The UK police’s monitoring body says it will investigate whether the British law enforcement failed to probe an allegation of child sex abuse against former prime minister Edward Heath in the 1990s.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it had received an allegation “that a criminal prosecution was not pursued, when a person threatened to expose that Sir Edward Heath may have been involved in offenses concerning children.”
Heath, a Conservative, was prime minister between 1970 and 1974 and had a home in Wiltshire county. He died in 2005, aged 89.
The IPCC is now set to investigate Wiltshire Police’s handling of the allegation.
This is while the Wiltshire Police force has said it is trying to find “witnesses or victims who support the allegations of child sex abuse,” and urged victims to come forward.