‘Trial of the facts’ into allegations of sexual abuse by Lord Janner formally dropped following his death in December.

Greville Janner was declared unfit to stand a criminal trial last year due to his advanced dementia

Greville Janner was declared unfit to stand a criminal trial last year due to his advanced dementia (Rex )

A ‘trial of the facts’ into allegations of sexual abuse by Lord Janner has been formally dropped following the Labour peer’s death in December.

Although the Crown Prosecution Service had declared Greville Janner unfit to stand a criminal trial last year due to his advanced dementia, a formal examination of the evidence against him had been scheduled for April.

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