POLICE CHIEF WHO’S TALKING 120 PER CENT TRIPE

JUST when you thought the authorities had begun to recover from their obsession with so-called celebrity child abuse, it becomes clear they are still in thrall.

Last week, we learned that the Local Government Association has instructed councils not to name streets after individuals (including fallen soldiers) in case they are later linked to ‘inappropriate activities’.

The LGA is still terribly scarred by the fact that some streets had to be renamed after the late Jimmy Savile was exposed as a sexual predator. So it’s goodbye to Nelson Mandela Drive: you can’t be too careful. And yesterday, we were told that the Chief Constable of Wiltshire, Mike Veale, is ‘120 per cent certain’ that the late Prime Minister Ted Heath was ‘guilty of vile sexual crimes’.

Anyone ‘120 per cent sure’ of guilt before an investigation is complete is one lousy detective (as well as being unable to count).

It is reminiscent of Detective Superintendent Kenny McDonald, who broadcast that the claims of someone called ‘Nick’, which included the allegation that Ted Heath was part of a childmurdering gang, were ‘credible and true’. ‘Nick’ is now helping police with their inquiries — into false allegations.

Yet we were told, yesterday, of the immense significance of photos revealing Ted Heath driving a car. Many of Heath’s former colleagues had earlier said it was inconceivable for him to have committed such crimes, as he was driven everywhere by Special Branch detectives and would not have had the freedom to do dastardly deeds.

As far as I can see, all these photos prove is that Ted Heath could indeed drive. Even if he did so without a licence, this would not amount to a crime worth investigating years after his death.