Watson humbled: At last, 副 労働 leader says sorry to Brittan 未亡人 for 乱用 中傷するs as police 長，指導者 激突するs 'baseless witch-追跡（する）' of 本気で ill peer

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Tom Watson was humiliated yesterday over his relentless 追跡 of Leon Brittan on sex 乱用 主張s.

Nine months after he repeated a （人命などを）奪う，主張する that the Tory peer was as ‘の近くに to evil as any human 存在 could get’, 労働’s 副 leader was 軍隊d to make a grovelling 陳謝 to his 未亡人.

He also 直面するd 損失ing 告訴，告発s from fellow MPs that he had been ‘部族の’ in his （選挙などの）運動をする on child 性の 乱用 and had created ‘犠牲者s twice over’.?

Humiliated: 労働's 副 leader Mr Watson was 運ぶ／漁獲高d before the ありふれたs 委員会 to '明らかにする a number of points' over his 追跡 of the former Tory peer later this afternoon

'Unlawful': In a 破滅的な rebuke to his superiors, 探偵，刑事 長，指導者 視察官 Paul Settle (権利, 前線) 示唆するd the 軍隊 行為／法令／行動するd 不法に by interviewing Lord Brittan under 警告を与える while he was 本気で ill?

His very public humbling （機の）カム after the Scotland Yard 探偵，刑事 who first 調査／捜査するd a 誤った 強姦 （人命などを）奪う，主張する against Lord Brittan 明らかにする／漏らすd he 恐れるd the 調査（する） would turn into a ‘baseless witch-追跡（する）’.

In a 破滅的な rebuke to his superiors, 探偵，刑事 長，指導者 視察官 Paul Settle 示唆する d the 軍隊 行為／法令／行動するd 不法に by interviewing Lord Brittan under 警告を与える while he was 本気で ill.

He was also 高度に 批判的な of Mr Watson, 告発する／非難するing him of 土台を崩すing officers and b etraying him by complaining about the 調査（する） in a letter to the Director of Public 起訴s.

Two of Scotland Yard’s most 上級の officers sat uncomfortably behind Mr Settle as he savaged the 軍隊’s 扱うing of the Brittan 強姦 調査 in 証言 to the ありふれたs home 事件／事情／状勢s 委員会.

Before yesterday’s 審理，公聴会, Met 長，指導者s had tried to stop the 探偵，刑事 giving 証拠.

The DPP, Alison Saunders, 追加するd to the Met’s 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の day of shame by telling MPs there had never been ‘a 現実主義の prospect of 有罪の判決’ in the drawn-out 調査 into Lord Brittan.

Mr Watson said that he was 心から sorry to Lady Brittan for having repeated the 主張 from one of the former home 長官’s supposed 犠牲者s that he was ‘の近くに to evil’.

But he used the occasion to point out that the phrase did not come from Jane, the woman whose （人命などを）奪う，主張する of 強姦 has been 拒絶するd by police.

And he 直面するd 批評 from 委員会 members for ‘micromanaging’ the police 調査, for 追求するing a 政治上 動機づけるd （選挙などの）運動をする and for 開始 himself up to the 主張 that he had coached 攻撃を受けやすい 証言，証人／目撃するs.

Asked about the newspaper article he wrote within days of Lord Brittan’s death, 労働’s 副 leader told MPs: ‘I do 悔いる using that emotive language.?

Couple: Lord Brittan with his wife?Diana in London in 2004.?Mr Watson 否定するd that he was trying to do the 職業 of the police, にもかかわらず having no training in how to take 証拠 from 攻撃を受けやすい 証言，証人／目撃するs

R evelation: Mr Settle said he had decided that the 事例／患者 against the former home 長官 'should not proceed' as 早期に as September 2013

'I shouldn’t have done, and I am 心から sorry for repeating it. It was unnecessary. I am 心から sorry for the 傷つける 原因（となる）d for repeating that phrase.?

'I felt at the time that some people’s 発言する／表明するs were not 存在 heard, but I used the wrong language and I’m sorry about that.?

'I’m very sorry for the 苦しめる 原因（となる）d and I’m very sorry for the wider family, they’re 明確に very angry. They 明確に loved Leon Brittan.’

Mr Watson 否定するd that he was trying to do the 職業 of the police, にもかかわらず having no training in how to take 証拠 from 攻撃を受けやすい 証言，証人／目撃するs.?

Keith Vaz, the 労働 chairman of the home 事件／事情／状勢s 委員会, said: ‘You are not Sherlock Holmes, are you?’

調査（する）: Scotland Yard 長，指導者 Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe (left) is under 圧力 for his 追跡 of Leon Brittan

Tory MP Victoria Atkins said: ‘The 論理（学）の 結論 Mr Watson is that you are a Member of 議会, not a police officer.?

'Police officers who を取り引きする these 事例／患者s are very hig hly specialised in their training 正確に to 達成する best 証拠.’?

Asked whether he was worried his 行為／行う could 原因（となる） 未来 事例／患者s to 落ちる apart, Mr Watson replied: ‘All I can say is that I was trying to do my very best on Jane’s に代わって. You can only do your best.’

James Berry, another Tory MP on the 委員会, （刑事）被告 Mr Watson of 存在 同志／支持者 by 公然と going after 保守的な 政治家，政治屋s.?

Mr Watson said that was ‘not the 事例／患者 at all’, 説 he had also commented on the 事例／患者s of 労働 peer Lord Janner and the child 乱用 スキャンダル in 労働-run Rotherham.

Nusrat Ghani, another 保守的な MP, said: ‘I’m worried about these 犠牲者s or 申し立てられた／疑わしい 犠牲者s becoming 犠牲者s twice over when you go public.’

Sir Samuel Brittan, Lord Brittan’s brother, was not impressed with Mr Watson’s 陳謝, telling ITV News last night: ‘It’s a halfway 陳謝, I suppose.’

Lord Brittan died in January without 存在 told he would not 直面する 活動／戦闘 over a （人命などを）奪う，主張する, made to police in November 2012, that he 強姦d 19-year-old Jane in 1967.

Police 結論するd that the 事例／患者 should not be 追求するd in September 2013 but the 調査 was 再開するd and Lord Brittan was quizzed in May last year while 苦しむing from 終点 癌.

Mr Watson 直面するd 激しい scrutiny after it 現れるd that the interview was carried out すぐに after he wrote to Mrs Saunders asking for the 事例／患者 to be reviewed.