Police face call to issue apology
to get too much up the police’s nose.” Lord Bramall suggested that while police might be guilty of “stupidity”, he and other members of the Establishment may have fallen victim to a “sinister” plot to discredit them.
He said he would press Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe for a full apology – and that his legal team was calling for “Nick” to be charged with wasting police time.
Operation Midland, which has cost taxpayers £2 million, has so far failed to find any evidence to corroborate the allegations.
Det Supt Kenny McDonald, the head of Operation Midland, had said in interviews in December 2014 that the claims of “Nick” were “credible” and “true”.
In September, police admitted calling the claims true had been an error. Last night they went further, declaring: “There are questions as to whether Nick’s claims are credible and true.”
Asked whether “Nick” could now face a criminal investigation for wasting police time, the spokesman said: “At the moment we are keeping an open mind to any allegations brought to us.”
But Scotland Yard refused to apologise to Lord Bramall, insisting “there are no plans” to do so.
Mr Proctor said yesterday he had been informed by police that he remained under investigation. He said this “reeks of vengeance” in retaliation for his decision to hold a press conference in August last year in which he revealed that “Nick” had claimed, among other things, that he had witnessed Mr Proctor strangling a boy at a flat in central London.
“Nick” claimed he had narrowly survived himself when Mr Proctor had attempted to castrate him with a penknife but that Sir Edward Heath, another alleged member of the paedophile gang, had intervened to prevent the murder.
He accused the Met of using “weasel words” in failing to apologise to Lord Bramall.
Mr Proctor said: “The Metropolitan Police Service should be devoting its resources to investigating ‘Nick’, not me.
“Lord Bramall’s mental tribulations are fortunately at an end; mine continue.”