Words that Arthur C. Clarke won't smile about

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Feb 8, 1998

TODAY Prince Charles, in Nepal, visits children rescued from brothels where boys and girls had been tortured before being sold into prostitution.

On Thursday he met one of the men who preys on children. Arthur C. Clarke. Since we revealed last week that Clarke paid young boys for sex, we have discovered even more evidence of his sordid life in Sri Lanka. He has been linked to an international child sex ring and he has been named by other paedophiles in police statements. But the world-acclaimed author decided to deny our story. He said he had a "particular dislike" of paedophiles.

Well, so do we. Which is why we have printed extracts from a tape on page 27, in which he confesses to sex with young boys.

Although he agreed to pull out of a ceremony at which he was to be formally knighted by Prince Charles, so as not to embarrass the royal family, he did just that when he went to a banquet at which the Prince was guest of honour and even shook his hand. It is sickening that the Prince had to meet a man who indulged in sex with young boys.

The photograph of Clarke smirking as he raised a glass in a toast at the banquet is the look of a man that says, "I got away with it". He must not. He must be stripped of his knighthood.

Prince Charles has children. Tony Blair has children. They must act to deny this pervert an honour and to protect children who are more vulnerable than their own.