The government is probably terrified of upsetting the LGBT&P (pedophile) vote.
Operation Ore, in 1999, identified some 8,000 British pedophiles, so the political party demographers probably figure that there are hundreds of thousands of Brits with pedophile tendencies — and they vote.
Plus, this particular deviant had been knighted, so would be a further embarrassment to the crown, knighthoods in recent decades becoming as ridiculous as the appointment of wacko CofE Bishops.
Alleged deviant.
Nothing has been proven.
And some of us are not at all convinced by the ‘evidence’.