Top lawyer Robert Henderson may have fanned the flames of the conspiracy theory to hide paedophile activity.
Susie Henderson waived her anonymity to accuse her father and some of his legal colleagues of sexually abusing her when she was a childIt was the scandal that shook the Scottish legal establishment - claims that a so-called "magic circle" of secretly gay judges and lawyers were making prosecutions against homosexual criminals disappear.
Despite homosexuality being legal in the 1980s it was still largely hidden at the top of the legal world and could do damage to careers.He never revealed who was on it or what they were alleged to have done but the suggestion was that he could use it if he needed to.His daughter Susie told the BBC her father sexually abused her throughout her childhood.
Judge Lord Braid told the 72-year-old he had committed "vile" crimes of the "utmost seriousness and depravity" and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison."That was always my fear that nobody would believe me. I knew that I'd been believed, and that I'd got justice at last.
"We assumed that he was just going to give us a briefing on the legal background to all this," said Magnus Linklater, the then editor of The Scotsman."To our astonishment, [Lord Hope] began detailing the various cases that he'd been investigating," Mr Linklater said. Operation Planet was an investigation into the alleged abuse of young boys recruited into sex work as so-called rent boys and abused by older men.
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