Lord Bramall 'owed apology over dropped child sex investigation'

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said Lord Bramall is owed a "proper apology" for his treatment during the Metropolitan Police's child sex probe.

He said the former armed forces chief had been subject to "maximum pain" as a result of the mishandling of an investigation into claims he was part of a ring of high-profile child abusers.

The 92-year-old saw the allegations against him dropped due to a lack of evidence, although critics blame the Met for putting the D-Day veteran through the trauma of a 10-month inquiry.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, Mr Fallon said: "Somebody, somewhere owes Lord Bramall a proper apology for a case that clearly was badly handed... Clearly he was mistreated extremely badly.

"The case itself it seems to have been handled very clumsily to cause maximum pain to the field marshal, and somebody somewhere owes him an apology."

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