a British politician, barrister and writer.

Greville Janner became a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leicester in the 1970 general election as a last-minute candidate, succeeding his father.

Greville Janner was an MP until 1997, and then elevated to the House of Lords.

Never a frontbencher, Janner was particularly known for his work on Select Committees; he chaired the Select Committee on Employment for a time.

Greville Janner was associated with a number of Jewish organisations including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, of which he was chairman from 1978 to 1984, and was later prominent in the field of education about the Holocaust.

Criminal proceedings brought in 2015 were halted by his death in December of that year; claims made against his estate were all dropped by May 2017, with Greville Janner's family calling the claimants "false accusers" afraid of cross-examination.

Greville Janner was born in Cardiff, Wales, to Lithuanian Jewish parents, the son of Barnett Greville Janner and Elsie Sybil, nee Cohen.

Greville Janner returned to Britain in 1942 and attended St Paul's School, London.

Greville Janner investigated cases of British airmen who were shot at Stalag Luft III, the prisoner of war camp.

Later, Greville Janner read Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society, in 1952, and chairman of the university Labour Club.

Greville Janner became the international secretary of the National Association of Labour Students and president of Trinity Hall Athletic Club.

Greville Janner was able to attend Harvard Law School through both the Fulbright and Smith-Mundt Act awards.

Greville Janner's father announced his retirement from the Commons two days before candidate nominations closed in 1970, and his son was quickly chosen in his place.

Posters imploring electors to "Vote Greville Janner" had already been printed, and thus did not need to be scrapped.

The younger Greville Janner retained the reformed Leicester West from 1974 until his retirement at the 1997 general election.

Greville Janner chaired the Select Committee on Employment from 1994 to 1996.

Greville Janner lost this position because Conservative members of the committee acted against him.

Greville Janner was succeeded in Leicester West by Patricia Hewitt.

Greville Janner was president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the main representative body of the British Jewish community, from 1978 to 1984, and was a prominent campaigner in the efforts to gain reparations for victims of the Holocaust.

Greville Janner was a vice-president of the World Jewish Congress until 2009 and of the Jewish Leadership Council until 2015.

Greville Janner was president of the National Council for Soviet Jewry and the Commonwealth Jewish Council.

The Lord Greville Janner Scholarship provides funding for ten schools to take part in the Trust's educational programmes each year.

Greville Janner sought to foster good relations between different faiths and religions and wrote about this issue in his book One Hand Alone Cannot Clap.

Greville Janner co-founded the Coexistence Trust, a charity to combat Islamophobia and antisemitism.

Greville Janner was created a life peer as Baron Greville Janner of Braunstone, of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire in 1997.

Greville Janner was President and an Officer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Anti-Semitism.

Greville Janner was associated with the Labour Friends of Israel and in 2002 backed Stephen Byers to be chairman.

In 2006, Greville Janner was struck by Lord Bramall, a former head of the Armed Forces, during a heated row over the Middle East.

Greville Janner was hit in one of the rooms close to the chamber.

Greville Janner later sought the advice of fellow peers about how and whether to make a formal complaint against Lord Bramall, before deciding to accept an apology.

Greville Janner continued to attend the House of Lords until December 2013.

Greville Janner was on leave of absence from the House of Lords from 13 October 2014.

Greville Janner wrote a number of books on public speaking and business communication, including On Presentation.

Greville Janner was a former member of The Magic Circle and the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

In 1955, Greville Janner married Myra Louise Sheink, who was originally from Australia and the niece of Sir Israel Brodie, the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

Greville Janner is married to a brother of the Israeli writer Amos Oz.

At a court hearing in August 2015, a medical specialist acting as a witness for the defence said that Greville Janner was experiencing the early stages of Parkinson's disease.

Greville Janner died on 19 December 2015 from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 87.

Greville Janner received cross-party support in the House of Commons after Beck's conviction.

Greville Janner said that he had previously refused to provide Beck with references, and that Beck had "enlisted" the witness, Paul Winston, in an attempt to "frame" Greville Janner.

Greville Janner was interviewed by the police in 1991, when the prosecution case against Beck was being prepared.

The 1991 interview was the only time Greville Janner was interviewed by the police.

On 16 April 2015, the CPS issued a statement indicating that they would not charge Greville Janner owing to his poor health.

Just over a week later, it emerged that although the four doctors agreed Greville Janner had severe dementia they were not unanimous on the six points listed in the CPS statement.

Only one was asked if Greville Janner could be faking the condition, a suggestion which was categorically dismissed.

However, witnesses have testified that Greville Janner was not only lucid in 2013 but was seen driving his car.

The Exaro website revealed on the same day that Greville Janner was being investigated as part of Operation Midland, the Metropolitan Police's investigation into the Westminster paedophile ring.

John Mann, who was then campaigning to retain his Bassetlaw seat for Labour during the 2015 general election, told The Daily Telegraph that all the documents relating to the upper chamber's contact with Greville Janner should be made public.

On 29 June 2015, it was reported the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions not to prosecute Greville Janner had been overturned by David Perry, the QC appointed to make a review of the CPS decision in April.

On 7 December 2015, it was ruled at the Old Bailey that Greville Janner was unfit to stand trial.

Greville Janner died on 19 December 2015, and criminal proceedings against him ended with his death.

Liz Dux, a solicitor for six of Greville Janner's alleged abuse victims, said that claims against the estate would be made in the civil courts.

On 15 January 2016, further allegations of abuse were made by twelve former residents of children's homes; Greville Janner had regularly visited homes in Leicestershire in the 1970s and 1980s.

Solicitors were representing at least 20 men and one woman, including the 12 residents of children's homes, who say Greville Janner had abused them.

The report of the retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques concerning the earlier investigations of allegations made against Greville Janner was published in January 2016.

In 1991, the police had not checked whether Greville Janner had shared a hotel room with a 14-year-old boy, and had made only "extremely limited" checks at the children's home where he lived.

Greville Janner appointed himself Britain's chief paedo-finder general and created a moral panic.

Greville Janner's motive was personal political advancement riding on a bandwagon of public frenzy which he had whipped up.