Independent Police Complaints Commission

Allegations linking former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath to child sex abuse threatened fresh disgrace for Britain's political establishment today as claims of high-level historic paedophilia pile up.

A former prime minister was drawn into the complex web of historic child sex abuse allegations in Britain on Monday, when the police watchdog announced an investigation involving 1970s leader Edward Heath.

Allegations linking former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath to child sex abuse threatened fresh disgrace for Britain's political establishment today as claims of high-level historic paedophilia pile up.

A former prime minister was drawn into the complex web of historic child sex abuse allegations in Britain on Monday, when the police watchdog announced an investigation involving 1970s leader Edward Heath.