http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ex ... me-5276965The home of ex-Tory MP Harvey Proctor is being searched by cops probing historic allegations of child sex abuse.
Detectives from the Met Police's Operation Midland are carrying out the search of his home, which is within the 16,000-acre grounds of Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire near Grantham.
Mr Proctor, 68, works for the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, who live on the estate with their five children.
A Met Police spokesman said he "can confirm officers from Operation Midland are carrying out a search of an address in Grantham in connection with their inquiries".
Operation Midland was launched by the Met last November following allegations that boys were sexually abused by a paedophile ring more than 30 years ago.
Part of the Operation Midland probe is examining allegations that three boys linked to the alleged ring were murdered.
The operation includes detectives from the child abuse investigation command and the homicide and major crime command.
Sources close to the probe said last night the MP had not been arrested.
Speaking to the BBC this morning, he denied being part of a "rent-boy ring" .
He told Radio 4's Today programme: "I find myself in a very Kafka-esque fantasy situation.
"The police have said basically that they are investigating historical sex abuse allegations going back to the 1970s and 1980s.
"I have never attended sex parties at Dolphin Square or anywhere else. I have not been part of any rent-boy ring with Cabinet ministers, other Members of Parliament or generals or the military.
"I conducted my private life in a discreet manner. It wasn't I who outed myself, it was the press who did an assortment of things to out me.
"I was a discreet person and regarded in the House of Commons as a very independent MP and a loner. The last thing I would have dreamed of doing was talking to other MPs or ministers or anyone else about my private life. It wasn't that I was ashamed of being a homosexual, it was that I didn't think it mattered a damn to the work I did on behalf of my constituents."
Mr Proctor said he was keen to be interviewed by police as soon as possible to clear his name.
"The police wish to interview me," he said. "They talked in terms of that interview taking place in a matter of weeks. I asked for that interview to take place at the earliest opportunity."
Ex-Tory MP Harvey Proctor denies any role in Westminster abuse ringDetectives from Met’s Operation Midland inquiry into historical abuse allegations search Proctor’s Leicestershire home
Vikram Dodd and Mark Tran
Thursday 5 March 2015 11.57 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... se-inquiryThe former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor has denied having been part of any rent-boy ring or any knowledge of a VIP paedophile network alleged to have existed in Westminster, after his home was searched by police on Thursday.
Proctor, who left parliament in 1987 after pleading guilty to acts of gross indecency, took the unusual step of talking to the media about the search of his Grantham home by police investigating historical allegations of child sex abuse.
A Metropolitan police spokesman confirmed that officers from Operation Midland were carrying out a search of an address in Grantham.
The Met launched Operation Midland last November following allegations that boys were sexually abused by a paedophile ring centred at a number of addresses more than 30 years ago. An alleged victim of sexual abuse claimed to have witnessed the murder of a 12-year-old boy by a Conservative MP, and said two other boys had been murdered by members of a paedophile network.
One of those addresses was the Dolphin Square apartment block near the Houses of Parliament. Detectives have received claims that have led them to investigate other addresses, to establish whether they can be ruled in or out of their inquiries. The strand of the inquiry that led to Proctor’s home being searched is believed to concern a location other than Dolphin Square.
Proctor, 68, works for the Duke and Duchess of Rutland and lives in a house within the 16,000-acre grounds of their home Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire, near Grantham.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I find myself in a very Kafka-esque fantasy situation … I have never attended sex parties at Dolphin Square or anywhere else. I have not been part of any rent-boy ring with cabinet ministers, other members of parliament or generals or the military.
“I conducted my private life in a discreet manner … The last thing I would have dreamed of doing was talking to other MPs or ministers or anyone else about my private life.”
Proctor said he was keen to be interviewed by police as soon as possible to clear his name. Police would not say why they had chosen to search his home, and he is understood not to have been arrested.
Asked whether he had been aware during his time in parliament of the existence of a VIP paedophile ring, Proctor told Today: “Absolutely not, no. If I had known about it at the time, I would have contacted the police. I believe the number of victims grows by the day, and the number of alleged perpetrators – through death – diminishes.”
Proctor pointed out that that his guilty pleas related to homosexual activity with men whom he believed to be above the then age of consent of 21, and who were older than the current age of consent of 16.
“I pleaded guilty to four charges of gross indecency in 1987,” he said. “Those offences related entirely to the age of consent for homosexuality. That age has since been reduced, first to 18 and now to 16.”
Proctor became an MP in 1979, representing Basildon in Essex for four years. He then represented Billericay until 1987. He also sat on the executive of the rightwing pressure group the Monday Club.
So far the only politician to have been implicated is the Liberal MP Cyril Smith, who died in 2010.
Nazi, Pedo, Conspiracyhttp://progcontra.blogspot.co.uk/2014/0 ... iracy.htmlTuesday, July 08, 2014
With all the hysteria about historic child abuse - and persistent rumours of cover-ups and conspiracy - I'm starting to wonder whether the spotlight will eventually turn to one dark corner of 1970's Britain that most people seem to have forgotten existed: the far-Right. Now most people will associate neo-Nazism with the most extreme homophobia, but it's also a fact that the far-Right has been riddled with gay men in leading roles. And, it has to be said, some of these gay men had a penchant for teenage boys.
Off the top of my head, I can name Martin Webster (then a leading figure in the National Front), Ray Hill (at the time in the British Movement, later to be outed as working for the state), Peter Marriner and Nicky Crane. All were gay men in leading roles in the neo-Nazi movement, and all were associated with rumours of involvement with under-age boys. And, for example, there were persistent rumours that right-wing Tory MP Harvey Proctor had had links with the National Front, who procured boys for him. Another name from the neo-Nazi scene who is rumoured to be linked to the Elm House scandal is Colin Jordan, one-time World Fuhrer of the Nazi scene.
The combination of secrecy, danger and access to tough young men made the Nazi scene a magnet for some paedophiles - and they made sure they exploited it to the hilt. For those of us on the anti-fascist side of things, there was surprisingly very little made about this at the time. Perhaps it was an unwillingness to be seen to be engaging in activity that might be interpreted as 'homophobic' -- or at the very least to be siding with the Daily Mail and its ilk.
Procter was also funded post-"outing" in a gentleman's shirt emporium by rich contacts in the Tory Party located in Richmond......the borough that plays host to.....Elm Guest House