VIP paedophile claims: report criticises Met and Tom Watson

Operation Midland was the Met’s widely criticised investigation into allegations of a VIP paedophile ring. Photograph: Kirsty O'Connor/PAA report on Scotland Yard’s disastrous handling of sexual abuse claims against public figures contains material critical of the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, and castigates police for a string of failings including misleading a judge.Three chapters of Sir Richard Henriques’s report on Operation Midland, the Metropolitan police’s wide