Police send Lord Janner file to Crown Prosecution Service

“Support for victims or anyone else affected by child abuse is available 24 hours a day from the NSPCC.”

A property owned by Lord Janner was searched last December as part of an “ongoing criminal inquiry”.

Officers spent two days at the apartment in north-west London. Lord Janner was not arrested or interviewed and his lawyers said the 85-year-old was helping police with the investigation.

Greville Janner QC, Lord Janner of Braunstone, was Labour MP for Leicester West for 27 years before stepping down in 1997. The father-of-three is founding patron of the Holocaust Education Trust.

He has held a number of leading positions on groups serving world Jewry and is a former president of the Board of Deputies.