EXCLUSIVE: Theresa May in cover-up row as it emerges GCHQ spy chief who 'was allowed to resign for family reasons' actually quit after he helped a paedophile Catholic priest avoid jail
Holy shit anons. There is something here worth paying attention to.
Remember, we always thought he was involved in spying on POTUS.
From Daily Mail.
Trump was inaugurated January 20, 2017
Hannigan resigned January 23, 2017
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Robert Hannigan helped a paedophile priest avoid jail, Mail on Sunday reveals
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He stunned Whitehall with his exit after just two years in charge of GCHQ
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The MoS learned he stepped down after the NCA discovered he helped a family friend avoid a custodial sentence for possessing 174 child pornography images
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Mr Hannigan provided a reference for Father Edmund Higgins at his 2013 trial
This newspaper has learned he stepped down after the National Crime Agency discovered that he helped a close family friend avoid a custodial sentence for possessing 174 child pornography images.
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They had caught Higgins boasting online of his sexual interest in babies and he later confessed to possessing and making child abuse images. He visited chatrooms when child sex abuse was being shown, and in May 2016 he hosted a chatroom where nine videos were played showing horrific child abuse, with one victim thought to be just three months old. When his house was raided, the NCA found more than 800 illegal images, 201 of which were in the most severe category. Even while he was on bail he returned to the depraved online forums to reoffend.
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Mr Hannigan has since gone on to a lucrative career in the private sector. He said last night: ‘Mr Higgins had been a close family friend for 20 years. After he pleaded guilty to child sexual imagery offences in 2013, we submitted a character reference on our knowledge of him to the court in good faith.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6738081/GCHQ-spy-chief-quit-helped-paedophile-Catholic-priest-avoid-jail.html