FORMER MP HARVEY PROCTOR TO SUE THE MET POLICE OVER HISTORIC CHILD SEX ABUSE ALLEGATIONS

Former MP Harvey Proctor has said he will sue the Metropolitan Police over their handling of the investigation into historical child sex abuse allegations against him.

Mr Proctor told ITV News he had been "mentally and physically destroyed" by the claims that he was part of a Westminster paedophile ring.

He said he planned to sue for loss of earnings and his home, and criticised the police for failing to respond to his lawyers' petition for compensation.

Harvey Proctor said he planned to sue for loss of earnings and his home, and criticised the police for failing to respond to his lawyers' petition for compensation.

It comes after Northumbria Police said they had passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to decide if charges of perverting the course of justice and fraud will be brought against Mr Proctor's accuser, known as "Nick". "These are difficult matters and I wouldn't want to negotiate on television what my lawyers are trying to settle with the lawyers for the police," he said.

"But it obviously has to take account of the fact that a job I loved doing I can no longer do. I fully intended to work for another 10 years doing that job.

"It's a job, not a physical job, and I could have done that. Also the house that went with the job, I expected to die in that house. I have no home now.

Mr Proctor planned to sue for loss of earnings and his home, and criticised the police for failing to respond to his lawyers' petition for compensation. 

"I feel destroyed ... mentally and physically destroyed because of the gravity of the allegations that were made against me.

"I don't think anyone can say more evil things about another human being. That he had committed child sex abuse, the torture of children and the serial murder of three children. Horrible and it haunts me. And it is a festering wound that I'm fighting very hard to recover from.

"Nothing can undo the damage done to me."

Last week, the Met announced it had agreed to pay Lord Bramall and Lady Brittan - the widow of Lord Brittan - £100,000 each in compensation for raiding their homes during Operation Midland.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We have received a letter of claim and have been in recent communication with Mr Proctor's legal representatives. We do not recognise what Mr Proctor has said about the delay."