Evening Standard/London

Scotland Yard is investigating allegations of a murder associated with claims of a VIP paedophile abuse ring.
Detectives investigating claims of historic child sex abuse say they have received reports about a “possible homicide”.
In an extraordinary statement the Met refused to give further details of the inquiry or the victim of the alleged murder.
The chilling disclosure comes after months of investigations into claims that an establishment cover-up was used to conceal the abuse of children.
The homicide claim has emerged during the 22 month investigation into claims that VIPS including politicians preyed on vulnerable children at places like the notorious Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London.
The inquiry codenamed Operation Fairbank was launched in January 2013 following allegations made to police by the Labour MP Tom Watson.
The MP raised concerns in the House of Commons about a establishment cover-up of a VIP paedophile ring operating at the guest house.
It is claimed boys from a local care home were taken to the guest house to be abused by VIPs, including an unidentified senior Tory politician.
The guest house closed in 1982 after a police raid during which an under-age boy was removed from the property.
In a statement the Met said : “Over the past month, detectives working on Operation Fairbank within the Met’s Specialist Crime and Operations have been made aware of allegations concerning serious non-recent sexual abuse, said to have occurred over 30 years ago.
“Our inquiries into this, over subsequent weeks, have revealed further information regarding possible homicide. “
Police added that details of the murder allegation had not been passed to police before.   In 1990 German Carole Kasir, who ran the guest house at the time of the allegations, was found dead in her flat at the age of 47.
The coroner’s inquest concluded that, a diabetic, she had suffered an insulin overdose and had committed suicide.
However, there were claims that she had been murdered to stop her talking about what she knew. The Yard said : “At this early stage in this inquiry, with much work still to do, it is not appropriate to issue appeals or reveal more information.
“Detectives from the child abuse investigation command are working closely with colleagues from the Homicide and major crime command concerning this information, which is being looked at under the name of Operation Midland.”
The Met statement comes just days after home secretary Theresa May yesterday admitted that the home office could have covered up paedophile allegations in the Eighties.
She was commenting on the findings of Peter Wanless, the head of the NSPCC, who carried out an inquiry into how the home office dealt with information handed over by the late Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens, as well as other allegations in 114 missing, lost or destroyed files.
Dickens wrote to Leon Brittan, then the home secretary and now Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, in 1983 to say he would expose eight public figures whom he suspected of child abuse, unless action was taken.