A Home Office whistleblower has claimed the government department funded the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
Former civil servant Tim Hulbert said money was transferred to the organisation on the orders of the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch.
Mr Hulbert worked in the Voluntary Services Unit of the Home Office which approved grants to various outside organisations in the late 1970s and early 80s.
He said he went to his manager after seeing that funding was being given to PIE - the lobby group formed in the 1970s to campaign for the ‘rights’ of predatory sex offenders - but his concerns were shrugged off.
Former Home Office employee Tim Hulbert said the department provided funding to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), on the orders of the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch
The retired government worker told Radio 4's Today programme: 'Every quarter, the list of current grants that were up for consideration for financial support would be circulated through the office and I believe that I saw a copy of that which referred to the re-funding of PIE.
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