STATEMENTS THAT SHOWED HE LIED

ON November , after former police chief Bob Quick claimed pornography had been found on one of Mr Green’s parliamentary computers, he said: ‘This story is completely untrue and comes from a tainted and untrustworthy source.

‘I’ve been aware for some years that the discredited former assistant commissioner Bob Quick has tried to cause me political damage by leaking false information about the raid on my parliamentary office. It is well known that Quick, who was forced to apologise for alleging that the Conservative Party was trying to undermine him, harbours deep resentment about his Press treatment during the time of my investigation.

‘More importantly, the police have never suggested to me that improper material was found on my parliamentary computer, nor did I have a “private” computer, as has been claimed.’ And on November 12, in response to a second story that the Scotland Yard commissioner had been told of the find, Mr Green said: ‘I reiterate that no allegations about the presence of improper material on my parliamentary computers have ever been put to me or to the parliamentary authorities by the police.

‘I can only assume they are being made now, nine years later, for ulterior motives.’