Cover-up claims: Former MP and Lib Dem presidency candidate Liz Lynne at the party's conference in Glasgow last week A leading candidate for the Lib Dem presidency was yesterday accused of helping cover up Cyril Smith’s vile catalogue of child sex abuse. Liz Lynne, who succeeded Smith as MP for Rochdale, allegedly ordered her PA to destroy several pages of notes containing a stream of allegations against the paedophile. They detailed a litany of abuse at the Knowl View children’s home in Rochdale, which closed in the mid-1990s. The PA, Deborah Doyle, said she had taken the notes during a 1996 telephone conversation with a former manager of the home, Martin Digan.
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Lib Dem presidency candidate alleged to help cover up paedophile's abuse
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Liz Lynne succeeded paedophile Cyril Smith as MP for Rochdale
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Her aide claims to have taken notes of abuse allegations during phone call
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Children's home boss had called her in 1996 to discuss the abuse rumours
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She said she was then told to destroy the notes, rather than bin them
Last night Miss Lynne said: ‘I have no recollection whatsoever of anybody contacting me about allegations against Cyril Smith or child abuse at @placeholder school.