Casson Coven Murdered Kathleen Waugh
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Casson Coven murdered Kathleen Waugh EXCLUSIVE by Richard Carvath Monday 16 April 2018 Intelligence handled by the late Geoffrey Dickens MP accused the Casson coven, a secret Satanists' group, of being behind the 1991 abduction and murder of Kathleen Waugh. The long-lost information has come to light via a former parliamentary source, and has been confirmed by former police sources. Mr Dickens named the Casson coven after a former coven leader, Stanley Casson (died 2002). Casson was a successful businessman who ran a shoes company, Cassons & Co. Limited, along with his three sons, from a head office on Penny Meadow in Ashton-under-Lyne. He also bought and sold properties in the northwest. But it was Casson's secret life as one of the leading Satanists in England which eventually came to Dickens' attention. Geoffrey Dickens was the Conservative MP for the Littleborough and Saddleworth constituency until his death in 1995. Mr Dickens became well-known in the 1980s as the children's champion who hunted down Satanists, paedophiles and child pornographers. In the early 1980s Dickens publicly campaigned to bring the paedophile Sir Peter Hayman to justice. Before Halloween 1992, he told a local newspaper: "This time of year is when Satanists do a lot of their recruiting and I would advise parents to make sure they know where their children are." In November 1992 he featured in a BBC Panorama programme by Martin Bashir about the Satanist ritual abuse (SRA) of children. Intriguingly the Panorama programme, 'In the Name of Satan?' , appears to have vanished from BBC archives. In his child protection work, Dickens ran an extensive network of sources, including a children's charity, councillors, police officers and solicitors. In particular, it's thought Dickens received information directly or indirectly from solicitors 1 Rupert Wood and Campbell Malone. The late Mr Wood (died 1990), a solicitor in Ashton-under-Lyne, was a freemason at the local Minerva Lodge and was well known at Ashton-under-Lyne Golf Club. Campbell Malone, now retired, was a solicitor in Rochdale in the 1990s. In February 1992, after a five-year campaign, Campbell Malone succeeded in getting Stefan Kiszko's wrongful conviction for murder overturned. A notorious miscarriage of justice, the late Mr Kiszko spent sixteen years in prison for the murder of a young Rochdale schoolgirl, Lesley Molseed, in October 1975. Miss Molseed's murderer, Ronald Castree, was finally convicted in 2007. The stabbing of Miss Molseed bore the hallmarks of a Satanists' ritual. At the time of the murder, Castree was a 21-year-old taxi driver from Rochdale. In the 1980s, Castree began selling comics and, by the 1990s, he was running the Arcadia Comics business from a shop on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne. It seems Mr Dickens first became aware of Casson coven members some time in 1992, but did not receive detailed information in relation to the Kathleen Waugh case until 1995. Several coven members were raided and questioned by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in the 1990s, but no charges were brought against them. Stanley Casson was identified to police by two women who said he had abused them as children, but GMP took no further action. According to Dickens, Casson was known to have associated with the notorious Satanist child abuser Michael Horgan, but whether they belonged to the same coven remains unclear. Horgan was convicted of horrific child abuse crimes in 1992, and in 2001 a national newspaper reported Horgan's direct involvement in the abduction of Lesley Molseed. In company with other Satanists, Horgan sexually abused and tortured children, including his own children, during rituals which took place in Rochdale homes and on Saddleworth Moor. Horgan was jailed after being found guilty of six sex offences in 1992. 2 Horgan's victims described being drugged and injected, bound and chained, hanged from hooks, beaten and branded, raped and abused, photographed and filmed. Victims also described seeing coven members wearing hooded robes, chanting in an unknown language and handling a snake. Some of the Horgan coven's victims were no more than toddlers at the time. In common with the late Jimmy Savile, Horgan was a close associate of the late Cyril Smith MP. Though all three men abused children, Smith's motive was probably paedophilia, whereas both Savile and Horgan were motivated by their religion, Satanism. 90-year-old Stanley Casson briefly became the oldest prisoner in Britain when he was jailed for hitting and killing a young girl and her grandmother whilst driving his Ford Scorpio car in 1999. Casson was convicted of causing the deaths by dangerous driving, but was never prosecuted for any of the many crimes he may have committed in the name of Satan. According to Dickens, a former farm near Hartshead Pike was an important location for Casson's coven meetings in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. At these meetings, the Casson coven would undertake rituals which included the abuse, torture and sacrifice of animals, children and vulnerable adults. Legend has it that Hartshead Pike was used by ancient druids for pagan rituals. Morris dancers mark the summer solstice by dancing at the Pike tower to this day. The tower on the Pike is known to some locals as the Witches' Tower. A network of old tunnels is said to run beneath the Pike. Land near the former Collier's Arms pub at the Pike was a regular venue for illegal clog fighting, at least until the 1950s. Some Satanists used to meet openly at the Collier's Arms, whilst wearing their coven cloaks, in the 1970s. In the mid 1980s a nearby disused church, St Augustine's, was desecrated by Satanists. 3 Though Stanley Casson is long dead, several members of his coven are still alive today. Will GMP bring any of these Satanists to justice? The 1991 case of Kathleen Waugh revealed serious failings in Tameside Social Services, and sadly, it was not to be the last time. Two years later, in December 1993, the Ashton & Audenshaw Reporter front page reported: "Children in care taken on red light tour." After a trip to swimming baths, social workers had taken children from a residential care home, Tiverton House (Wilshaw Lane, Ashton-under-Lyne), to a 'red light zone' in central Manchester. Children visited Sackville Street and Canal Street (an area known today as the 'gay village'). Following an internal council investigation, one social worker was fired. At the time, about a hundred children were in Tameside borough's care across nine council homes, at an annual cost of £2.1 million. Tameside Social Services evidently had a serious, ongoing problem with unsuitable staff in the 1990s, which affected both children and vulnerable adults. Kathleen Waugh, 41, who had mental and physical handicaps, was abducted from council- run Knowl House (Crowthorn Road, Ashton-under-Lyne) some time after 12:30 a.m. on 28 December 1991. Kathleen's disabilities were such that she could not have left the home by herself. GMP's Ashton CID mounted a major investigation to find her, but seasoned detectives were left baffled by Kathleen's disappearance. On 9th January 1992, the Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter quoted Detective Chief Inspector Colin Heelam: "We just do not know what has happened to her. I cannot understand how someone can disappear off the face of the earth..." Kathleen was eventually found six weeks after her disappearance, on 15 February 1992. Her body had been dumped in the Derwent reservoir in Derbyshire, 26 miles from her home. 4 No one has ever been prosecuted in relation to Kathleen's death. An autopsy failed to establish the precise cause of death, due to decomposition, but it did reveal traces of sedatives in Kathleen's blood. These were drugs which Katheen was not prescribed and could not have taken by herself. The autopsy also concluded Kathleen had been alive until at least six a.m. on the 28th December. At the inquest into Kathleen's death, in October 1992, it was concluded that Kathleen had been unlawfully killed by an unknown person. Coroner Peter Revington said, "I hope someone some day will find that person who has a dark secret and bring them to justice." In a 1995 Spectator article about Kathleen, Barry Wood wrote: "From the very beginning the response of the social services exasperated anyone who tried to get to the bottom of the affair." "Just like the Waugh family and the police, elected councillors found they were met by an impenetrable shroud of silence." "'It was just complete shutdown,' said one former member of the Social Services committee. 'We just could not get anything out of them.'" Barry Wood also described what happened when, three years after Kathleen's death, councillor John Taylor determined to uncover the truth: "Only days after Councillor Taylor began making fresh inquiries, anonymous phone threats were made to a former care assistant at the home and to the home of Councillor Taylor." Moreover, Wood reported "two unidentifed men" shouting threats at care home workers and daubing ketchup on windows in "the middle of the night". Geoffrey Dickens died aged 63 in May 1995. Did he learn of something really BIG in the months before his death? Something too hot to handle, even for him? We know for certain that Dickens was on to Stanley Casson's coven as being behind the death of Kathleen Waugh. And we know that Dickens believed it was murder. 5 Twenty-three years after his death, might Geoffrey Dickens' final clues help somebody solve this murder mystery today? 6 DPP vetoed prosecution in Kathleen Waugh case (Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter , front page, 29 October 1992) Police investigating the death of Kathleen Waugh would have liked to have prosecuted one person but were stopped by the Director of Public Prosecutions because of lack of evidence.