Margaret Hodge’s successor as leader of Islington Council was Derek Sawyer who ran the council between 1992 and 1994, when the abuse inquiries were set up, and he became head of police and probation bodies, and chairman of the London Courts Board. He became Deputy Chair of the Safer Neighbourhood Board in Islington in 2015 and was agent to Jeremy Corbyn MP.
Derek Sawyer had a business relationship with Derek Slade though he says he did not know Slade was a child sex offender. In 2011, the BBC presented a documentary about Slade entitled An Abuse of Trust.
‘Abuse headteacher left estate to ex-council leader and priest to clear his name after death’ Islington Gazette, 16th December 2019
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