How could ANYONE believe it? : Leon Brittan s widow Lady Brittan tells MPs it s extraordinary that Met Police pursued fantasist Carl Beech s claims of VIP Westminster paedophile ring - and adds there hasn t been much justice for the falsely-accused
Lady Brittan, former magistrate, said Met failed to properly test Nick s evidence I find it quite extraordinary , told select committee probe into police watchdog
Also said there hasn t been much justice for those who were wrongly accused
Victims of the VIP paedophile scandal accused Priti Patel of shirking her responsibility as Home Secretary last night after she dismissed growing calls for a fresh inquiry.
Miss Patel was under pressure to act after six of her predecessors said confidence in the police had been seriously damaged by Scotland Yard s investigation into false claims by fantasist Nick of a Westminster paedophile ring.
They called for a new investigation into the Metropolitan Police s disastrous Operation Midland probe, which led to raids on the homes of ex-MP Harvey Proctor, former home secretary Leon Brittan and former head of the Armed Forces Lord Bramall.
Scotland Yard s failure to investigate two alleged fantasists who came forward to support liar and paedophile Carl Beech over bogus claims of VIP sex abuse will now be examined by Merseyside Police.
The force will investigate why the Metropolitan Police did not take action against the two men despite Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse, who was then in charge, concluding they were deliberate liars .
The pair, known only as A and B, went to police in September 2015 claiming they could back up Beech s false claims that a VIP paedophile ring had abused and murdered boys in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Nick Bramall gives a mirthless laugh. The murky politics and contradictions of policing have long failed to surprise the son of Field Marshal Lord Bramall MC. But they still appal him. ‘It’s too late for Dad and the other victims, of course,’ he says.
‘Steve Rodhouse has never apologised to us, but he must know what is coming now. He was the man in charge and he should take the rap. I just find it very odd that despite him being involved in so many fiascos, he kept getting promoted.’
So many fiascos? This is a story in which failure apparently breeds success. Almost five years have passed since Operation Midland, the Metropolitan Police’s calamitous investigation into allegations of a VIP sex abuse ring made by an NHS manager called Carl Beech aka ‘Nick’ was officially closed down. On that day, March 21, 2016, the then Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) Rodhouse, who had overall control of Midland, declared: ‘I haven’t seen any evidence to prove that an