Former British prime minister Edward Heath would have been questioned over claims that he sexually assaulted five boys if he was still alive, UK police say, the latest institutional sex abuse accusations in Britain.
Heath, who was Britain’s premier between 1970 and 1974, would have been interviewed under caution over seven abuse allegations dating between 1961 and 1992, relating to five boys and two adult men, officers revealed Thursday following a massive two-year investigation.
Heath, who died in 2005 aged 89, is alleged to have raped an 11-year-old boy during a paid sexual encounter in 1961 and the indecent assault of a 10-year-old boy in 1962.
In addition, he allegedly sexually assaulted two boys aged 15 in the 1960s, a boy aged 12 in the early 1990s, as well as two adult males in 1976 and 1992..
Of the 42 allegations made against Heath, seven were sufficiently credible to justify the police questioning him under caution.
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