Ian Huntley flagged up on another count, though, Al: he wanted to study alchemy in clink. That has a history of child abuse associated with the dark side of it, because the early alchemists wanted to make it difficult for their rivals: in this instance, all that was known is that the next step of the work was "The Massacre of the Innocents", which was first recorded as the defence of Joan of Ark's Lieutenant-General Gilles de Rais for the mass-murder of at least 80 (per the skulls), 800 (per his confession) and possibly as many as 2500 (per demographic figures) children outside Nantes between 1435 and 1440. What he was actually after was improving the quality of gunpowder for cannonry, but no matter, he walked that path. And before anyone says it's nonsense, the Drew Professor of the Humanities in the Department of the History of Science at Johns Hopkins University has been successfully reproducing the work over the past couple of years, and the entire Project Newton experiment was started after some remarkable successes by a body studying the Elixir of Life, specifically opening an entire new field in oncology. It's the Royal Society who've got it wrong, throwing out the baby of what gave them birth with the bathwater of the superstition and error which we are somewhat specialists in: when they portray an image of science springing fully-formed from the ground in the 1670s, they omit to tell you that Newton wrote twice as much on alchemy as he did on physics, and that his work and Leibnitz was predicated in van Helmont's, which was sparked by an alchemical experiment disproving the four-element model which had held since Greek times. Van Helmont's alchemical adept was Nicholas de Cerclaers, the neighbour who inspired the Breughels in their works on the subject, based around the very subject I've just discussed.
Nor was Huntley alone in this in modern times. The Belgian child-murderer Marc Dutroux was managed as a snitch in a car-theft ring by a number of gendarmes who were also members of Abraxas, a subsect of Crowley's satanic OTO specialising in child abuse: the Thames Torso case was part of the work of their brother Voudon organisation, specialists in African black magick. The original Templar Abraxas is part of the mediaeval thinking in this domain, and again walked that path, it is thought.

That is some of the reality. Other parts of it, we should recall, were the background to the Dunblane shootings, which showed that Belgium is not alone in this practice riddling high society and politics. To what extent this all interacts is hard to know, because we're dealing with minds so sick nobody should be asked to study them. In Belgium, it certainly interacts with the top of the Roman Church, the way pressure brought to bear by the Adrienssens cover-up found they had all the buttons to push right to hand.

Does this involve Cliff, though? He rightly complains that his right to a presumption of innocence has been radically abused by the Police, to an extent which should make any judge in his right mind throw any case out before it even reaches him, rightly or wrongly: this is still Life on Mars policing.