114 files missing in VIP child sex ring probe

London: A top lawyer is to investigate the UK government’s handling of a dossier alleging high-level paedophile activity, which was first passed to home secretary Leon Brittan by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983 – but subsequently lost.

Mark Sedwill, the Home Office permanent secretary, said the investigation would examine whether the findings of a review of the “Dickens dossier” conducted last year ‘remain sound’. He said “114 potentially relevant files” had been destroyed, missing or not found.