Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor claims he was told by police that there was never a Westminster child sexual abuse ring.
It comes after he said earlier this month that he was considering taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police for being falsely accused in the VIP sex abuse inquiry.
But Mr Proctor has now been assured a police investigation found no proof that he and late ex-prime minister Sir Edward Heath were involved in the alleged historic child abuse scandal, after he was investigated for the first time.
And now the former Tory MP has come forward and said police told him they found ‘no evidence of a Westminster child sexual abuse ring’.
Wiltshire Police Chief Constable Mike Veale said neither he nor his colleagues have ever made such claims and had not wished to create that impression.
Mr Proctor (pictured) has now been assured a police investigation found no proof that he and late ex-prime minister Sir Edward Heath were involved in the alleged historic child abuse scandal, after he was investigated for the first time
The force’s probe, Operation Conifer, concluded that seven claims against Sir Edward, who was Conservative prime minister between 1970 and 1974, would have been sufficiently credible to justify questioning him under caution, if he were still alive today.
But in correspondence seen by the Press Association, Mr Veale confirmed Mr Proctor had not been investigated by his officers as part of the probe.
The ex-MP welcomed the assurances and said: ‘I am very pleased I have obtained clarification and transparency from Mr Veale and Wiltshire Police.
‘Contrary to the witch-hunting instincts and fantasy-inducing aberrations of certain current MPs, Conservative and Labour, certain journalists and internet fantasists, when police force after police force investigate these matters they find no evidence of a Westminster child sexual abuse ring’.
‘The reason being, as I made clear on August 25 2015, there wasn’t one’, he added.
Mr Proctor was told in a letter from Mr Veale: ‘During the course of the investigation we received information from 14 forces in relation to alleged abuse committed by Sir Edward Heath and within those disclosures from some victims there were also allegations against a number of other persons of public prominence.
‘Three forces supplied Operation Conifer with disclosures from victims that included allegations made against you.’
One of the forces was the Metropolitan Police, whose £2.5 million Operation Midland inquiry into claims made by a single accuser, known only as ‘Nick’, of a high-level paedophile ring linked to Westminster, closed without a single arrest.
Wiltshire Police’s probe, Operation Conifer, concluded that seven claims against Sir Edward Heath (pictured), who was Conservative prime minister between 1970 and 1974, would have been sufficiently credible to justify questioning him under caution, if he were still alive today
Mr Proctor was cleared and received an apology in 2016 from then Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
Mr Veale told Mr Proctor Essex Police also shared information with operations Midland and Conifer ‘relating to a victim who had made allegations against a number of persons including Sir Edward Heath and yourself’.
Mr Proctor said: ‘I was not informed about this by the Metropolitan Police or Essex Police, nor was I questioned by the Metropolitan Police or Essex Police about this allegation.
‘Wiltshire Police did not speak to the fantasist Nick or to the complainant to Essex Police’.
A third force, Greater Manchester Police, also shared information with Wiltshire Police, in which Mr Proctor was the subject of an allegation, according to Mr Veale.
Mr Proctor said: ‘Greater Manchester Police (GMP) closed their investigation of me (and apparently Sir Edward) without interviewing me and without the courtesy of informing me of its demise.
‘This allegation involved Rochdale, a place I have no recollection of ever visiting.
‘When GMP were asked for a ‘missing’ email they claim they had sent to my solicitors about the matter being closed, the GMP could not locate a copy’.
Late former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath is pictured in the House of Commons
He wrote to Wiltshire Police last month seeking a string of clarifications, in a letter that concluded: ‘I hope you will accept my assurance that contrary to what appears to be your public suspicions at Wiltshire Police’s press conference on Operation Conifer, no Westminster VIP CSA ring existed involving the late Sir Edward Heath and myself in the 1970s and 1980s.
‘It is pure fantasy to suggest otherwise’.
Addressing the comment, Mr Veale replied: ‘No evidence was found during the investigation to substantiate any suspicions nor did either I or my colleagues express such views during press briefings and interviews.
‘There was certainly no intention that any such impression should be created so your reassurance, whilst welcome, is unnecessary’.
Last month it was revealed that police are spending £81million a year on historic investigations.
The money is being used during inquiries into sex abuse, paedophile conspiracies, undercover policing and the Hillsborough tragedy.