Police to quiz 4 MPs over abuse cover-up

UP TO four serving MPs could be questioned by detectives investigating claims of an Establishment sex ring cover-up.

Their names have been handed to officers probing an alleged conspiracy of silence that protected senior figures for decades.

The MPs are suspected of holding important details about the handling of previous criminal inquiries.

Scotland Yard’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse said officers will go ‘where the evidence takes us, without fear or favour’. He was speaking after the Independent Police Complaints Commission revealed it is looking at Met corruption claims from the 1970s to 2005.

Documents seen by the Mail indicate four serving MPs could be questioned over the 14 Met allegations, including suppressing evidence, hindering or halting investigations and covering up offences. It is understood victims believe they may hold sensitive information about abusers which could further inquiries.

Yesterday it was claimed ex-Rochdale MP Cyril Smith was held and freed seven times in 30 years over paedophile allegations while Welsh MP Leo Abse, who died in 2008, is being investigated after he was named by three alleged child-abuse victims.

It was also alleged that a Royal was identified in a suspected paedophile ring under investigation before it was shut down because it could ‘destabilise national security’.

A serving MP is at the centre of at least one cover-up inquiry, it was claimed, as his name was in documents found at a paedophile’s home in the early 1990s.