Fury as Scotland Yard Set to Bury Damning Child Sex Abuse Report of Incompetence on US Election Day

    Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe

Robert Mendick, chief reporter & Martin Evans - The Telegraph

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has been accused of a cynical cover-up after announcing he will publish a devastating report into Scotland Yard’s inquiry into historic child sex abuse on the day of the US elections.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner disclosed the timing of the report in emails sent on Friday evening to dignitaries and their families who were falsely accused of murder and sexual abuse by a fantasist.

I cannot believe that anybody would be so naive

to think they would get away with this

Senior Scotland Yard source

Operation Midland, which ran for 16 months, collapsed earlier this year but only after police had wrongly raided the home of Field Marshal Lord Bramall, a 92-year-old D-Day veteran; and two houses owned by the widow of Lord Brittan, the former home secretary.

Sir Bernard ordered an inquiry into the catastrophic police failure conducted by Sir Richard Henriques, a retired high court judge.

Field Marshal Lord Bramall CREDIT: GEOFF PUGH

Only parts of the report, heavily edited by Sir Bernard and his team, will be made public on Tuesday.

One senior Metropolitan Police source said it was “laughable” that Sir Bernard was attempting to bury bad news under the cover of the presidential vote.

 Letter from Scotland Yard
“He is treating the public like idiots. It is farcical,” said the source. “This does not smack of competent handling. I cannot believe that anybody would be so naive to think they would get away with this.”

A source close to Operation Midland said: “It is so lamentable it is almost incompetent. It is cretinous they think they can get away with this.”

It is absolutely disgusting that it is deliberately being

released when the eyes of the country will be focused

on the Presidential election.

Daniel Janner QC

A friend of Lord Bramall said: “This doesn’t surprise anybody. Lord Bramall always thought they would bury it in the middle of the American election. And that is exactly what they are doing.”

Daniel Janner QC, whose father Lord Janner was also falsely accused by the fantasist, known only as ‘Nick’ of being a member of the VIP paedophile ring, said: “My family have been waiting for this report for months.

“It is absolutely disgusting that it is deliberately being released when the eyes of the country will be focused on the presidential election.

"The police must be held to account for the way they treated elderly and seriously ill people.”

Harvey Proctor CREDIT: KEN MCKAY/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

Harvey Proctor, the former Tory MP, who spent more than a year under investigation over false claims of sex abuse as well as murder, said: “This is wholly crass, stupid and idiotic. If Scotland Yard think that they can conceal their deficiencies like this it only goes to show how stupid they are.

“Bernard Hogan-Howe should not wait until February, he should resign now and his pension arrangements should be looked at.”

The Henriques report, as previously disclosed by The Telegraph, is expected to question why police spent so long investigating the ludicrous claims made by Nick; castigate a senior officer who initially branded them ‘credible and true’; and condemn the raids on the homes of Lord Bramall, Lord Brittan and Mr Proctor.

Nick had falsely claimed he had witnessed three murders and that on one occasion Mr Proctor had tried to castrate him with a penknife but that Sir Edward Heath, the former prime minister, had intervened to spare him injury. Nick also alleged that the former heads of MI5 and MI6 were involved.

    Lord and Lady Bramall on their wedding day in 1949. Lady Bramall died in July 2015
    not knowing her husband had been exonerated CREDIT: MICHAEL TILLOTSON

Lord Bramall’s wife died in July last year, just four months after the raid on her home and without knowing he had been cleared.

The details of the timing of the publication were disclosed in an email sent by Helen King, an assistant commissioner, to those wrongly accused by Nick.

In the email she wrote: “Our intention is to publish material from the report on Tuesday 8 November. We will be publishing the key findings that Sir Richard has made together with his recommendations and material relating to Operation Midland.”

One can hardly believe all this came about as a result of one uncorroborated witness! Of all the people he accused and all the horrors he accused them of, there had to have been many witnesses. With that kind of judgment, is it any wonder they haven't found any sign of Madeleine McCann?

Woman Drops Lawsuit Claiming Trump Raped Her at Age 13

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump © Carlo Allegri / Reuters

A woman who has sued Donald Trump for raping her when she was 13 years old in 1994 has reportedly dropped her lawsuit. She also earlier canceled a press conference, where she was expected to speak on the allegations, citing “death threats.”

Thomas Francis Meagher, one of the attorneys representing the woman known only under the pseudonym Jane Doe, filed a “voluntary dismissal” notice in district court in New York late Friday.

This is the second child-rape case dismissed against Trump this year. Read into it what you will, but it's curious that the lawyer gave no apparent reason for the dismissal. Jane Doe had attracted several high profile lawyers to her case, but that didn't seem to help.

The civil lawsuit was scheduled for an initial status conference with a New York district court on December 16.

Trump was hit with the lawsuit in June, when Doe accused the GOP nominee and Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire sex offender, of sexually assaulting her at parties held at Epstein’s mansion.

She filed a similar lawsuit in California in April, asking for $100 million in damages, but it was dismissed for technical filing errors. She then filed her complaint in New York.

The woman claimed she attended the events because she was pursuing a modeling career at the time and was promised this would be helpful.

Doe said in her New York lawsuit that Trump tied her to the bed and raped her, despite her pleas for him to stop. She claimed that Trump struck her in the face with an open hand and screamed “that he would do whatever he wanted.” Epstein, she said, raped her twice.

The two then made threats to her and her family, if she was to tell anyone about them, Doe said. 

Details in this case have been kept secret, but Doe was expected to drop the veil this week at a public meeting in Los Angeles. She was supposed to reveal her real identity to the press on Thursday, but the meeting was canceled abruptly.

“Jane Doe has received numerous threats today, as have all the Trump accusers that I have represented. She has decided she is too afraid to show her face. She has been here all day, ready to do it, but unfortunately she is in terrible fear,” Doe’s attorney Lisa Bloom said in a statement, promising to reschedule the meeting.

Bloom’s mother Gloria Allred, also an attorney, is currently representing several women who have accused Trump of sexual assaults.

Events that Doe described in her lawsuits have also been brought up in a complaint from another person.

Coinciding with Doe, an alleged woman named Katie Johnson also filed her lawsuit against both Trump and Epstein in California in April. She accused them of making her their “sex slave,” but like Doe’s, her case was dismissed in May.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has denied Doe’s accusations as well as claims made by other women.