Kiddy-fiddling; police hot on the trail

The police are back on the trail of claims of child abuse and worse which are of considerable antiquity and absorb such an amount of manpower resources that the Old Bill is quite unable to investigate petty crimes such as burglary.

 

Now they are after poor old Harvey Proctor, the former Tory MP for Basildon and Billericay. At a press conference, Harvey revealed that he was alleged to have been a member of a gang of big-shots who regularly raped, assaulted and murdered teenage boys in posh surroundings like Dolphin Square.

 

The gang is supposed to have included Edward Heath (well, it would, wouldn’t it!), Leon Brittan (ditto), and the Heads of MI5 and MI6, the former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Bramall, and General Sir Hugh Beach. No doubt dotty old Lord Janner might expect a call from the Met in due course.

 

The fact is that Harvey and Ted couldn’t abide each other. HP was an acolyte of Enoch Powell and well to the right of the Tory Party.

 

HP was forced to resign from Parliament after being convicted and fined for homosexual offences that would not be offences today.

 

All this is alleged to have taken place around 30 years ago.

 

Then there is the complete farce of the police ‘enquiries’ into alleged paedophile activities by Ted Heath. No less than five police forces are involved.

 

This has been not merely absurd but outrageous. What possessed the Wiltshire police to hold a photo-call for the media outside Heath’s former residence if not simply grandstanding? Never mind ruining the reputation of a man who devoted his life to public service so long as plod can get the front page.

 

And yet Heath had constant 24-hour police  protection for the whole time that he was prominent in politics until his death. There was a police car outside his house at all times. I saw it every time I walked by his house in Salisbury.

 

So how come the Special Branch boys never spotted Ted sneaking off for a bit of kiddy-fiddling.

 

Then we turn to the interminable inquiry into child abuse at a children’s’ home in Jersey. It is alleged that Ted was at it there, too. Except that the only time he is known to have visited Jersey was in his yacht, Morning Cloud. He carried a large crew and yet we are asked to believe that not one of them noticed was Ted was up to.

 

The whole enquiry could have been a ‘Carry-on’ film script. The Jersey rozzers had got the idea that there were mass graves near the children’s home, so they started digging. It would seem that the original holes were dug as part of a location scene for a TV police series (Bergerac?).

 

Then they found some human remains that got them rather excited until it turned out that they had been there since about the 15^th Century.

 

Will we next hear that the Met is investigating the murders in London of two small boys and that the chief suspect is believed to be one Richard Plantagenet?

 

Maybe the police should be charged under Section 5 of the Criminal Law Act.

 

Wasting police time!