Who is the Liberal Democrat paedophile?

I mentioned in a recent post the case of Esther Baker, who has claimed that she was routinely raped as a child by a gang of paedophiles which included a prominent politician from the current era.  It is now reported that a former Liberal Democrat MP has denied raping her.

Here are some facts.  Esther Baker is thirty-two years old, and so was presumably born in either 1983 or the latter part of 1982.  She claims she was abused from the age of six, which puts us in the late 1980s, and she claims that the abuse continued into the 1990s.  The abuse took place in Staffordshire, but the politician was not local.

Of course she might be lying, but consider some other facts.  She has provided the police with thirty-three hours of testimony.  Any one of us could lie and pretend to have been abused as a child, but how many of us would have either the stamina or the imagination to invent a fake testimony which would take more than a day to recount?  Also, the police are presumably accustomed to examining evidence for inconsistencies, and if Esther Baker is lying then there would be a lot of scope for inconsistency in her lengthy testimony.

At this point, you might like to take less than ten minutes to watch an interview with Esther Baker, and decide for yourself if there are any inconsistencies or absurdities in her account.

In other news, the one surviving Liberal Democrat MP in Scotland - Alistair Carmichael - has admitted lying about the leaking of a document when he was a cabinet minister in the last government.  Some of his constituents have now begun legal action to try to have him removed from office as their MP, but he has been defended by party veteran Sir Malcolm Bruce, who apparently thinks it acceptable for MPs to tell lies.

Alistair Carmichael is unlikely to be Esther Baker's high profile rapist, because he was a university student in Scotland at the time the abuse was taking place - and of course he is not a former MP (yet).  By contrast, Malcolm Bruce was a member of parliament from 1983 until earlier this year, and he took the Liberal Democrat whip from 1988 onwards.  He has no obvious links with Staffordshire.

I repeat that the former Liberal Democrat MP accused of raping Esther Baker has denied the allegation.  I repeat also that Malcolm Bruce thinks it acceptable for politicians to tell lies.

Update: twenty-two MPs took the Liberal Democrat whip prior to the 1992 general election, not all of whom are suspects in the case of the LibDem paedophile.  One of them - Ray Michie - can be ruled out on the grounds of her gender.  Of the twenty-one men, four can be ruled out on the grounds that they died before the allegations became public.  Not one remains in the House of Commons, but five of them - including the late Charles Kennedy - were still there at the start of this year.  So far as I can make out, not one of them has ever been local to Staffordshire.

Another update: it appears that two other women have given a similar testimony to that of Esther Baker.