Thursday 23 June 2022 11:39 PM Late BBC presenter was supporter of paedophile group, says documentary trends now
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The BBC's voice of the Proms wrote a 20-page pamphlet promoting child sex abuse while he was working as an announcer on Radio 3, a documentary claims.
John Holmstrom was a supporter of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which asked him to pen the disturbing leaflet.
Holmstrom, who died in 2013 aged 86, was also a close friend of an Eton master accused of abusing boys at the elite public school, the Radio 4 In Dark Corners series reveals.
Raef Payne, who taught at Eton for 35 years and died in 2001, attended parties where men traded photos of naked children. Eton archives contain six boxes of correspondence between Payne, Holmstrom and other masters at the college.
PICTURED: PIE member Thomas O’Carroll, who was a former Labour Party member, Open University information
