Police told me there was no proof of VIP abuse ring, says Harvey Proctor

FORMER Conservative MP Harvey Proctor claims he was told by police that there was never a Westminster child sex ring.

Earlier this month he said he was considering taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police for being falsely accused in the VIP abuse inquiry.

But Mr Proctor has now been assured a police investigation found no proof that he and late ex-prime minister Sir Edward Heath were involved in the alleged abuse scandal.

And the former Tory MP has come forward and said police told him they found ‘no evidence of a Westminster child sexual abuse ring’. Wiltshire Police Chief Constable Mike Veale said neither he nor his colleagues have ever made such claims and had not wished to create that impression.

The force’s probe, Operation Conifer, concluded that seven claims against Sir Edward would have been sufficiently credible to justify questioning him under caution, if he were still alive today.

But in correspondence seen by the Press Association, Mr Veale confirmed Mr Proctor had not been investigated by his officers as part of the probe. The ex-MP welcomed the assurances and said: ‘I am very pleased I have obtained clarification and transparency from Mr Veale and Wiltshire Police.

‘ Contrary to the witch- hunting instincts and fantasy-inducing aberrations of certain current MPs, Conservative and Labour, certain journalists and internet fantasists, when police force after police force investigate these matters they find no evidence of a Westminster child sexual abuse ring’.

Mr Proctor wrote to Wiltshire Police last month seeking a string of clarifications over the matter. Mr Veale replied: ‘No evidence was found during the investigation to substantiate any suspicions nor did either I or my colleagues express such views during press briefings and interviews.

‘There was certainly no intention that any such impression should be created so your reassurance, whilst welcome, is unnecessary’.