Harvey Proctor accuses police of 'homosexual witch hunt'

'I'm a homosexual. I'm not a murderer or a paedophile,' former Tory MP tells reporters

Harvey Proctor
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Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, who has twice been questioned by police over historic child sex abuse and murder claims, has accused police of carrying out a "homosexual witch hunt".

Proctor, who was interviewed as part of an inquiry into claims of a VIP paedophile ring operating in the 1970s and 1980s, insists he is "completely innocent".

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