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The programme, broadcast on Tuesday night, also drew criticism from the Met Police, which said it had “serious concerns about the impact of this programme on its investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse and homicide, on the witnesses involved, and on the willingness of victims of abuse to come forward to police”.
The documentary interviewed an individual named as David who said that campaigners may have led him into making false sex abuse claims.
He told the programme he had provided VIP names – including that of ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan – “as a joke suggestion to start with”.
Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Media Show yesterday, Watts suggested the documentary was guilty of “pre-judging” the outcome of the Met’s Operation Midland.
He said this was in "contravention" of a warning issued by the Attorney General’s Office last month.
Watts also suggested this kind of “attack” could lead to victims in future being “deterred from coming forward”. (more...)
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