‘I was raped by Mountbatten in Kincora at 11; he wasn’t a lord… to me he was king of the paedophiles’ – Journalist Chris Moore makes sensational new allegations in a new book
Chris Moore from Belfast is no ordinary journalist.
He has worked for decades on the Kincora child abuse scandal. After extensive new research he makes credible allegations about the British royal family’s Lord Mountbatten (killed by an August 1979 IRA bomb in the western Irish county of Sligo) and a wide-ranging British state cover-up.
A new book brings the story up-to-date.
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Readers are recommended to go and see the film “Lost Boys” whenever they get the chance – despite the British State’s efforts to kill the story, aided and abetted by the Irish police force, An Gárda Síochána (Guardians of the Peace).
All of this is grim reading.
Garda Boss Drew Harris has this CV : he joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in 1983, rising to become Deputy Chief Constable of the PSNI in October 2014. Harris decides who can and can not see relevant security files listing comings and goings at Mountbatten’s Sligo castle in the 1970’s. This is a black comedy script. There is one glimmer of light which might nudge the consciences of Garda bosses.
Chris Moore reports that
in 1995 he asked former RUC Chief Constable, the late Sir John Hermon, if McGrath was an MI5 agent involved in an operation at Kincora.
“He told me that this could not be true because he had not been made aware of any such operation, and he would have been told about it,” the journalist says.
Hermon apologised
“Then, in 1996, I saw him again at a Kincora-related event where he took me aside to quietly apologise for what he’d said at our lunch, which he described at misleading. He said he had subsequently learned that MI5 did indeed have an operation linked to Kincora and that McGrath was working for them.”
Hopefully public representatives and civil rights activists can put pressure on the Dublin government to act immediately.
Nothing is going to happen without intensive public pressure. The record on the British state inspires no confidence. It has refused, on several occasions, to prosecute the crime of politically-connected child abuse in the six county bit of Ireland. It has pocketed proven allegations, protected abusers, and given itself the opportunity to blackmail criminals who can become informers.
This is not an isolated incident.
The current Westminster six-county boss, Hillary Benn, is covering up a different scandal – investigations into a 1997 murder of a Derry GAA Club chairperson Sean Brown. Benn is protecting 25 state agents linked to this murder.
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Tánaiste Simon Harris Supports campaign of Sean Brown’s Family – RTÉ News Report
Chris Moore spoke to fellow journalist Suzanne Breen about his new book.
John Meehan May 16 2025
‘I was raped by Mountbatten in Kincora at 11; he wasn’t a lord… to me he was king of the paedophiles’
JOURNALIST CHRIS MOORE INTERVIEWED THREE VICTIMS OF THE TOP ROYAL KILLED BY THE IRA IN 1979 FOR HIS NEW BOOK ON ‘THE MOST ENDURING CHILD SEX SCANDAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE UK’. HE TELLS SUZANNE BREEN WHY STORY WON’T GO AWAY DESPITE HUGE COVER-UP
Suzanne Breen, Belfast Telegraph, May 16th, 2025
A man who claims Lord Mountbatten raped him as a child says he learned the identity of his attacker from watching news reports of his murder by the IRA.
Arthur Smyth was 11 years old when he says the senior royal twice sexually abused him in the infamous Kincora Boys’ Home in east Belfast.
Details of the allegations are outlined in a new book by journalist Chris Moore, who travelled to Australia, where Smyth now lives, to interview him.
Moore also spoke to two other boys who claim they were raped by Lord Mountbatten.
A father figure and mentor to King Charles, he was the late Queen’s second cousin.
Moore claims MI5 and the British political establishment have for decades tried to cover up his involvement in a paedophile ring.
The journalist also reveals how a detective, contacted by concerned social workers, secretly photographed VIPs visiting Kincora and logged their car registrations.
The visitors included NIO officials who worked for MI5, lay magistrates, police officers and businessmen.
The detective put in a request for a larger team of officers to investigate the home but was instructed to leave the matter by his superiors.
Moore says it’s possible MI5 planted Kincora housemaster William McGrath in the children’s home as part of an intelligence-gathering operation.
He describes Kincora as “the most enduring child sex scandal in the history of the UK. It’s the story I’ve dedicated my career to revealing since I was a young journalist”.
It is “the stuff of a John le Carre novel” with “a complicated web of cover-ups, obfuscation and denial on the part of the British authorities in which MI5 plays a starring role”, he says.
Arthur Smyth was split from his siblings and placed in Kincora after his parents’ marriage broke up in 1977.
Initially, he loved the big house in east Belfast. He thought he’d “landed in heaven” and enjoyed sliding up and down the bannister.
However, he was soon raped by McGrath, who told him he wouldn’t see his sisters again if he didn’t comply.
The Kincora housemaster then allegedly brought “his friend Dickie” to the premises. Arthur claims he was taken to a room with a big desk and a shower. He found it strange that there was a bathroom inside an office.
Moore says Arthur was asked to “look after (Dickie) in the same way he looked after McGrath”.
After Lord Mountbatten raped him, the 11-year-old was instructed to have a shower. He told Moore: “I felt sick, and I was crying in the shower. I just wanted it all to stop.”
Repeated rapes
However, a few days later the royal returned to the home “and there was a repeat of what had happened at their first meeting”.
Arthur said he had no idea who ‘Dickie’ was until watching the television news two years later. Reports included photographs and footage of Mountbatten, who had been killed after the IRA placed a bomb on his boat in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, in 1979.
Arthur, who was now in another children’s home, told Moore: “I went up to my bedroom. I started crying. I felt sick. That somebody in high stature like this could do such a thing, because we all think that a paedophile is a bloke that you don’t know, that he’s weird looking or he doesn’t look right, but he fooled everybody.
“He charmed everybody. To me, he was king of the paedophiles. That’s what he was. He was not a lord. He was a paedophile and people need to know him for what he was… not for what they’re portraying him to be.”
The two other alleged victims of Mountbatten interviewed by Moore are a man who now lives in the Republic and Richard Kerr, who was sent to Kincora as a 14-year-old.
Kerr said that he and his friend Stephen Waring were driven by Kincora warden Joe Mains to the car park of the Manor House Country Hotel outside Enniskillen in August 1977.
Classiebawn
Two of Mountbatten’s security men then allegedly arrived in separate black Ford Cortinas to ferry the boys to Mullaghmore, 45 miles away.
The teenagers were dropped off separately at Classiebawn Castle “before being taken individually from a guest reception room to the green boathouse where they were sexually assaulted and then returned to the Manor House to meet Mains for the journey home”.
Kerr said Mountbatten’s security men witnessed nothing. He claimed his friend Stephen — who apparently took his own life months later — stole a ring as a “memento” of his encounter with Mountbatten. He said the royal reported it missing and the RUC found it near Stephen’s bed in Kincora.
He alleged that police “made it clear to the pair of us that we were never to talk to anyone about this incident ever again”.
Kerr also knew 16-year-old ‘Amal’, who was allegedly taken four times that summer from Belfast to Mullaghmore to have sex with Mountbatten. It is claimed the royal told Amal he liked “dark-skinned people, especially those from Sri Lanka”.
Moore interviewed Mountbatten’s biographer Andrew Lownie, who said there was a “wider Anglo-Irish vice ring which stretched across country houses in Northern Ireland”.
Kincora residents were groomed by the home’s staff. In interviews with the journalist they recall being brought to hotels, private homes and castles across Northern Ireland to have sex with men.
Kincora opened in 1958 with Mains as its warden. Raymond Semple was appointed as his deputy six years later. Both men were paedophiles.
‘Homely, caring environment for deprived teenagers’
The large detached villa on the Upper Newtownards Road was meant to provide “a homely, caring environment for deprived teenagers”.
Councillors, social workers and health officials were served tea and sandwiches by Kincora’s young residents at its official opening.
A third paedophile — prominent Orangeman and evangelical Christian McGrath — was appointed housemaster in 1971.
Police frequently visited the premises in the 1960s and 1970s to investigate the teenagers’ complaints of being sexually abused. The boys watched with disappointment as officers left without taking action.
It was routinely alleged that the boys were lying about staff in revenge for some perceived admonishments.
While Mains and Semple were more “subtle” in their approach — generally leaving alone children who strongly resisted them — Moore says McGrath used brute force.
The journalist believes the prominent Orangeman worked as an agent informer for MI5 in the 1970s. He asks if it is possible that he was planted in the home by the intelligence service.
“What of a Kincora-based paedophile ring, which operated on both sides of the Irish border to supply boys for sex with a client list of rich and powerful individuals?
“Such intelligence might have given MI5 leverage over rich and powerful individuals anxious to avoid their paedophilic habits becoming public knowledge. The organisation was known to exploit such human weaknesses,” he says.
“MI5 has denied that McGrath worked for them, but I have two police sources who know that he did.”
Moore reveals that in 1995 he asked former RUC Chief Constable, the late Sir John Hermon, if McGrath was an MI5 agent involved in an operation at Kincora.
“He told me that this could not be true because he had not been made aware of any such operation, and he would have been told about it,” the journalist says.
Hermon apologised
“Then, in 1996, I saw him again at a Kincora-related event where he took me aside to quietly apologise for what he’d said at our lunch, which he described at misleading. He said he had subsequently learned that MI5 did indeed have an operation linked to Kincora and that McGrath was working for them.”
Moore says he has secret MI5 documents which confirm Hermon and RUC Special Branch were “kept in the dark about MI5’s assets” in Kincora.
The truth began to emerge about the boys’ home in 1980 after two social workers contacted the Irish Independent.
McGrath, Mains and Semple were jailed the following year for abusing 11 boys.
However, Moore says the abuse of multiple boys could have been stopped years earlier.
“In 1980 I found a police officer whose investigations into a child sex abuse case in 1975 had led him to Kincora. ‘David’ had photographed a range of people visiting the home who had no legitimate business going into the premises.
“He wanted to extend his investigation but wasn’t allowed,” the journalist says.
Moore, who worked for the BBC at the time, alleged that one of his superiors in the corporation had named his source ‘David’ to an RUC assistant chief constable.
“That betrayal shocked me,” he says. “It was completely unethical. Nobody in journalism should ever give away the name of a source. ‘David’ found out about it, and understandably severed all communication with me. I lost my source.”
The BBC was contacted but declined to comment.
Moore says the abuse in Kincora could also have been prevented when Army intelligence captain Brian Gemmell submitted reports in 1975 to a senior MI5 officer in Northern Ireland, Ian Cameron, but Gemmell was told to back off.
The journalist says that Detective Chief Inspector George Caskey, who later led an investigation into the abuse, told him that MI5 had “obstructed” his work, which Caskey described as a “criminal act”.
Moore says: “In this book, I have pulled together all the small pieces of evidence that the British government and MI5 were trying to conceal.
“Secret documents, including MI5 memos, have been given to me. They show that, in 1983, MI5 legal adviser Bernard Sheldon made Margaret Thatcher’s government do a U-turn on its promise of holding a judicial inquiry into Kincora.
“Instead, at MI5’s insistence, we got a very watered down inquiry with inadequate scope.”
In 2017, Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry chairman Sir Anthony Hart found that the abuse at Kincora was limited to the actions of Mains, Semple and McGrath, and didn’t take place with state or intelligence services collusion.
Moore is scathing of Hart’s conclusion. “The NIO has confirmed that files compiled on Kincora created between 1981-83 were destroyed shortly before the HIA sat,” he says.
“Other Kincora files have been locked away by the Government to 2065 and 2085. Kincora has become the shame of the British establishment. No matter how hard they try to ignore it, it won’t go away.”
Kincora: Britain’s Shame, Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up by Chris Moore, is published by Merrion Press, RRP £17
NO BAFTA FOR KINCORA FILM – Garda still to release Mountbatten Classiebawn Files
By Kathryn Johnston, May 15, 2025 – Affairs of the Nation
The BBC has just secured a prestigious Bafta (British Academy Film and Television Arts) award for Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure made by Alleycats of Derry and directed by Des Henderson. The series dwells on the culture of the Caribbean and also its history of slave sugar production.
What the BBC is not telling anyone is that the political commissars at its Northern Ireland division sabotaged an Alleycats documentary film four years ago – one that struck closer in time and to home at the heart of the British establishment.
In 2020, the corporation commissioned The Lost Boys: Belfast’s Missing Children, also from Alleycats. It examined the abduction and murder of a group of working-class schoolboys in Belfast in the late 1960s and early ’70s. With one exception, their bodies were ‘disappeared’, never to be found. Unlike Captain Robert Nairac, a British army undercover operative, and other ‘disappeared’, no one was bothered about the boys.
Alleycats committed the sin of unearthing fresh evidence that the abductions were linked to the paedophile gang that swirled around Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast.
The Kincora scandal remains one with multiple open wounds, including the collection by MI5 of kompromat about leading unionist politicians such as James Molyneaux MP, leader of the dominant Unionist Party, 1979-1995, and the blackmail of loyalists who were involved in collusive murder with the state.
The BBC broadcast a number of trailers for The Lost Boys – which was scheduled for transmission on Sunday May 9, 2021, at 10.30 pm – before it was pulled. BBC NI relied on an unprecedented Orwellian justification for this act: the new evidence contradicted the official narrative. The state sponsored ‘truth’ was instead to be found in the 2017 Hart Report. Judge Hart had not implicated MI5 and the RUC in the scandal, and his findings were now elevated to the last word on the affair.
The fact that Hart’s lamentable report contained a litany of mistakes, defamed an array of citizens and even managed to contradict itself over facts had no bearing on the thought police at the BBC.
Judge Hart’s trumped-up fabrications were only marginally less egregious than those produced by Sir George Terry of the Sussex police. It was Terry who laid the foundation stone for the Kincora cover-up back in 1982, when he determined that the RUC had not uncovered the scandal for over a decade because the victims were “homosexuals”, who were themselves responsible for the cover-up.
Terry wrote: “In homosexual offences, however, the victim is usually embarrassed and frequently feels some personal guilt or shame. As a consequence victims of homosexual acts are considerably less likely to make a formal complaint and even less inclined to tell others what had occurred.”
In The Lost Boys, Alleycats implicated Alan Campbell in the disappearance of the children. Campbell was the chief suspect of the RUC in the brutal murder of 10-year-old Brian McDermott on September 2, 1973. Part of McDermott’s dismembered and burned body was found in a sack in the River Lagan.
The film was never shown by BBC NI but it opened the 2023 Irish Film Institute Documentary Festival in Dublin in September 2023 to widespread acclaim.
After its release, it emerged that Joseph Mains, the warden of Kincora, had once threatened Richard Kerr, a victim of the gang, that he would be cut up with a rotating saw in a shed at the back of Kincora if he complained about the abuse he was suffering. Mains added that this was where the boy with “the red hair” (ie McDermott) had been dismembered.
Lord Mountbatten is also implicated in the scandal. An Garda Síochána has refused to release the visitor logs to his castle in Sligo, which would confirm – or refute – visits in 1977 by Mains with Kerr and a boy called Stephen Warren. The excuse is as Kafkaesque as anything conjured up by BBC censors – gardaí claim that the logs are part of an open inquiry into the murder of Mountbatten in 1979. Yet, the trafficking of the boys took place two years earlier.
Despite the impressive win at the Baftas, it is unlikely the hidden forces who really control the BBC will ever allow it to broadcast The Lost Boys.
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No BAFTA for Kincora film; Gardaí still to release Mountbatten Classiebawn Files
Tomás Ó Flatharta 
Shocking. Not surprising, but shocking nonetheless.
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May 16, 2025 at 5:20 pm