Lest we forget, F.A.C.T./Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers with pilot group launched 30 years ago, in 1992.
F.A.C.T. developed from support groups for those falsely accused of abusing children in the residential care system. The first group was set up in North Wales in 1992, to support those falsely accused of abuse as part of the North Wales child abuse scandal first rumoured by the UK sensationalist press in 1991, following their very profitable 1980s fake 'Satanic Panic' witch-hunts.
F.A.C.T. itself was set up in late 1999, following allegations of abuse made across North West England, notably at the St George's School in Formby, Merseyside, where one of those accused and later cleared of all charges (when the false accusers failed to appear in court) was football manager Dave Jones. Plus, later cleared after being jailed Basil Williams-Rigsby and ex-GOOD cop Sgt Mike Lawson who, when finally freed in 2005 said on the Richard & Judy TV Show, paraphrased, "I know how these corrupt operations are made to work, and you haven't heard the last of this." (So watch out, ex-BAD cop MWT!)
Several other local groups later merged to form the national organisation F.A.C.T. which has submitted evidence to several inquiries into alleged child abuse and the increasingly questionable 'UK criminal justice system'.
In 2005, Wrexham Council refused permission for a conference, arranged by F.A.C.T. at which cultural historian (the late) RICHARD WEBSTER was to have been the main speaker at the former Bryn Estyn children's home following the publication of his, "THE SECRET OF BRYN ESTYN: THE MAKING OF A MODERN WITCH HUNT"; Orwell Press, February 2005.
In November 2012 F.A.C.T. strongly criticised what it called "false allegations and wrongful convictions" in relation to the North Wales child abuse scandal and many more in modern Britain.
Further background: In 1991 reports began to appear in the UK sensible and sensationalist press falsely claiming that Bryn Estyn, a home for adolescent boys on the outskirts of Wrexham, lay at the centre of a 'network of evil' paedophile ring whose members included a senior North Wales police officer. A massive investigation was launched and early in the morning of 15 March 1992, 40 police officers took up positions in streets in and around Wrexham. As dawn broke they swooped down on their suspects' homes and arrested sixteen men and one woman. All but one had worked at the Bryn Estyn care home for adolescent boys on the outskirts of Wrexham.
According to, all unsubstantiated, reports Bryn Estyn had lain at the centre of a network of evil conspiracy which supposedly involved the extensive homosexual abuse of adolescent boys by a paedophile ring, whose members terrorised their victims and subjected them to a regime of violence and brutality; the now familiar 'Carl Beech' bullshit!
A Witch Hunt, which, over the next ten years, spread throughout Britain with thousands falsely accused, hundreds arrested, and UK prisons began to fill up with a majority wrongly convicted, and some rightly jailed.
Had Britain at last faced up to a horrifying reality? Or was there another, even more disturbing story that remained to be uncovered, where leading journalists themselves helped to set in motion a new kind of modern Witch Hunt that was unable, or still unwilling, to distinguish between a few guilty and the many innocent?
www.amazon.com/Secret-Bryn-Estyn-Making-Modern/dp/0951592246