Leon Brittan

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Operation Midland, which lasted 18 months and cost the Met at least £2. 5m

The Metropolitan Police referred to The Police watchdog about the investigation into the false claims of a VIP paedophile ring.

if The link refers to why he did not investigate, two Men , apart from the main-wrong Prosecutor Carl Beech said to have lied to the operation of Midland in 2015.

The Force by a retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques .

Beech is now serving 18 years in prison for pervert the course of justice.

The BBC revealed last year That the officers ignored, Sir Richard 's recommendation in regard to The Men , known only as A and B.

has The power, now The Independent office for Police behavior (IOPC) is called, to say, to grasp it, failed to investigate a decision, to The Men , "The Standard required".

A spokesman for the IOPC said it will "carefully examine" Meets the recommendation.

The new referral followed a complaint from ex-MP Harvey Proctor who has lost his job and home after he is falsely accused.

Previously, the Met, the watchdog in the year 2016 called, and the three officers were investigated in the Wake of their role in applying for a search warrant of the suspects ' homes. All three were put out by the IOPC.

Beech - who was known as "Nick" during the investigation, The Police Made false allegations of sexual abuse and murder of a group of deputies, generals, and high-level representatives of the secret services in the 1970s and 1980s.

Operation Midland, which is based on the book ' s, lasted 18 months and cost £2 at least. 5m.

The new referral of a complaint from ex-MP Harvey Proctor

In October, Mr Proctor presented was followed by a series of complaints to Northumbria Police - the investigation of which saw Beech imprisoned since the age of 18 years to pervert the course of justice - But it gave them to Scotland Yard .

Mr Proctor said the former IOPC request had designed a "transparent stitch-up" to be involved in order to relieve the managers.

most of The Other complaints Hit dismiss, But it has now announced That there is a new recommendation.

'Clear evidence'

In a statement, The Force said the records showed "clear evidence" of a careful consideration and clear justification for the non-inclusion of a study in A and B, But "not of the explicit inclusion of this up to the required Standards".

He added to be recorded: "Therefore, a complaint against the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service], and, given the understandable public interest in this case will volunteer to Lead The Independent office for Police referred to".

If the previous IOPC request in operation Midland, completed In July , That no failure had taken place, by three officers, he led to the criticism of Sir Richard Henriques .

He said That a criminal investigation was necessary, as a judge, misled had been, in the granting of a search warrant for the homes of Mr Proctor, D-Day veteran and former chief of the defense staff, Lord Bramall, and widow of former interior Minister Leon Brittan , Lady Diana Brittan.

the Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick was also based on The Police

the watchdog in the last year, Sir Richard's was damning in 2016-report recommended Midland That the met are related to Carl Beech for the investigation by an independent force

In the case of the Beech has been studied in the episode, he was a liar, a cheater and a pedophile.

But the retired judge also recommended That "the offences of attempt to pervert the course of justice, as in the cases of A and B" and it would be for other Police to carry out such investigations.

showed His report That a senior Met officer, Steve Rodhouse, considered A and B as a liar, even if he is still Beech as credible.

However, when the Met closed Midland had referred publicly to the existence of three Complainants and said That "officers have found no evidence to prove That you knowingly deceived".

In December, the now Police , Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick was correct on the question of whether you should have done more, a public statement in 2014 - also a senior Detective - book, That the allegations are "credible and true".

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Source of news: bbc.com