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Ex-UK PM investigated over child abuse

File image of Edward Heath, former UK prime minister

British police say they have been investigating former prime minister Edward Heath as part of an inquiry into historical child sex abuse allegations.

The allegations against the late former prime minister are part of Operation Midland, which was set up to deal with claims of murder by a Westminster pedophile ring that systematically abused children.

According to the British media, police has received a number of calls after issuing an appeal.

Four police officers are said to have been investigating the case.

Edward Heath is accused of having raped a 12-year old back in the 1970s, when he was in office.

The former Tory PM who died in 2005, is the most high profile figure to be accused of historical child sex abuse so far.

Meanwhile, the States of Jersey Police has announced that Edward Heath forms part of Operation Whistle - its investigation into historical allegations of abuse in Jersey.

A number of the claims within the overall probe relate to abuse "within institutions or by people of public prominence", the Jersey force has been quoted as saying by the media.

The investigation includes 45 suspects - some of whom are dead or currently unidentified.

 

Former BBC presenter Jimmy Saville has been branded as one of the UK's most prolific known sexual predators.© AFP

 

Historical allegations of child abuse have been on the rise following the revelation of former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile’s scandal.

Savile has been branded as one of the UK’s most prolific known sexual predators. Following his death in 2011, hundreds of allegations of sex abuse and rape of minors by him became public.

 


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