Scotland Yard was last night accused of attempting to bury bad news as it plans to release a report into its disgraced VIP child sex abuse inquiry on the day of the US presidential election.
Operation Midland saw a number of high-profile people falsely accused of murder and rape by a suspected fantasist known as Nick.
A summary of the independent review into the inquiry is to be published on Tuesday, coinciding with the American vote.
Scotland Yard: The Met Police’s decision to make the report public during a busy news period provoked a furious response following previous controversies about media manipulation
The Met’s decision to make the report public during such a busy news period provoked a furious response last night following previous controversies about media manipulation.
In January, the force denied allegations that it had tried to deflect attention by announcing late on a Friday that ex-Army chief Lord Bramall, 92, had been cleared of Nick’s baseless claims of abuse.
And last month the force was embroiled in a censorship row after a senior officer said it would release only a summary of the abuse report – compiled by retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques – once it had considered whether it agreed with the findings.
Daniel Janner, whose late father, the Labour peer Lord Greville Janner, was the subject of false allegations by Nick, said: ‘My family have been waiting for this report for months.
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