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Victims’ families slam CPS refusal to charge Janner

VICTIM support groups and Leicestershire Police condemned a contentious decision by prosecutors not to charge a veteran Labour peer with sexual abuse crimes yesterday.

Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said it was not in the public interest to proceed with a case against Lord Greville Janner QC.

Lord Janner, who served as an MP for 27 years in Leicester before being made a peer, is now 86 and reportedly suffering from dementia.

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