The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Lord Macdonald of River Glaven has stated that a court hearing should take place to constitute whether Lord Greville Janner (86) is fit and capable of standing trial on child abuse charges.
Lord Macdonald has berated the decision of Alison Saunders, the current head of the Crown Prosecution Service, to not make Janner stand trial on the basis of his poor health. He has said that the case could be tested in the “full public glare of a courtroom.”
Lord Janner is said to be suffering from severe dementia. However, he has been investigated in the past between 1991 and 2007, over accusations that he abused defenceless and vulnerable young boys at children's homes in Leicester West, which was in his constituency.
