UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Homes of Leon Brittan and former armed forces chief ‘searched by police investigating child sex allegations’
By JENNIFER NEWTON FOR MAILONLINE
The homes of Leon Brittan and the former head of the armed forces have reportedly been searched by police investigating child sex allegations.
Officers raided two properties belonging to the former Home Secretary in London and North Yorkshire earlier this week, just six weeks after his death aged 75.
Meanwhile at the same time, a house in Surrey, owned by Lord Bramall, once the Army’s highest ranking officer, was also searched.
It came on the same day as police also targeted the home of former disgrced Tory MP Harvey Proctor, where detectives spent two days searching his grace-and-favour home at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire after a police team arrived on the estate on Wednesday.
The raids were conducted by officers from Operation Midland, which was set up by the Metropolitan Police in November to investigate claims of a VIP Westminster child sex abuse ring in the 1970s and 1980s.
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