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Nick Clegg: 'Claims Scotland Yard covered up boy's murder are grotesque'

Deputy Prime Minister describes allegation police ignored tip-off that eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra may have been abducted by a VIP paedophile ring as 'grotesque'

Vishal (left) and Vishambar Mehrotra









By Bill Gardner

9:58AM GMT 19 Nov 2014



The Deputy Prime Minister has described allegations Scotland Yard helped "cover up" the death of an eight-year-old boy at the hands of a Westminster paedophile ring as "grotesque".

Nick Clegg said claims that Vishal Mehrotra might have been abducted and taken to a now notorious guesthouse in 1981 need to be investigated.

Referring to claims first reported in The Telegraph in his weekly phone-in show on radio station LBC, Mr Clegg said: "You can't think of a more serious and grotesque allegation than that, and it clearly needs to be looked into.

"I think it is right for instance in other parts of the country that police officers have been, are now under scrutiny under the magnifying glass, for not having acted in Rotherham for instance."

He added: "We are in the early stages of really a reckoning with our past, of things happening on a scale and of a gravity which just a few months ago would have seemed unimaginable and almost too horrific to contemplate."

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Mr Clegg was responding to claims from Vishambar Mehrotra, a retired magistrate, who recorded a man saying in a telephone call that his nine-year-old son may have been abducted and taken to the now notorious Elm Guest House in July 1981.
He took the recording to police at the time but claims they refused to investigate an allegation implicating "judges and politicians". Mr Mehrotra, now 69, said it had been a "huge cover-up".
Last week the Metropolitan Police announced that they were investigating possible murders linked to the guest house in Barnes, south-west London and other locations across London. The new inquiry began when an alleged victim came forward claiming to have witnessed three boys being killed, including one allegedly strangled by a Conservative MP during a depraved sex game.
Labour MP John Mann added to calls for a thorough investigation into Mr Mehrotra's claims.
He said: "It is another extraordinary development and it tallies with other allegations. This young boy died in terrible circumstances and his family deserve a full police inquiry."
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police has said the force will not comment on an ongoing investigation.