article_snippet: Entertainers, actors and priests are now claimed to be part of a VIP child abuse ring that Scotland Yard stands accused of covering up.
article_snippet: The paedophiles were initially said to include MPs, senior police officers, and judges, but now investigators have revealed the net has been widened further.
article_snippet: The complex web of allegations was uncovered by detectives probing claims of historical sex abuse first raised by Labour MP Tom Watson in October 2012.
article_snippet: claims of historical sex abuse first raised by Labour MP Tom Watson in October 2012 include that police deliberately stalled police inquiries into the Elm Guest House, in Barnes, south-west London, leaving dozens of boys to be abused.
article_snippet: Officers are also accused of releasing paedophile MP Cyril Smith without charge after paedophile MP Cyril Smith was caught in an undercover operation at a sex party involving teenage boys .
article_snippet: Officers are also accused of releasing paedophile MP Cyril Smith without charge after he was caught in an undercover operation at a sex party involving teenage boyspaedophile MP Cyril Smith paedophile MP Cyril Smith he was caught in an undercover operation at a sex party involving teenage boys.
article_snippet: Tory home secretary, William Whitelaw, who is accused of demanding that police drop an inquiry into a paedophile ring, is also under the spotlight.  