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| Child abuse inquiry: Police investigate three alleged murders | Child abuse inquiry: Police investigate three alleged murders |
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| Detectives are investigating three alleged murders as part of an inquiry into historical child abuse, the Met Police has said. | |
| Officers made a public appeal for information relating to Dolphin Square estate in Pimlico, south-west London. | |
| Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse said no confirmed identities or bodies of victims had been found. | Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse said no confirmed identities or bodies of victims had been found. |
| Allegations of a paedophile ring involving prominent figures in the 1970s and 1980s are being investigated. | |
| Detectives said they were also examining whether children were abused at locations including "military establishments". | |
| The appeal has been made as part of Operation Midland, which stems from allegations made by a man known as "Nick", who says he was abused by a paedophile ring including high-profile people. | |
| He has told police he was taken by car to "parties" where he was abused, including at least one flat in the Dolphin Square estate. | |
| Asked about the claims, Det Supt Kenny McDonald - who is overseeing Operation Midland - said officers who had spoken to him thought his account was "credible and true". | |
| Det Supt MacDonald appealed for other boys who might have been abused to come forward. | |
| "We are working hard to try to establish the number of boys involved. I would like appeal to those boys to trust me I will support you and do all in my power to bring the abusers to justice," he said. |