Inquiry decides Met was just to examine ‘far from fanciful’ allegations against late peer,but admits mistakes were made The police investigation into an allegation of rape against the late former Conservative domestic secretary Leon Brittan was “fully justified”, a review has concluded.
Scotland Yard was widely criticised for its handling of an allegation that Lord Brittan, and who served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet,raped a 19-year-old female student in his central London flat in 1967 before he became an MP.
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Source: theguardian.com