Veteran Labour Peer Lord Greville Janner—a suspected pedophile—has sent Michael Jacson a letter of congratulations for being cleared of child sex charges. The letter was sent a month after the pop star got acquitted from a high-profile trial in 2005.
The Labour Peer himself faced child abuse allegations for abusing children at care homes in Leicestershire from the 1960s through the 1980s. However, Janner was deemed unfit to stand the trial. According to the CPS in April, there was enough evidence to charge Janner with 22 offenses, but since Janner is suffering from Alzheimer he was ruled out to stand the trial.
Despite CPS's claims that there were enough grounds to charge Janner, his family remained adamant about the charges and insisted that he is innocent, Mail Online reports.
The two met in June 2002 when Janner accompanied Jackson and two others: Uri Geller and David Blaine, for a tour of the Houses of the Parliament. The said visit by Jackson brought negative feedbacks from critics commenting that it might question the parliament's credibility due to the allegations that Jackson had abused a 13-year-old boy.
Months after the said visit, Jackson was associated to another allegation similar to the first one, but was able to clear it away.
Janner gave the letter to Mark Lester, Jackson's friend who was not impressed with Janner's move at all and even described it as "inappropriate." Lester believed that Jackson had gone through too much with all the allegations and said, "No one should congratulate Michael on being cleared let alone a QC and peer. It's as if he's saying, 'Well done, you got away with it.'"
Due to Lester's unfavorable disposition towards the letter, he never forwarded it to Jackson.
In the letter, Janner wrote, "I was so very pleased at the news of your acquittal. What a terrible time you have endured."
Janner also wrote about their encounter and even wished Jackson would visit London again. The letter includes:
"You know how much I enjoyed and appreciated meeting you at the Universal Studios and in the UK - and especially on that wonderful day in Parliament and the journey to Exeter. So I send you my very best wishes - and hope that you will return to London before long and that I should have the pleasure of seeing you once again...so good luck and all best wishers. Yours, Greville."
It has been a decade since the letter was written and Lester probably already forgot about it. Lester claimed that he just found the letter while clearing out his home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
