'Suspected paedo walked into a house with a boy, undercover cops watched and did nothing. I was disgusted'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPolice watched as a boy walked into a house with a suspected paedophile under surveillance, a former detective has alleged. Former GMP detective Rick Mortimer has told an employment tribunal that the man was believed to be 'dangerous', and abusing youngsters after 'getting them drunk'.
But he alleges that when he suggested that police intervene to protect the boy, his superior officer said 'what we can't see, we don't know about'.
Rick Mortimer also alleged in the hearing that after he complained to bosses about the surveillance operation, his locker in the highly secure offices of the Serious Organised Crime Group of GMP was broken into and his notes about the operation were taken. Read more: The disgraced teachers who were jailed after secret lives were exposed Mr Mortimer, who retired in 2017 as a detective chief inspector after 30 years in policing and is now a civil servant, also alleged he was 'ostracised' after lodging a formal complaint.
The target of the surveillance operation wasn't named at the hearing but it is understood to be Dominic Noonan, who was jailed in 2018 for eleven years for 13 historical sex offences against four boys, the youngest aged 10.
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