UK: Police chief to meet widow and apologise over false rape claim

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'The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, is to meet Lord Brittan’s widow later this month to apologise for his force’s handling of a false rape allegation [see footnote].

Hogan-Howe will visit Diana Brittan within weeks to discuss Scotland Yard’s failure to confirm the former home secretary’s innocence over the rape claim before his death last year.

An informed source confirmed on Thursday that the meeting would go ahead. The Met had concluded there was no charge to answer over a 45-year-old rape allegation four months before Brittan’s death in January 2015 but failed to tell him. Lady Brittan was only informed in October.'