| − | Cyril Smith was born in Rochdale, Lancashire in 1928. The ''Daily Mail'' suggested in 2014 that Smith's upbringing with a [[promiscuous]] mother and childhood bullying turned him into a "twisted predator".<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606472/A-promiscuous-mother-childhood-taunts-turned-Cyril-Smith-twisted-predator.html A promiscuous mother and the childhood taunts that turned Cyril Smith into a twisted predator ]</ref> | + | Cyril Smith was born in Rochdale, Lancashire in 1928. The ''Daily Mail'' suggested in 2014 that Smith's upbringing with a [[promiscuous]] mother and childhood bullying turned him into a "twisted predator".<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606472/A-promiscuous-mother-childhood-taunts-turned-Cyril-Smith-twisted-predator.html A promiscuous mother and the childhood taunts that turned Cyril Smith into a twisted predator ]</ref> Smith's father's name is unknown though Smith himself believed he knew who his father was. |