The widow of Lord Brittan, whose husband was falsely accused of being part of a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster, said her trust in the Met and the police watchdog has been 'severely undermined'.
An investigation into how former Met deputy assistant commissioner Steve Rodhouse handled the claims has been dropped, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said last week.
The probe was brought to an end by the watchdog after a 'large volume of relevant material was recently disclosed to the IOPC by the Metropolitan Police'.
Mr Rodhouse was due to face a disciplinary hearing for potentially breaching police professional standards of behaviour for honesty and integrity and discreditable conduct.
The allegations centred around comments made to the media in March 2016 concerning his beliefs about the honesty of two witnesses to Operation Midland - a Met investigation which he led into allegations of non-recent sexual abuse.
