Met ‘looking into’ MP’S call for police inquiry

POLICE are “looking into” allegations against Sir Philip Green, Scotland Yard has confirmed, as pressure grows for them to launch a full investigation.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed it had received a letter detailing allegations of sexual assault, assault and racial abuse made against the billionaire.

It comes after an injunction against The Daily Telegraph was dropped, allowing publication of details of claims made against Sir Philip which included allegations that he had groped a senior female executive and smacked her on the bottom, held another woman in a headlock and told a black man he was “still throwing spears in the jungle”.

Peter Kyle, the Labour MP, wrote to Cressida Dick, the Met commissioner, asking her to investigate. A Met spokes- man said that the commissioner had received the email and “it will be looked into and we will go from there”.

Calls for a Met investigation were backed by a former chief prosecutor, senior police officers and MPS.

Nazir Afzal, the former chief prosecutor for the North West, said that the allegations were on the face of it “clearly” of a criminal nature and if proven could amount to sexual assault and racially aggravated abuse.

A former very senior Met officer said: “These allegations need investigating. They are almost certainly clear breaches of sexual offences acts.”

Lord Falconer, a former justice secretary, said that if the allegations were shown to be true then it would “look like criminal offences and it looks like they were committed regularly”.