THOUGHT FOR T'DAY ON EDWARD HEATH

There are two very conflicting reports in the news today on Edward Heath.

First this from that brothel owner:

The former prostitute and convicted criminal who allegedly sparked the Edward Heath child abuse scandal has said that the former Prime Minister was “not a paedophile…just an old, sad, gay man”.

Myra Ling-Ling Forde, 67, the former Salisbury brothel owner who is alleged to have escaped prosecution in 1992 by stating she would expose the former Prime Minister as a sex offender, yesterday said she found him "company, and he was happy."

“You know, he’s not a paedophile, he’s not a paedophile. He never asked me for young children, and I never [supplied] anybody [with] young boys,” she told Channel 4 News. “I’d like to put it straight that he’s not a paedophile. He’s just an old, sad, gay man.”

The motives of Ms Forde, who was jailed in 1995 and 2009 for running a brothel in Salisbury, near the home of the former Prime Minister, remain unclear. Shortly after allegations against the former Prime Minister surfaced, Ms Forde released a statement through her solicitor that she had “no involvement with Ted Heath of any kind” – a position that appears to have changed.

[source : Ted Heath child abuse claims: Former Prime Minister was 'not a paedophile... just an old, sad, gay man' says brothel owner, The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ted-heath-child-abuse-claims-former-prime-minister-was-not-a-paedophile-just-an-old-sad-gay-man-says-brothel-owner-10449259.html, 11th August 2015]

But then there is this from one of his closest advisers:

Sir Edward Heath was “almost completely, if not completely asexual” and his reputation is being “unfairly tarnished” by child abuse allegations, according to one of the late former prime minister’s closest advisers.

Lord Armstrong of Ilminster said he “never detected a whiff of sexuality in relation to men, women or children” in the 35 years of knowing Heath, who led the country from 1970-74.

In a letter to the Times, Armstrong said even if Heath was a paedophile he would have been “too conscious of the implications for his reputation and career to take risks of that kind”.

[source : Edward Heath 'completely asexual', says former PM's adviser, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/11/edward-heath-asexual-says-former-adviser, 11th August 2015

So how can Armstrong, who worked with Heath for 35 years say Heath was asexual, but the Forde say he was a sad homosexual?

Who is lying?

Just one?

Or both?