{"id":225381,"date":"2016-02-16T21:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=225381"},"modified":"2016-02-16T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:58:36","slug":"met-investigate-abuse-allegations-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/met-investigate-abuse-allegations-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"Met to investigate abuse allegations handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Mounting pressure on the Metropolitan police over its mishandling of historic allegations of sexual abuse against public figures has forced it to open\u00a0a judge-led inquiry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Met announced the inquiry\u2019s findings would be regarded as private for its commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and only a small part of it will be published.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Guardian, the review follows fierce criticism of the Met\u2019s handling of rape and sexual abuse allegations against the former Conservative home secretary Leon Brittan\u00a0and the former military chief Lord Bramall. Both men were investigated following complaints by two individuals but not charged, leading to claims they were unfairly treated and subjected to a witch-hunt.<\/p>\n<p>The retired judge Sir Richard Henriques will examine how police forces can maintain the confidence of victims, while avoiding the appearance of believing any story they are told.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe<span style=\"color: #767676;\">\u00a0<\/span>said the aim was \u201cwhether we can provide a better balance between our duty to investigate and the interests of suspects, complainants and victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/10\/449622\/Met-investigates-abuse-allegations-handling\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mounting pressure on the Metropolitan police over its mishandling of historic allegations of sexual abuse against public figures has forced it to open\u00a0a judge-led inquiry. Met announced the inquiry\u2019s findings would be regarded as private for its commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and only a small part of it will be published. According to the Guardian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}