Leon (censored) Brittan has died.

The people who "instructed from above" were right. He was on his last legs.

Nothing against him would get to trial. Was he really going to say anything that implicated anyone else?

If he was, what was the chance that evidence would survive "Now tell me Inspector Plod, was Lord Brittan being prescribed morphine at the time when he suggested that Margaret Thatcher was engaging in a lesbian threesome with Ulrike Meinhof and an underage girl in General Galtieri's villa?"

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You don't think it could have helped with their inquiries??

I would be very surprised if he could (or would) have said anything useful at this stage of any enquiries.

Why not? What stage?

The stage is that the police enquiries appear to be barely underway yet.

Police interviewing isn't like Hercule Poirot. Unwilling witnesses want to close down questioning, rather than give full accounts of themselves. There is no point in interviewing someone until you can move the witness away from a blank denial or lack of memory. What policemen do is ask questions and see if those answers agree with other evidence they have. If they don't they put the other piece of evidence to the witness and see whether that changes the story. Then they move on to the next area where they have evidence. Bare denials and absence of memory that the police are not in a position to prompt do not get them anywhere.

"Did you ever go to Dolphin Square?" Yes many times

(Assuming the police have no evidence of precisely where in the block of flats alleged offences took place, that line of questioning is going nowhere.)

"Why did you go to Dolphin Square?" Many reasons. I have been for dinner; I've been for meetings, I've been to collect people in my car; I viewed a number of flats when we looking to move.

Did you ever have sexual intercourse there? No or Yes (and then the interview will go off for a while on a complete red herring about some girlfriend from the 1960s)

Did you ever have homosexual intercourse there? No

Did you ever attend a sex party there? No

Did you rape and murder children there? No

Do you know Fred Bloggs? I don't know. The name means nothing to me now but I met thousands of people in my political career.

Fred Bloggs says he saw you rape and murder children at homosexual sex party in Dolphin Square? Well he is either mistaken or making it up.

Why might he make it up? I have no idea. Politicians make enemies. Home Secretaries make enemies. Newspapers pay money. It could be a hundred reasons.

Well thank you for your time Lord Brittan. Sorry to trouble you.

Did that interview help the investigation in the slightest? Was there any realistic possibility that he was going to answer any of those questions in a different way?

Police investigating a VIP *paedophile ring have pinpointed a luxury flat where they believe boys were held before being *sexually abused by prominent men – and in one case murdered.

The apartment is in upmarket Pimlico, central London, and is connected to a large cellar.

In a chilling development, detectives from Operation Midland believe the premises were used as a holding area for youngsters before they were driven a short distance to abuse parties.

http://rt.com/uk/240777-uk-sex-children-may/

Pedophilia in Britain ‘woven into the fabric of society’

There's a public enquiry currently underway. I'll wait until that is concluded.

You can't judge a man's guilt or innocence by what newspapers don't write.

A certain class of Englishman still keeps a stiff upper lip about personal matters. Lord Brittan was not of the Jeremy Kyle school of behaviour.