Disclosure S5E7: Beneath the Magic Circle Affair
- Aired: 2023-01-31
- Time: 22:40:00
- Runtime: 40 minutes
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Overview
After a senior Scottish lawyer is convicted on historic child abuse charges, BBC Disclosure speaks to his victims and explores how he hid his crimes for decades. Reporter Myles Bonnar also revisits a 30-year-old scandal that rocked the legal establishment. For the first time on camera, members of the police, press and judiciary look back on the so-called 'Magic Circle Affair' and its major players. We ask whether there was a dark circle of criminality operating beneath this scandal.