British Holocaust campaigner Greville Janner dies
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British peer Greville Janner, a prominent campaigner for Holocaust victims who was later accused of child sex abuse, has died aged 87, British media reported on Saturday.
Janner, a former member of parliament for the Labour Party for almost 30 years and ex-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, was best-known for his calls for reparations for families of thousands of Jews who fled Nazi persecution in World War Two. "The passing of Greville Janner marks the end of an era for the Jewish community," Mick Davis, chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, said on Twitter.
Janner had long faced accusations of child sex crimes and was the subject of three investigations between 1991 and 2007. He denied the allegations, but Britain's Director of Public Prosecutions said in April both prosecutors and police had made mistakes in not acting against him sooner. Earlier this month, a London High Court judge ruled that Janner, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, was too ill to stand trial over 22 charges of indecent assault and other sex crimes, concluding months of legal argument over the peer's mental health.
