UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
The independent child sex abuse inquiry has denied claims it has plans to drop the investigation into Lord Janner.
The Sunday Telegraph suggested the inquiry was to abandon examining allegations the former Labour MP abused victims between the 1950s and 1980s.
More than 30 complainants are due to give evidence against Lord Janner, who died in December.
The inquiry has faced various setbacks including the departure of two senior lawyers and three chairwomen.
The newspaper claimed Lord Janner’s son, Daniel Janner, a QC, had been told by a source the investigation into allegations his father was a paedophile would be discontinued.
It quoted Mr Janner as saying: “A wholly reliable source has informed me the strand into my father is to be dropped”.
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