Moment police heavy mob moved in on Brittan’s home

THIS is the astonishing scene on the drive of Leon Brittan’s home when a Scotland Yard search team turned up mob-handed six weeks after he died.

Officers brought two minibuses, two vans and at least two cars to the former home secretary’s weekend retreat. A district judge had granted them a search warrant after being supplied with false information.

Over two days the detectives turned the property upside down looking for evidence that the peer had been part of a murderous VIP paedophile gang.

According to sources, they emptied the attic and took away private letters, copies of speeches and treasured pictures. They removed footwear for ‘DNA testing’.

The exclusive picture obtained by the Daily Mail was taken from a firstfloor window during the raid that also saw officers carry out a finger-tip search of the garden in the hunt for ‘disturbed earth’.

The search warrant was granted on the uncorroborated word of Carl Beech, a paedophile and serial liar. Police told the judge he was a consistent and credible witness. At the same time as the North Yorkshire raid in early March 2015, officers on Operation Midland raided Lord Brittan’s home in central London, which he shared with his wife of 34 years, Lady Brittan. The peer had died there of cancer aged 75 on January 21.

Last week, in a victim impact statement read to court after Beech was imprisoned for 18 years for his lies and other offences, Lady Brittan laid bare her suffering.

She said: ‘The experience of having my house in London searched by a dozen police officers for 12 hours was traumatizing. The impact of these allegations and their consequences on my wider family were significant.’