‘He abused me and other teenage boys during sex parties’
LEON Brittan abused teenage boys during sex parties which are at the heart of claims of an Establishment paedophile ring, it was claimed yesterday.
The Tory peer was accused of attending the orgies at the now notorious Dolphin Square luxury apartment complex in Westminster.
A key witness ‘Nick’, who has been described by police as ‘credible’, told investigative website Exaro he was raped ‘more than a dozen times’. He said Lord Brittan ‘would treat me like I was not even human’. And he added that the peer was ‘nasty, cruel, sadistic and hateful’.
Asked how he had identified him, Nick said: ‘Well, he told me. Not his full name. He told me that it was Leon. And it was only later in my adult life that I knew who it was.’
He alleged that Lord Brittan attacked him from the age of 11. He said he witnessed other boys, all aged under 14, being abused as well. Nick has been interviewed at length by Scotland Yard detectives investigating allegations of sex abuse by the rich and powerful. Last month they sensationally revealed that they found his claims of abuse, rape and even the murder of three boys to be ‘credible and true’.
Lord Brittan has now been accused of being present at three venues where the alleged abuse of underage boys took place. In a separate development yesterday, a former police officer claimed he was photographed entering a second sex den.
The Tory former Cabinet minister, who was also a former European Commission vice-president, was said to have been caught on camera during a surveillance operation focusing on rent boys around Kings Cross in North London.
Police suspected young men were being trafficked around the capital and preyed upon in rented flats and garages by groups of men.
And a schoolboy has claimed he was repeatedly molested at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, South-West London, by a man called ‘Uncle Leon’.
The youngster made the comments in a police interview in 1982 but they were left out of his formal statement, despite being witnessed by officers and a social worker.
The mystery omission, suspected to refer to Lord Brittan, came to light when the Met began an investigation in 2013 into activities at the guest house, where a VIP paedophile ring is said to have operated.