Myra Ling-Ling Forde ran a brothel close to the late Sir Edward Heath’s residence in Salisbury.
SAN FRANCISCO — A Filipino prostitute, who ran a brothel close to the late Prime Minister’s former home in Salisbury, U.K., has emerged as a central figure in the police probe into the late Prime Minister Edward Heath’s alleged sexual abuse of children.
Myra Ling-Ling Forde, 67, twice jailed for prostitution, operated as a madam out of home in the Wiltshire town where Heath lived after leaving office.
In the early 1990s she allegedly had charges against her dropped after threatening to expose Heath as a pedophile, according to a report by the Telegraph.
Heath headed the Conservative government between 1970 and 1974 and never married. He died in 2005 at 89.
He is now among the targets of Scotland Yard’s “Operation Midland,” an investigation into an alleged VIP pedophile ring that operated in the 1970s and 1980s.
The late Conservative U.K. Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath.
Allegations against Heath, including claims that he raped a 12-year-old boy in London in the 1960s, are now being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.
A retired senior detective last year alleged that police quietly dropped a prosecution of Forde in order to protect the reputation of the former Tory leader. An Independent Police Complaints (IPCC) is now investigating the allegation involving Forde. Wiltshire Police have also appealed to possible victims of Heath to come forward.
Despite her alleged threats against Heath to avoid prosecution in the early 1990s, Forde was successfully convicted in 1995 of running a brothel full of underage girls, often runaways or wards picked up from the care system.
Forde became a prostitute herself in the early 1990s after falling behind on her mortgage but she denied recruiting children. After getting out of prison, she returned to the trade and was again arrested in 2009 on suspicion of running a brothel.
She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay back £25,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Forde’s sister, Mia Pablico, said she did not know where she was now living, but knew what Forde did in Salisbury and said her sister “knew a lot of politicians and celebrities because of it.”
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