'I felt violated. I was treated like a criminal': Prime Minister's condolence cards rifled through. Fingertip searches for shallow graves... in her own words, the outrageous treatment of Leon Brittan's widow - and all on the say-so of a lying paedophile
Diana Brittan had a busy day planned for Thursday, March 5, 2015. First she would answer some of the hundreds of condolence cards she had received following the death just six weeks earlier of her husband Leon, Lord Brittan of Spennithorne. Political heavyweights had sent heartfelt sympathy cards paying tribute to her husband's character and achievements – in the early 1980s he was the youngest home secretary since Churchill and became an eminent EU commissioner. The well-wishers included the then prime minister David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and William Hague, to name but a few. Lady Brittan was then due to have lunch with former Tory MPs Norman Fowler now the Lord and the late Lord Temple-Morris, before going to the cinema that evening with two girlfriends. So, a diary packed with things to ease the pain of a devastating bereavement. Speaking out: Lady Brittan is seeking justice over the treatment of her husband, the former Home Secretary She and her husb