At sixteen years old, Stephen Daldry was an odd teenager. He was what his teachers described as 'backward but well-meaning' and a 'very polite young man'. Daldry's father had died a year earlier of stomach cancer. He would not see a doctor during this period, nor would he take pain-killers. He died an agonising death although when questioned at the time, Daldry didn't seem to appear bothered about his father's tortuous demise. Odd for a middle-class member of the banking milieu, not to want to see a doctor. It raises a question mark as to why...Stephen Daldry's odd behaviour (to be described later on) after his father's death was explained in terms of 'delayed shock'. However, Daldry had been 'odd' before that. His major recreational activity was 'baby-sitting' in the evenings, whilst his peer group played sport, went to pubs, concerts etc.
At sixteen years old, Daldry was to talk his way onto a national school trip up the Norwegian ffjords, on the SS Uganda, in 1975. He had already left school and was therefore not eligible to apply (only for 10-15 year olds who were still at school). However, his school relented and Daldry was allowed on board. Most of the children thought that he must be a teacher. At nearly 6 foot tall and with a military 'upper-class' accent, he certainly struck most of them as being one of the teachers. However, his 'best friend' on the trip was a 13 year-old boy from his school, who was rather short for his age and the two of them used to race around the decks as if they were much younger than either of their two ages.
Stephen Daldry raped a 12 year-old girl whilst on this trip. Her schoolmates found out (they were aware that he had been following her around) when she began to have violent nightmares, re-living the rape. She was too terrorised to talk about it at first but eventually admitted to having been raped, mainly because she would wake up screaming his name and shouting at 'Stephen' to get off her, pleading that 'it' hurt so much.
Daldry pleaded complete innocence and his teachers backed him up. However, the crew had evidence as to where he had been that evening and the Captain who subsequently interviewed Daldry, was quite sure of his guilt. He duly informed Daldry's school despite protests from his teachers. The teachers justified Daldry's behaviour on the grounds that he was still disturbed after his father's death, the year before. The girl's parents did not press charges in the end because they were too worried about the effect on their daughter in terms of the horrors of a rape case i.e. that their daughter would have to face Daldry in court and be subjected to cross-questioning. This was 1975.
Agents have supplied some interesting information about what subsequently happened. In 1989, the SS Uganda's naval records disappeared for the year 1975. Why? The MI5 agent who stole them says that Stella Rimington (who had become a good friend of Daldry's after the INSET course) decided that the Press were getting too interested in Daldry's private life and were about to expose him for paedophilia. Therefore, any hard evidence had to disappear.
Manningham-Buller was to tell an agent that the Captain involved had 'died young' and apparently of a heart attack in his forties, although he had had no history of heart disease before that and had been a fit and healthy man. She was basically 'warning' the agent to keep quiet.
Stephen Daldry is known by his friends in British theatre to be absolutely open about his predilection for paedophilia. In 1995, one of his Royal Court Theatre directors, had to bring in his young son to work (unable to find a child-minder) and had left the child in the office that he shared with Daldry. When he returned, he found to his horror, that Daldry was sexually molesting his child. Unable to launch a complaint against his boss because he feared losing his job, the director in question, then discreetly began to circulate the information amongst other parents.
As far British Intelligence was concerned, Daldry was and is a valuable asset to them, as an agent in the arts/media world. He was allowed free rein to do his most 'terrible desires' because this meant that he could easily be blackmailed into any 'black ops' i.e. that he would follow any orders unquestioningly, no matter how terrible they were. Those who ran Daldry, therefore turned a blind eye to his paedophilia.
In short, if MI5 or MI6 think that the pay-off is worth it, they tend to keep animals like Daldry on a leash i.e. 'feeding' them once in a while and then sending them out to do another 'job'.
There are pages and pages that could be written about this man and what he has done but the details are simply too sickening and far worse than what has been written here. Suffice to say that British Intelligence agents have given accounts where they were punished for disobeying orders, by having to watch Daldry rape small boys - some as young as 3/4 years old but there are other things that have been reported, which are simply too obscene to mention here.
As far as 'black ops' are concerned, Dalry most infamous moment came in 1994: when MI5 decided to use Daldry's helicopter pilot skills to their benefit. He was the agent who was to tie oily rags around the mechanics of a Chinook military helicopter in order to make it crash and it did, over the Mull of Kintyre - killing 25 'Intelligence' personnel and 4 crew members.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_crash_on_Mull_of_Kintyre
MI6 had originally blamed the Americans on this one, who are still very angry about the whole thing. MI6 then found out who was really guilty and used it to their advantage, in terms of getting Stella Rimington out of office.
Daldry has never been prosecuted for this crime, even though MI6 used their knowledge of his guilt and Rimington's (it was on her orders) in order to secure her resignation in 1996.
