- Two politicians join 22 others named in allegations of abuse in 1980s
- Form part of powerful ring of Westminster paedophiles, it is claimed
- Scotland Yard is investigating allegations made by handful of 'victims'
- The men, all now adults, say they were routinely abused by politicians
- Cyril Smith and Sir Peter Hayman among those accused of assault
Another two former ministers have been accused of sexually abusing children in the 1980s as part of an alleged ring of Westminster paedophiles.
Their names were given to police investigating claims politicians routinely raped young boys and girls at a number of addresses in the capital 30 years ago.
MP John Mann, who handed a dossier of information to Scotland Yard, was approached by the two new politicians' alleged victim last week.
Another two former ministers have been named in allegations of sexual abuse of children by Westminster VIPs in the 1980s. Above, the Dolphin Square apartment complex where much of the abuse is alleged to have taken place
They join 22 others named by Mann to police, six of whom are still in Parliament, the Sunday Times reports.
'Someone has contacted me with some very precise allegations - not just the names but the basis of the allegations - and it is going straight to the police,' Mr Mann told the newspaper.
'I have no idea whether it is true or not. All I know is that it is a very precise allegation.'
The alleged victim is the fourth person to have contacted Mr Mann in the past week.
Labour MP John Mann made has handed a dossier of information to Scotland Yard
Last week Mr Mann sensationally claimed two whistle-blowers who threatened to expose the alleged ring of high-placed paedophiles were murdered to keep a lid on the scandal.
He also gave police the address of a flat where, the men say, they were regularly abused as children after being plucked from Lambeth care homes.
The property lay in Dolphin Square, a luxurious apartment complex in Pimlico frequented by Westminster VIPs which has been repeatedly referred to in allegations of abuse at the hands of ministers.
Mr Mann alerted police to allegations of child abuse at the prestigious block in 1989 when he was a Lambeth councillor, but nothing was done.
The two whistleblowers he claims may have been killed are said to have been ready to expose powerful figures preying on teenage boys from children’s care homes in Lambeth.
The information Mr Mann has given police concerns the suspicious deaths of a Lambeth Council caretaker in 1989 and a social worker in 1993 who allegedly threatened to expose a paedophile ring linked to a future minister in Tony Blair’s government.
Earlier, Metropolitan Police said it was investigating claims that a Tory MP strangled a 12-year-old boy.
A Home Office inquiry into the alleged abuse was stunted after Fiona Woolf, a former president of the Law Society, stepped down amid claims she may have a conflict of interest.
Theresa May is now said to be considering a statutory inquiry which will compel people to give evidence.
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