Police probe claims against UK peer

Scotland Yard revealed in a statement that Lib Dem party officials have asked the police to launch an investigation into claims that Lord Rennard had exploited his former position as chief executive to proposition women and to touch them inappropriately.

“The Metropolitan Police Special Investigations Command has been approached by officials in the Liberal Democrat Party and is working with them to ascertain whether or not criminal activity has taken place,” a spokesman said.

The party said on Monday night that it would “engage fully” with the police on the issue.

“We can confirm that the party has had an invitation to attend a ‘stakeholder meeting’ at Scotland Yard to discuss the involvement of the police in any investigation into Chris Rennard,” a Lib Dem spokesman said. “The party will fully engage with the police on this issue and continue to encourage anyone with allegations of a criminal nature to contact the police.”

Lord Rennard has strongly denied the allegations made against him by a series of Lib Dem women activists.
He was the Lib Dems’ key election strategist and adviser to a succession of party leaders.

Lib Dem party chief and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is under intense pressure to explain what exactly he had known about the claims and what he had done about them.

The Lib Dems initially insisted Clegg had known nothing about them until a Channel 4 News report broke the story on Thursday. On Sunday, however, the Deputy Prime Minister returned from holiday in Spain to concede that his office had heard “indirect and non-specific concerns” as far back as 2008.

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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/26/290869/rennard/

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