Pick Up the Pieces: My Life With Ray Wyre

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A social worker who had worked in social care with children for 30 years, brought an appeal against the decision made by Charles A tribute to the extraordinary skill of Ray Wyre … who possessed a unique ability to enter the mind of offenders and by doing so provide the evidence which would bring to an end years of offending and unsolved crimes.’ Richard Monk, Commander, Metropolitan Police and UN Police Commissioner in Bosnia and Kosovo (Review of 1st Edition). Their despair has never been made public before - and Wyre blasted critics who insist they have not expressed enough grief.

A “paedophile” witch-hunt?’ Independent, 17January 2002; ‘Paedophiles: The Police Hunt’ Independent on Sunday, 19 January 2002 So far as I’m aware, Wyre’s name does not crop up again in relation to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance until Sunday 27 January, when the Sunday People splashed a major story about a private meeting between the McCanns and the Wyres.Sally, who is studying for an MA in criminal psychology, claims that she wants to help rehabilitate the men by offering them her close friendship. She first began work in the field of sex offenders in the 1980s when she volunteered at Ray Wyre’s controversial Gracewell Institute, in Moseley, Birmingham. However, there is no culture of community policing in Portugal and they have laws that prevent the discussion of cases. This is clearly the wrong way round. The media are essential in passing co-ordinated and directed information to the community. I now reproduce part of my currently-censored article about Ray Wyre, where I refer to Sally Smith:

This did not prevent him continuing to allow the female volunteer referred to above, to assist at the Clinic, with whom he had 'agreed to disagree' over their respective therapy techniques. Police Whistleblower Maggie Oliver: I witnessed police failing victims during the Rochdale grooming gangs scandal. How can we STILL allow this to happen? Further indication that Wyre seems to have difficulty in differentiating between those who are innocent and those who are guilty is I love the men because of - not in spite of - what they have done,” said Sally, adding that it started when she fell in love with her own abuser.

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Opinions on Wyre's methods include the following; "cognitive therapies have become confrontational and frankly This could, possibly, lead to a woman on her own, who has lost a child, saying to herself wrongly that the parents did not care for this child and deciding to take the girl home. No paedophile, no conspiracy - just a lonely woman.