REVIEW INTO BOTCHED VIP SEX ABUSE INVESTIGATION
A review of Scotland Yard's botched VIP sex abuse probe conducted by former High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques said: "The principal cause of the many failures in this investigation was poor judgment and a failure to accurately evaluate known facts and to react to them.
"A major contributing factor was the culture that 'victims' must be believed."
The report said the "most significant error" in the investigation into allegations made by Carl Beech was "the decision to apply for search warrants coupled with formulating inaccurate statements" which were put before a district judge.
"But for that decision, this investigation may well have been completed without the dreadful adverse consequences I have described," the report said.
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