Accused in child porn inquiry to sue police

POLICE who conducted the UK's biggest ever child-porn investigation are facing legal action from former suspects who say their lives have been ruined.

About 30 people have put their names to a class action set to be launched against detectives behind Operation Ore.

They claim their lives have been devastated by an investigation which has left hundreds of innocent people tarred by the same brush as the guilty. And they say they have secured evidence which shows that the basis for the investigation was false.

Brian Rothery, who is organising the class action, said there had been a huge human cost to the investigation, with at least 35 people in the UK having committed suicide.

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