As part of an inquiry into sex abuse allegations, British police are to spend a year reading through the private papers of the former, late prime minister Edward Heath. Civilian investigators, usually retired officers, will be recruited by Wiltshire Constabulary to examine the archive of the late Conservative PM who died in 2005. At least five police forces have received allegations of child sexual abuse against Heath. RT reports: Detectives will search through 4,500 boxes of uncatalogued material, which includes diaries and personal letters, all of which are held in the Sir Edward Heath archive at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The investigation comes in response to at least seven allegations of abuse brought against Heath, including one claim the former PM abused a boy on his yacht before throwing him overboard. The Times reports that police will question former political aides, housekeepers, cooks, household staff, musicians and even guests who visited him for lunch at his home in Salisbury, Wiltshire. The inquiry has been prompted by a retired officer’s claim last year that abuse allegations against Heath were covered up in the 1990s. A retired Wiltshire police officer, who reached a senior rank in the force, revealed that a [...]