Ex-Tory MP Harvey Proctor questioned by police

A former Tory MP whose home in Leicestershire was searched in March this year has been quizzed for a second time by detectives investigating historical allegations of child sex abuse.

Harvey Proctor said the claims had “wrecked” his life and called for senior police officers to resign.

Their inquiry, Operation Midland, is examining allegations against several high-profile figures and centres on claims that children were sexually abused at properties in Dolphin Square near Westminster and at other locations in London and the Home Counties.

Mr Proctor accused Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, of shedding “crocodile tears” when criticising the IPCC and Wiltshire Police for naming Heath as a suspect.

He held a press conference to address the issue, saying he wanted to end the “drip, drip, drip” of information in the media.

Mr Proctor was interviewed under caution by Metropolitan Police officers as part of Operation Midland, which was launched following allegations of a VIP paedophile ring.

Mr Proctor has taken the unusual step of publicly detailing the allegations that have been made against him, including claims of torture, murder and that he was connected to a child abuse network that operated in Westminster.

Mr Proctor represented the Basildon constituency in Essex from 1979 to 1983 and Billericay from 1983 to 1987.

Mr Proctor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and has previously expressed “disbelief and disgust” at what he described as “the growing paranoia among various police ‘organisations”‘ in relation to such investigations.

Scotland Yard, who did not name Mr Proctor, said a man in his 60s had attended an interview by appointment earlier today and had not been arrested. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police stressed that he had not been arrested.

The former MP – who left Parliament in 1987 after pleading guilty to acts of gross indecency – has called a press conference for tomorrow at which he is expected to criticise police once more.

Mr Proctor said the police should stop referring to victims of alleged historic sexual abuse as victims as start calling them complainants.

He went on: “The Police involved in Operation Midland are in a cleft stick of their own making”. We are not prepared to discuss further’.