... and the ex-Met chief’s reaction? Get off my land!
HE is the former Met Police boss at the centre of a storm over controversial raids on VIPs during the disastrous police inquiry into alleged abuse.
But yesterday when the Mail approached Lord Hogan-Howe over claims of a possible perversion of justice he refused to comment.
He tetchily stated: ‘Leave my property immediately!’ Lord Hogan-Howe – commissioner at Scotland Yard from 2011 until 2017 – refused to answer any questions about the devastating claims by ex-High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques. The horse-loving peer was approached at his remote home in a Dorset village. He had just received an item from a parcel delivery driver when he lost his cool. The reporter waited until the driver had left and was out of earshot before walking up to the door of his converted barn with stunning Jurassic Coast views.
When he introduced himself, making it clear he was from the Daily Mail, Lord Hogan-Howe interrupted abruptly.
He pointed with his left hand to the gateway at the end of his gravelled drive and told the reporter to go away. The journalist said it was important he was given every opportunity to respond to Sir Richard’s allegations about a possible perversion of the course of justice.
But Lord Hogan-Howe, 61, who has forged a lucrative career in business since leaving the Met, refused to listen and talked over the top of the reporter, adding: ‘I have told you to leave my property. Leave my property immediately!’