{"id":145444,"date":"2018-06-23T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/greater-manchester-police-knew-boy-was-with-paedophile\/"},"modified":"2018-06-23T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T17:05:53","slug":"greater-manchester-police-knew-boy-was-with-paedophile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/greater-manchester-police-knew-boy-was-with-paedophile\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester Police ‘knew boy was with paedophile’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Dominic Noonan was convicted for child sex abuse in May <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senior detectives chose not to intervene after officers saw a boy enter the house of a known paedophile, a watchdog has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Police were carrying out surveillance of Dominic Noonan, a Manchester gangland figure, when they saw the teenager enter his home in 2011.<\/p>\n

They contacted their Greater Manchester Police superiors but were told not to act, The Times reported.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police said: "There was no case to answer for misconduct."<\/p>\n

In February 2011, the force conducted a covert investigation into Noonan when officers "witnessed the suspect enter a premises with two young people and remain there for a substantial period of time", the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.<\/p>\n

The officers chose to continue their observation, the watchdog said.<\/p>\n

It added: "Officers involved in the operation did not intervene.<\/p>\n

"However, there was no suggestion at the time, or since, that anyone was harmed during the meeting."<\/p>\n

'Deficiencies'<\/h2>\n

In 2016, an IOPC report concluded the decision to not intervene by the two detectives leading the investigation "was in line with the investigative strategy" but "could amount to misconduct".<\/p>\n

It said "potential risks had been highlighted prior to the surveillance operation" but "there were some deficiencies in the planning of the operation".<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police held a formal misconduct meeting in 2017 when they found "there was no case to answer for misconduct and recommended both officers' actions should be dealt with as a performance matter with appropriate action plans".<\/p>\n

Noonan, who was the subject of a 2007 feature documentary film A Very British Gangster, was jailed for nine and half years for firearms offences in 2005.<\/p>\n

He was then sentenced to nine years in 2015 for arson, conspiracy to blackmail and perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n

In May, he was jailed for a further 11 years for various child sexual offences, including indecent assault and inciting a child to sexual activity, committed between 1980 and 2012.<\/p>\n

He chose to be referred to as Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy during the Manchester Crown Court trial last month.<\/p>\n

His brother, the gangland leader Desmond "Dessie" Noonan, was murdered in 2005 days before a Channel 5 documentary was broadcast in which he boasted he had "more guns than the police".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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