Girl of 14 molested in his bathroom

FREUD lured a 1 -year-old girl to his home, got her drunk and molested her in the bathroom, her sister claimed yesterday. It was Boxing Day 1976 and Lady Freud and the children were away, leaving the MP alone.

The sister told the Mail yesterday how she, then 18, the 1 -year-old and their mother were invited to his house near Lord’s cricket ground in St John’s Wood.

Despite their mother being teetotal and her sister being underage, Freud made them a fruit cocktail laced with alcohol. They all got very drunk and the woman, now in her 50s, claims she caught Freud groping her sister in his bathroom. ‘Basi- cally he separated us all,’ she said. ‘Although I was drunk too, I realised something was up and went off to look for my sister.

‘He had her in the bathroom and was molesting her. I got her away and managed to phone a friend for help. I think his intention was to grope all three of us. I remember thinking it was strange there was no one else in the house over Christmas.’

The invitation was the culmination of a grooming process that began when she met Freud in the Playboy club in the West End nearly four decades ago. ‘Freud invited me to Stocks, the Playboy mansion in Hertfordshire. He also took me to his house in his constituency in Ely where he cooked dinner for me and to a flat in Soho.

‘I knew who he was because he was on the television a lot. I suppose I was rather naive about what he was up to. I must have known he was a family man.’

She says Freud took her out on a string of dates, before he started to include her younger sister. The woman’s claims could not be independently verified last night, but the details chime with separate claims she would not have been aware of.

Although she was not molested herself, she is the third person to claim he used his family home to carry out attacks.