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		</div><p>At least four police forces are investigating sex abuse allegations linked to Sir Edward Heath, it has been revealed.</p>
<p>On a dramatic day the former prime minister was named in connection with inquiries carried out by detectives in London, Kent and Jersey.</p>
<p>On Monday Wiltshire Police appealed for potential victims and witnesses to come forward after the late politician became the most high-profile figure embroiled in historical child sex claims.</p>
<p>Reports subsequently emerged that Sir Edward is being looked at as part of Operation Midland, a Scotland Yard inquiry into claims a VIP paedophile ring operated in the 1970s and 1980s.</p>
<p>The Metropolitan Police has not confirmed the claims. A spokesman said: “We are not giving a running commentary on Operation Midland.”</p>
<p>The States of Jersey Police (SoJP) confirmed the former prime minister features in Operation Whistle, an inquiry in to alleged historical abuse on the island.</p>
<p>Operation Whistle was launched by police in Jersey in June as part of Operation Hydrant, a UK-wide co-ordination of sex abuse probes.</p>
<p>Later Kent Police said it had received a report today of a sexual assault in the east of the county in the 1960s.</p>
<p>A spokesman said: “The victim has named Sir Edward Heath in connection with the allegation. Detectives are making initial inquiries and will obtain a full account from the victim.”</p>
<p>Wiltshire Police said its officers and the NSPCC had received “a number of calls” following appeals for information.</p>
<p>The force said in a statement: “The investigation team will be reviewing the information and following up any lines of inquiry as a result.”</p>
<p>A spokeswoman said that they were unable to confirm how many people had made contact and the “validity” of the calls was not known at this stage.</p>
<p>They have received a mixture of “intelligence” and “third party” calls, she added.</p>
<p>Sir Edward’s name was dramatically linked to paedophile claims on Monday when the police watchdog announced an inquiry into allegations that a prosecution against an individual was shelved after a threat was made to “expose” him.</p>
<p>A woman who was in charge of a brothel had been due to stand trial, but said she would expose him, according to reports.</p>
<p>The IPCC is also looking into whether Wiltshire Police followed up a claim made against him in the 1990s.</p>
<p>Meanwhile a man claimed he was raped at the age of 12 by the former PM.</p>
<p>The alleged victim, now aged in his 60s, has claimed he reported being sexually assaulted by the Conservative MP in 1961 but was branded “a liar and a fantasist”.</p>
<p>Labour MP Tom Watson has claimed he passed information relating to two allegations of child abuse involving Sir Edward to police since 2012.</p>
<p>The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation said: “We welcome the investigation by Wiltshire Police, which we wholeheartedly believe will clear Sir Edward’s name and we will co-operate fully with the police in their inquiries.”</p>
<p>Former Conservative MP Brian Binley, who worked in Sir Edward’s office for a period of time, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I find it very difficult to believe from the Ted Heath that I knew.</p>
<p>“There are many unanswered questions here and I don’t think it would be right and fair to jump to conclusions about a man who served his country with dignity and with care, who was a considerable intellect, loved his music.</p>
<p>“We must be very careful. It’s easy to smear people not around.”</p>
<p>Sir Edward, who led the Conservative government between 1970 and 1974, never married and was famously reticent about his private life.</p>
<p>One biographer concluded that he may have been a latent or repressed homosexual while another thought he was “pretty well sexless”.</p>
<p>Away from politics he was noted for his enthusiasm for sailing and classical music. Sir Edward died at home in Salisbury aged 89 in July 2005.</p>
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