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Lord Brittan: Police probe 'ongoing' despite peer's death

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it will continue to review an historical allegation of rape against former Home Secretary Lord Brittan, despite the peer's death aged 75.

The Conservative peer died at his London home following a long battle with cancer, his family said.

He was recently caught up in a row over allegations that he failed to act on evidence of child abuse by senior figures in Westminster in the 1980s.

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'Cloud of suspicion' hung over Lord Brittan's final days

Former Home Secretary Lord Brittan returned to the public eye in July last year when questions rose over his handling of a dossier handed to him as home secretary in 1983 by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens.

The dossier alleged an VIP ring of paedophiles was operating in the heart of the British establishment.

ITV News Correspondent Paul Davies reports:

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