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Britten had close, long-term links with the infamous Kray gangsters, who operated protection rackets and a pimping business supplying boys to homosexuals in London and elsewhere. The police uncovered a large-scale juvenile pimping operation centered on a house owned by Ronnie Kray in the Suffolk village of Tattington. This house was fairly close to where Britten lived. Some of the boys were obtained via a close friend of Benjamin Britten's in London, who named him as one of the beneficiaries of the 'service'. Bill Murphy writes, "What was involved was the systematic abuse of ten-to-twelve-year-old boys, one of whom subsequently became fairly well known as a singer. Another, rather less fortunate, wound up in six pieces in two suitcases... At least two other people died in the aftermath of Bernard's murder as the [Kray] twins sealed up the leaks." The murdered boy referred to was called Bernard Oliver and the source is police files. <ref>http://listserv.bccls.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9709E&L=OPERA-L&P=58232</ref>

Britten had close, long-term links with the infamous Kray gangsters, who operated protection rackets and a pimping business supplying boys to homosexuals in London and elsewhere. The police uncovered a large-scale juvenile pimping operation centered on a house owned by Ronnie Kray in the Suffolk village of Tattington. This house was fairly close to where Britten lived. Some of the boys were obtained via a close friend of Benjamin Britten's in London, who named him as one of the beneficiaries of the 'service'. Bill Murphy writes, "What was involved was the systematic abuse of ten-to-twelve-year-old boys, one of whom subsequently became fairly well known as a singer. Another, rather less fortunate, wound up in six pieces in two suitcases... At least two other people died in the aftermath of Bernard's murder as the [Kray] twins sealed up the leaks." The murdered boy referred to was called Bernard Oliver and the source is police files. <ref>http://listserv.bccls.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9709E&L=OPERA-L&P=58232</ref>

Britten lived with a long-term partner, the singer Peter Pears, who was also homosexual, but like most such relationships it was not sexually exclusive. Pears seems to have shared Britten's taste for boys, making them into a classic example of homosexual pedophile partnerships. In a TV program produced by John Bridcut and broadcast in 2013, colleagues remember how Britten and Pears both got in a lather of erotic excitement about the boy singers while working on his opera ''Death in Venice'', a story he chose for its discreet homosexual theme. <ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hj038 </ref>

Britten lived with a long-term partner, the singer Peter Pears, who was also homosexual, but like most such relationships it was not sexually exclusive. Pears seems to have shared Britten's taste for boys, making them into a classic example of homosexual pedophile partnerships. In a TV program produced by John Bridcut and broadcast in 2013, colleagues remember how Britten and Pears both got in a lather of erotic excitement about the boy singers while working on his opera ''Death in Venice'', a story he chose for its homoerotic pederastic theme. <ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hj038 </ref>

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