To continue with my occasional derail of this thread...
I've now had a couple of phone calls from a detective constable in the Met - it seems that they are taking my statement very seriously. The trend towards encouragement and reassurance continues, too, with this particular officer being at pains at every turn of the way to assure me that I am at no risk from the parties I've made allegations against, etc. That matters perhaps less to me than it might to others, but I do appreciate it - it's very different from my past encounters with Her Majesty's Finest Constabulary.
Today, I had a call to say that they interviewed one of the parties under caution earlier this week. He apparently replied "No comment" to every question that was put to him. Which means, it seems, that it is almost inevitable that it's going to go to a court case, assuming the CPS decide there's enough evidence to charge.
I did wonder about farming this off to a separate thread, but it seems to me that, as a first-hand narrative of what happens when someone does make a historical allegation of sexual abuse, maybe it fits quite nicely here as a kind of counterpoint to the "big picture" stuff. Which also offers me the advantage that it's a bit more lost in the noise, and rather less blatantly visible than if it had a thread all to itself.