A dossier detailing an alleged Westminster paedophile ring that was passed to Lord Brittan when he was home secretary and later disappeared should be formally investigated, says a former chief prosecutor.
Lord Macdonald of River Glaven QC, the former director of public prosecutions, recommended an official inquiry into the fate of the papers.
He made the call after an MP suggested there had been a “cover-up” at the Home Office to suppress evidence of a network of child abusers, including senior politicians, that operated in the 1980s.
Lord Brittan, a Conservative peer, confirmed on Wednesday that he was handed a “substantial bundle of papers” while he was in office from 1983 to 1985.
The papers were compiled by Geoffrey Dickens, then a Tory MP, who had investigated child-abuse networks.
Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale, has said that the papers contained details of paedophiles operating a network around Westminster.
Lord Brittan said that he passed the file to Home Office officials and asked them to “look carefully” at the material they contained to see if action was needed.
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