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Kincora: Britain’s Shame: Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up

By Chris Moore

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning former BBC journalist Chris Moore has been working on the story since it first emerged in 1980, and has uncovered a horrific catalogue of failed opportunities to put an end to the sadistic activities of the men who were running the home, in particular those of prominent Orangeman and MI5 source William McGrath.

What has emerged over the course of Moore’s investigation, in which he has gained exclusive access to witnesses, secret documents and whistleblowers within the British intelligence services, is that not only were the boys in Kincora systematically sexually abused, but that some were forced into a countrywide paedophile ring, whose members included Lord Louis Mountbatten. Moore also exposes MI5’s attempts to cover up what actually happened and that the organisation knew as early as the 1970s that the boys in Kincora were being abused.

Kincora is a shocking exposé of how the British state failed to protect some of its most vulnerable members.

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Fresh claims emerge that late Queen’s cousin Lord Mountbatten abused children at Northern Ireland boys’ home – as one says he was trafficked to royal’s castle

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By ELIZABETH HAIGH, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

Published: 11:19, 8 July 2025 | Updated: 08:53, 15 July 2025

A new book has raised fresh claims that Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin, Lord Mountbatten, sexually abused and raped multiple young boys at a children’s home before his death in 1979.

Lord Mountbatten, known as Dickie, was linked to the Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast by former resident Arthur Smyth, who named Prince Philip’s uncle as his alleged abuser in 2022, as part of legal action against institutions in Northern Ireland for breach of duty of care and negligence.

And in 2019, a secret dossier compiled by the FBI on British statesmen during World War Two and the Suez Crisis described King Charles’ uncle and valued mentor as a ‘homosexual with a perversion for young boys’, which made him an ‘unfit man to direct any sort of military operations’.

Now a new book by journalist Chris Moore, Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up, details allegations from four previous residents of the home against the aristocrat including Smyth, who has labelled the godfather of King Charles, the King of Paedophiles.

Sharing his story for the first time, Richard Kerr claims he was trafficked to a hotel near Mountbatten’s castle with a fellow teenager named Stephen, where they were allegedly assaulted in the boathouse. He also casts doubt on his friend’s apparent suicide later that year.

Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and the last viceroy of India, was killed on August 27, 1979 by an IRA bomb that was smuggled onto his boat. Two teenagers, his 14-year-old grandson and a 15-year-old boat hand, also died.

Kincora was an infamous boys’ home that closed its doors in the 1980s after allegations of routine sexual abuse of its vulnerable young residents, who have told how staff raped and assaulted them and trafficked them out to other men.

Despite reports of dozens of victims and multiple powerful individuals arriving at the children’s home in order to abuse the boys, just the three senior staff at Kincora – William McGrath, Raymond Semple and Joseph Mains – have ever faced any consequences.

Lord Mountbatten, known as Dickie, has been accused of travelling to the notorious former Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast and having boys resident there transported around Ireland for his sexual gratification.

The former Kincora Boys’ Home shut its doors in the 1980s after allegations of sexual abuse finally came to light.

They were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys, but police and British security forces have long been accused of orchestrating a cover-up of a powerful paedophile ring, whose members included politicians, judges and police officers. At least 29 boys are known to have been sexually abused at Kincora.

Former resident Arthur Smyth, who is one of the accusers featured in the book, said that Lord Mountbatten ‘charmed everyone’ but branded him ‘King of paedophiles’.