0:00:24 > 0:00:26I formed the impression at first that children were fairly resilient
0:00:26 > 0:00:31and didn't suffer very much.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33The caring side of child
0:00:33 > 0:00:40psychiatrist Dr Morris Fraser hides a sexual predator.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41He had been abused?
0:00:41 > 0:00:42Yes.
0:00:42 > 0:00:43By Morris Fraser?
0:00:43 > 0:00:44By Morris Fraser.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47But even after being convicted, the paedophile doctor was not struck
0:00:47 > 0:00:49off by the General Medical Council.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Why was he not struck off?
0:00:51 > 0:00:52I don't know.
0:00:52 > 0:00:53He should have been.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58He absolutely should have been struck off.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Tonight, the face of a dangerous doctor.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04A paedophile allowed to continue practising medicine for decades
0:01:04 > 0:01:13in spite of four convictions and two spells behind bars.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28As the Northern Ireland conflict gathered momentum in 1971
0:01:28 > 0:01:31a celebrity doctor emerged to champion the cause
0:01:31 > 0:01:34of the children of the troubles.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37The truth is that a lot of children in these areas, the vast
0:01:37 > 0:01:43majority of them have had symptoms of some kind.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Psychiatrist Dr Morris Fraser witnessed children in conflict
0:01:47 > 0:01:49first-hand where he worked at the Royal Belfast Hospital
0:01:49 > 0:01:53for Sick Children on the Falls Road.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56He soon became the expert on how the growing street disorder
0:01:56 > 0:02:00affected young lives.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02His seminal book, Children in Conflict, was lauded
0:02:02 > 0:02:04here and in the United States.
0:02:04 > 0:02:10His celebrity status grew on both sides of the Atlantic.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Evidence was published in a recent issue of the British Journal
0:02:13 > 0:02:15of Psychiatry by Dr Morris Fraser, a 29-year-old psychiatrist who sees
0:02:15 > 0:02:18about 30 young of patients a week in his Belfast clinic.
0:02:18 > 0:02:23Children who have been seriously emotionally disturbed as a result
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Children who have been seriously emotionally disturbed as a result
0:02:30 > 0:02:31of a first-hand experience of violence.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33This facade of concern masked Morris Fraser's real reasons
0:02:33 > 0:02:34for his interest in children.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Publicly, Fraser wanted to use a Scout troop he'd set up in north
0:02:38 > 0:02:43Belfast in 1966 to help young boys escape street violence.
0:02:43 > 0:02:53Privately, he had other intentions.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57In 1971, Dr Morris Fraser arrived at this block of apartments
0:02:57 > 0:03:01in London for the weekend.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04With him, he brought a 13-year-old schoolboy from Belfast whose parents
0:03:04 > 0:03:09were told he was on a scouting trip in County Down.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12What happened to the boy inside these apartments
0:03:12 > 0:03:15eventually led a year later to Dr Fraser appearing
0:03:15 > 0:03:17at Bow Street Magistrates Court where he admitted charges
0:03:17 > 0:03:27of sexually assaulting the boy.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Fraser's guilty plea meant the full facts of the case
0:03:33 > 0:03:35were not revealed in court.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38But Spotlight has spoken to the RUC officer who was part
0:03:38 > 0:03:42of the investigation.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45For security reasons, he didn't want his face to be seen.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47The boy was quite disturbed, that's the best way to describe,
0:03:47 > 0:03:52it and his father described to me that he had been away
0:03:52 > 0:03:55with the scouts for a weekend.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59He returned with pains in his rectum and his father was a bit perturbed
0:03:59 > 0:04:06about this and wanted to involve the police.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Medical evidence confirmed the sexual assault.
0:04:08 > 0:04:15My recollection was that it was was described as a funnel shaped rectum.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Certainly penetration by a penis or something of that nature had
0:04:19 > 0:04:22certainly taken place.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Maybe more than one.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25On more than one occasion.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28You got from the boy that he had intercourse?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Yes, he had been abused yes.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32By Morris Fraser?
0:04:32 > 0:04:33By Morris Fraser.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35And he told you that in his statement?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Oh, he did, yes That was in his statement.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41Yes.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Fraser pleaded guilty and was fined ?50.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53The Scout Movement took swift action and banished Fraser for life
0:04:53 > 0:04:55immediately he was arrested and before he was convicted.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57By contrast however, even after Fraser was convicted,
0:04:57 > 0:04:59the body meant to regulate doctors and protect the public -
0:04:59 > 0:05:02the General Medical Council, the GMC, allowed him to carry
0:05:02 > 0:05:06on as a child psychiatrist.
0:05:06 > 0:05:13Peter Walsh fights for patients' rights.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15It would seem in this instance, they quite woefully failed
0:05:15 > 0:05:19to protect patients, failed to take action against this
0:05:19 > 0:05:22doctor to ensure that he wasn't going to be in the position
0:05:22 > 0:05:26where he could prey on vulnerable patients.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Neil Anderson, chief executive of the children's charity
0:05:28 > 0:05:37the NSPCC is horrified by the GMC's lack of action.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39One of the most glaring failures is in the dealing
0:05:39 > 0:05:41with his offences under the General Medical Council's
0:05:41 > 0:05:42disciplinary committee.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Because his continued professional registration, as a result of that
0:05:45 > 0:05:52failure, allowed him to continue to have access to children.
0:05:52 > 0:05:59The current chief executive of the GMC is Niall Dickson.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02He was convicted of an offence against a 13-year-old boy in 1972.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Why was he not struck off?
0:06:10 > 0:06:11I don't know.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12He should have been.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14He absolutely should have been struck off.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17It's very difficult to get into the mindsets of those
0:06:17 > 0:06:18who took that decision.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19There were different procedures at that time.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21There were different attitudes at that time.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24There were undoubtedly different approaches.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27But none of that, none of that excuses the fact that this
0:06:27 > 0:06:29organisation allowed that doctor to go on practising
0:06:29 > 0:06:38after that conviction.
0:06:38 > 0:06:43After Fraser's first conviction, he still had access to children.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Like Richard Kerr.
0:06:45 > 0:06:49He remembers when he 10-years-old in 1972 being taken to see Dr Fraser
0:06:49 > 0:06:52at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54He was there to discuss his disruptive behaviour
0:06:54 > 0:06:57at his care home.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00I was sitting on the chair.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05I remember having sandals on and shorts on.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09I just remember being asked to remove them down.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11He took I think some kind of photograph.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15I was shocked.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19He said he was a doctor and not to worry.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22But there was plenty to worry about.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25A convicted paedophile was still free to treat up to 30
0:07:25 > 0:07:28children a week.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30According to Richard Kerr, Dr Fraser came to visit him
0:07:30 > 0:07:35at his Children's Home Williamson House.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37He would just call out my name and I would be down on the floor
0:07:44 > 0:07:48He would just call out my name and I would be down on the floor
0:07:48 > 0:07:49playing with my toys.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52And in the play room there was a table and it was about five
0:07:52 > 0:07:53feet from the floor.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57And I remember him getting me under the table and there was a wall
0:07:57 > 0:07:58and he would wrestle with me.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01He would tickle my belly, make me laugh and while he was doing that,
0:08:01 > 0:08:04he would start to move his hands kind of around my
0:08:04 > 0:08:13private areas.
0:08:24 > 0:08:29Yes.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Just as his conviction didn't prevent him having access
0:08:32 > 0:08:35to children, his public profile didn't appear to be affected.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Here he is in February 1973 appearing on BBC television
0:08:38 > 0:08:48with David Dimbleby.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Do you think that there is long term damage being done that will prevent
0:08:52 > 0:08:55the next generation being a moderate generation in the way that everyone
0:08:55 > 0:08:56here would them to be?
0:08:56 > 0:09:00It's inevitable as well as utterly deplorable that they are going to be
0:09:00 > 0:09:02affected by what they see around them by living in guerrilla warfare.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Three months after this television interview,
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Morris Fraser was again arrested - this time in New York
0:09:08 > 0:09:14as part of an international paedophile network.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Newspaper reports here and in the United States revealed
0:09:17 > 0:09:20that Dr Fraser's arrest along with seven other men concluded a two
0:09:20 > 0:09:27year police investigation.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30A court heard that on 19 different occasions the eight defendants
0:09:30 > 0:09:32were observed gathering at a house at Long Island,
0:09:32 > 0:09:33New York State.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35There, the court was told, they engaged in acts of sexual
0:09:35 > 0:09:38abuse of 15 children in the 10-15 age group.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39The indictment specified one count of conspiracy,
0:09:39 > 0:09:4119 counts of sodomy and seven of sexual abuse
0:09:41 > 0:09:48against each defendant.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52At the time, Dr Fraser told newspapers: "My innocence
0:09:52 > 0:09:54is beyond question.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57I want to assure the parents of children that I have treated
0:09:57 > 0:10:07about that." Fraser was released on bail and returned
0:10:07 > 0:10:10to Northern Ireland to face the first of a series of GMC
0:10:10 > 0:10:18disciplinary hearings related to his 1972 London conviction.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Despite reports of his arrest in America leading to his sacking
0:10:21 > 0:10:23by the NI Hospitals Authority, the GMC did not remove him
0:10:23 > 0:10:28from their medical register.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31He remained a celebrity doctor, with the publication of his book
0:10:31 > 0:10:40serialised by the Sunday Times.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Niall Meehan is head of the journalism faculty
0:10:42 > 0:10:45at Griffith College in Dublin.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47He became fascinated by the Fraser story and the apparent
0:10:47 > 0:10:54leniency of the GMC.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56He learned from a Freedom of Information request that
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Fraser had been allowed to give his evidence to the GMC
0:10:59 > 0:11:01in camera, that is in secret.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04And that effectively the proceedings had been turned into
0:11:04 > 0:11:12a trial of the victim.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15It appeared as though the tables were turned and that the innocent
0:11:15 > 0:11:17doctor clinically trained psychiatrist had been corrupted
0:11:17 > 0:11:18by a 13-year-old boy.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21In fact, the boy appeared to be the author of the doctor's
0:11:21 > 0:11:24depravity, which seems to me to be a grave charge against the GMC that
0:11:24 > 0:11:26instead of protecting the public against this child abusing doctor,
0:11:26 > 0:11:36they protected the doctor against his victim.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39This is how his defence was reported in the British Medical
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Journal at the time.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43The boy came from a broken home and apparently he had problems
0:11:43 > 0:11:48with drugs and had had some homosexual experiences.
0:11:48 > 0:11:56It was one isolated incident with a sophisticated boy - a boy not
0:11:56 > 0:11:59corrupted by the doctor.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01To describe victims of child abuse in that way,
0:12:01 > 0:12:02is just completely unacceptable.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Completely unacceptable.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09There is no excuse for it.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Of course social mores would have been different at that time,
0:12:11 > 0:12:14people behaved in different ways, people looked at things
0:12:14 > 0:12:15in different ways.
0:12:15 > 0:12:23But that doesn't excuse it.
0:12:23 > 0:12:29They didn't strike Fraser off, but by the end of that first
0:12:29 > 0:12:32disciplinary hearing the GMC had at least reached a judgement.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34The committee have accordingly judged you to have been guilty
0:12:34 > 0:12:37of serious professional misconduct in relation to the facts proved
0:12:37 > 0:12:41against you in the charge.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45But did the GMC strike Dr Fraser off the medical register?
0:12:45 > 0:12:48No.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Instead they sent him to a psychiatrist for treatment
0:12:50 > 0:12:56and deferred any judgement for at least eight months.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Morris Fraser had built up a public profile since the outset
0:12:59 > 0:13:01of the troubles, becoming a regular on television and radio
0:13:01 > 0:13:04here and in the United States, offering insights into children
0:13:04 > 0:13:10traumatised by the conflict.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Here's one picture, for example, by a boy from a republican area,
0:13:13 > 0:13:15in which he depicts himself as a soldier in
0:13:15 > 0:13:18traditional Irish garb.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21And on the other side of the coin we have a picture
0:13:21 > 0:13:22by a Protestant boy.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25He has drawn a picture of his street and large streaks of red running
0:13:25 > 0:13:26down between the houses.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30And he says that this red is Catholic blood.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Niall Meehan believes Fraser was protected because his public
0:13:32 > 0:13:36statements about the conflict suited the authorities.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40There was a suggestion that children were being used actively by those
0:13:40 > 0:13:42who were opposing the British government and the British army
0:13:42 > 0:13:45and that seemed to be part of the propaganda to paint those
0:13:45 > 0:13:48against whom the British army was fighting in as negative a manner
0:13:48 > 0:13:52as possible and in a sophisticated manner as possible and what was more
0:13:52 > 0:13:56sophisticated than getting a child psychiatrist to talk
0:13:56 > 0:14:00about the testimony that was delivered by his child clients.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05But is there another simpler explanation as to why Fraser
0:14:05 > 0:14:09was treated so leniently?
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Psychiatrist Dr Alex Lyons was a contemporary of Dr Fraser
0:14:12 > 0:14:14and had worked with him.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18In the medical world there was a system known
0:14:18 > 0:14:22as the three wise men, when three very senior doctors
0:14:22 > 0:14:30would meet and discuss the future of any doctor that got into any type
0:14:30 > 0:14:34of difficulties and the outcome was very often that they were
0:14:34 > 0:14:37advised to leave the country, that there wouldn't be any future
0:14:37 > 0:14:40for them in the country and I would think that that's
0:14:40 > 0:14:43probably what happened to Morris Fraser.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45What motivation would there be for anyone in the medical
0:14:45 > 0:14:49profession to cover up?
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Yes, well, there's two reasons, one is to be, to be kind
0:14:55 > 0:15:00to the person themselves and try to save them from some
0:15:00 > 0:15:03exposure and the second reason would be to save the image
0:15:03 > 0:15:07of your profession.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14In July 1974, Fraser returned to America to plead guilty to three
0:15:14 > 0:15:19counts of attempted sodomy.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Again, the guilty plea prevented details of his offences
0:15:21 > 0:15:24coming out in open court.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27He was deported back to the United Kingdom.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Just in time to attend his third disciplinary GMC hearing
0:15:29 > 0:15:39to review his psychiatric treatment.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40The GMC's disciplinary committee didn't consider offences
0:15:40 > 0:15:43that he was convicted for in the United States,
0:15:43 > 0:15:45in New York.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47They only considered the London conviction.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50So, it wasn't an isolated incident.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53There appears to have been a deference to Morris Fraser's
0:15:53 > 0:15:55celebrity and status as a practitioner and an author
0:15:55 > 0:16:02and also through his increasing media profile.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06And still the GMC could not decide what to do.
0:16:06 > 0:16:12The July 1974 meeting was adjourned for a year.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15"You will be asked to furnish the Council with the names
0:16:15 > 0:16:17of professional colleagues and other persons of standing
0:16:17 > 0:16:19to whom the Council may apply for information, to be
0:16:19 > 0:16:25given confidentially, as to your conduct in the interval."
0:16:28 > 0:16:30They said that Dr Fraser had received testimonials, they never
0:16:30 > 0:16:33stated who the testimonials were from, but it seems
0:16:33 > 0:16:37in all cases, that the GMC was part of a kind of railroad,
0:16:37 > 0:16:41to railroad Dr Fraser to a position whereby he could practice medicine
0:16:41 > 0:16:48again without anybody paying too much attention.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Finally, in 1975, the GMC reached a conclusion.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54And it was a stunning one.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Even though they were aware of the American conviction,
0:16:56 > 0:17:03they ruled that Fraser could carry on as a doctor in child psychiatry.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06"The evidence as to your continued response to treatment since July
0:17:06 > 0:17:111974 which has enabled the committee to feel satisfied that it will now
0:17:11 > 0:17:20be proper to discharge your case.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Your case is accordingly concluded." As he left the hearing Fraser told
0:17:32 > 0:17:34reporters he was free to carry on working as a psychiatrist.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Without restriction.
0:17:36 > 0:17:42Fraser's lawyer is quoted in one newspaper as saying: "...if his name
0:17:42 > 0:17:44was erased from the register, the people of Northern Ireland
0:17:44 > 0:17:48would lose someone who was doing a lot of good at a critical time."
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Sacked by the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority in 1973,
0:17:55 > 0:17:59Fraser was having to find work outside NI.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01But where exactly?
0:18:01 > 0:18:04We asked the GMC.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07They said they have no idea which hospitals he worked in
0:18:07 > 0:18:10or if he had worked with children.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13We know Fraser had moved to London and he seemed happy
0:18:13 > 0:18:18to have a public profile.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19I was totally surprised.
0:18:19 > 0:18:24I saw him maybe five years later on the BBC Songs of Praise
0:18:24 > 0:18:31and he was playing the organ in St Martin in the Fields Church.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37I was totally and absolutely shocked to see him sitting playing the organ
0:18:37 > 0:18:39in a place of worship.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53In 1992, Fraser's secret life in London as a paedophile
0:18:53 > 0:18:56was uncovered by police during a search at the home
0:18:56 > 0:19:00of Fraser's close friend Peter Righton.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Peter McKelvie - a child protection officer -
0:19:04 > 0:19:07was working with the police.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09He found incriminating documents showing that Righton, a child care
0:19:09 > 0:19:14expert who was an adviser to the government, was a paedophile.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19He led a double life, he was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Yes, he had a very, very influential role
0:19:21 > 0:19:24within the social work profession, but in his private life
0:19:24 > 0:19:26he was an active paedophile.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30He had worked as a government advisor, he was seen as perhaps one
0:19:30 > 0:19:33of, if not the expert on residential childcare the UK.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40The Police and Customs Search uncovered six suitcases full
0:19:40 > 0:19:50of letters and documents that revealed a paedophile network.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53There were letters from key paedophiles, to Peter Righton
0:19:53 > 0:19:54from people that were on the Paedophile
0:19:54 > 0:20:00Information Exchange list.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03They were known paedophiles, not necessarily convicted,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06people like Morris Fraser, people like Charles Napier.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Paedophile Information Exchange was set up in 1974 and for 10 years
0:20:09 > 0:20:11openly campaigned to have the law changed to allow adult sex
0:20:11 > 0:20:18with children as young as two.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Fraser and Righton were founding members.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26Teacher Charles Napier was the Treasurer.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Napier was banned from teaching in the UK from as early as 1972
0:20:29 > 0:20:32for child sex offences.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35But Peter McKelvie found disturbing evidence of how members
0:20:35 > 0:20:37of the paedophile ring used positions of power and influence
0:20:37 > 0:20:42to protect and support each other.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Peter Righton had written to the Department of Education,
0:20:45 > 0:20:49saying that he'd counselled a paedophile by the name of
0:20:49 > 0:20:57Charles Napier and that he was now a reformed character and was no
0:20:57 > 0:21:00longer a risk to children and could return to teaching
0:21:00 > 0:21:05from which he'd been banned after a conviction in 1972.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08And what Peter Righton did was said 'Well, to be absolutely certain,
0:21:08 > 0:21:10don't just go on my opinion, I recommend a consultant child
0:21:10 > 0:21:13psychiatrist who will give you a second opinion' and that child
0:21:13 > 0:21:19psychiatrist was Morris Fraser.
0:21:20 > 0:21:27Napier was jailed for 13 years in 2014 for raping young boys.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30So, it would appear Morris Fraser who should have been struck off
0:21:30 > 0:21:37as a doctor was using his position to support a fellow paedophile.
0:21:37 > 0:21:42But Fraser had connections with other paedophile networks.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44One involving this man, Michael Johnson - a teacher
0:21:44 > 0:21:47and youth leader who would later be convicted and jailed for sex
0:21:47 > 0:21:51offences against boys.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03From his base in London in 1988 Fraser began regularly making
0:22:03 > 0:22:07the long trek to Cornwall.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10His destination?
0:22:10 > 0:22:13The picture postcard harbour at Fowey.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Together, Johnson and Fraser set up a charity sailing club for deprived
0:22:26 > 0:22:32and vulnerable children, the Azimuth Trust.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35What they kept hidden from three other trustees was their sinister
0:22:35 > 0:22:40ploy to use the trust as a front for yet another paedophile network.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Janek Gwizdala was sexually abused by Johnson and photographed
0:22:45 > 0:22:49naked by Fraser.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55I was 10 years old, I was almost 11 maybe and it was an adventure you
0:22:55 > 0:22:57know, it was billed as an adventure.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00It started off as an adventure, it was very exciting,
0:23:00 > 0:23:03it was something that I would imagine most 10 or 11 year
0:23:03 > 0:23:05olds don't get to see in their entire lives.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08At sea, Janek says the boys were urged to remove
0:23:08 > 0:23:12all their clothes.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15One was encouraged to be a nudist, so there was ample opportunity
0:23:15 > 0:23:20for anyone to take photographs of plenty of naked children.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24Janek says Fraser used these photographs for an Azimuth
0:23:24 > 0:23:30newsletter called Sea Born which Fraser then distributed.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32It's obviously a very simple and incredibly effective way
0:23:32 > 0:23:35to distribute child pornography to what I imagine is quite a vast
0:23:35 > 0:23:40mailing list of paedophiles.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Another of the boys on the boat skippered by Michael Johnson
0:23:46 > 0:23:49was Peter Lambert from Penzance.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Fraser took a special interest in Peter who had learning
0:23:52 > 0:23:58difficulties caused by Aspergers - at that stage undiagnosed.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00At the time Peter's mum Gay appreciated Fraser's
0:24:00 > 0:24:06interest and offer of help.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08We assumed because as he was a psychiatrist,
0:24:08 > 0:24:10we thought he was, you know, what certainly, if anybody
0:24:10 > 0:24:13should know that, he had to have a good idea.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23What were your thoughts when you first met Morris Fraser?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Well, because there were problems at home, well, I liked him.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30I liked Morris.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33He was interested in me and I did not have any
0:24:33 > 0:24:39friends and he took me out for lunch and...
0:24:39 > 0:24:41He was kind?
0:24:41 > 0:24:44He was kind, yeah, I thought so at the time.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48In fact, Fraser was taking Peter to meet other paedophiles
0:24:48 > 0:24:52in the UK and Europe.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54One of them was Fraser's close friend from the 70's -
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Charles Napier - the convicted sex offender for whom Fraser had
0:24:57 > 0:25:05written a reference.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08This was a day out, Morris took me to meet his friend Charles Napier,
0:25:08 > 0:25:14and this was a boat of Charles'.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18And I was to launch the boat, so he gave me a bottle of champagne
0:25:18 > 0:25:19to pour over the boat.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25So, this is you with the champagne?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28I think we must have, well, it looks like we've already drunk
0:25:28 > 0:25:30it, I don't know.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31I think that may have happened.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32So...
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Well, what age would you have been in this?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36I think I was thirteen.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38For Peter's mum, the truth about Fraser only emerged
0:25:38 > 0:25:42when the police arrived at her home.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46They'd found naked photos of Peter in Fraser's possession.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Fraser had been taking Peter to other paedophiles
0:25:48 > 0:25:53to be photographed.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55They had come across some pictures, some photographs of Peter
0:25:55 > 0:26:00and that is when it started.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03They came to see us and then of course I realised
0:26:03 > 0:26:08what had been going on.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Peter kept a diary and noted one particular visit with Morris Fraser
0:26:10 > 0:26:14to the home of a sculptor.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16There was a photographer present as well.
0:26:16 > 0:26:21Peter's diary notes that 75 pictures were taken.
0:26:21 > 0:26:28He was told he had a good figure and he was paid ?5.
0:26:28 > 0:26:34Some of the pictures had been taken in, while he was in Spain,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37so there were a few from there and then these other ones
0:26:37 > 0:26:42were pictures which were taken when Morris visited these
0:26:42 > 0:26:48particular people around sort of the London area.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Peter Lambert's family was unaware that Fraser has just served
0:26:51 > 0:26:54a one-year jail sentence in 1992 for having another series of child
0:26:54 > 0:27:04pornographic images.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06In November 1995 Fraser was convicted of allowing
0:27:06 > 0:27:08a paedophile to take indecent pictures of Peter Lambert,
0:27:08 > 0:27:14a child in his care.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18It was his fourth conviction for child sex offences.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21A month later Dr Fraser applied to the GMC to have his name removed
0:27:21 > 0:27:24from the medical register.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26This time, the GMC acted swiftly, immediately accepting
0:27:26 > 0:27:32his application.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34I think the ultimate slap in the face for any
0:27:34 > 0:27:37victims of Dr Morris Fraser is that he was left himself
0:27:37 > 0:27:41to decide to de-register himself from the General Medical Council.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Since then, Fraser moved to Europe, keeping a low profile.
0:27:46 > 0:27:52However, he did respond by email to our questions.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55He told us: "I only say that I have never heard of any Richard Kerr,
0:27:55 > 0:27:59nor of any Williamson House.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02It is certainly somewhere I have never been.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Further, I never had an RVH office." In recent years,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Fraser has written a couple of opinion pieces for
0:28:09 > 0:28:11the British Medical Journal signing himself as psychiatrist on one
0:28:11 > 0:28:18and a retired consultant psychiatrist on another.
0:28:18 > 0:28:25But he hasn't confined his writing to medical topics.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29Fraser has been secretly writing child erotica stories.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31We have discovered 17 online articles written
0:28:31 > 0:28:38as recently as August 2015 about his sexual fantasies.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41They involve 13-year-old boys being stripped,
0:28:41 > 0:28:43spanked and sexually assaulted and some stories feature
0:28:43 > 0:28:48boys from Cornwall.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51We asked Fraser if these were fantasies based on fact.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54He has not responded.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Banbridge will be given
0:28:58 > 0:29:00evidence about the failure to strike off Morris Fraser
0:29:00 > 0:29:04from the medical register.
0:29:04 > 0:29:10It will come in a report from the GMC itself.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12What we will be doing, is passing all this information over
0:29:12 > 0:29:17to the historical inquires work that's going on in Northern Ireland.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19I mean, I think we can simply say that we believe
0:29:19 > 0:29:25that the actions that were taken, at that time, were inexcusable.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28The real culpability lies with Morris Fraser.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31We asked him if he was sorry for the abuse he had
0:29:31 > 0:29:33inflicted on young boys.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37He did not reply.