Police investigate Prescott

Scotland Yard is looking into a complaint that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has broken the law by allegedly having sex with his secretary in his Whitehall office.

The formal complaint - in letter form - was sent to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair by Glaswegian Alistair Watson.

Mr Watson, a retired police officer, cited the case of a Greater Manchester police officer who was sentenced to 200 hours' community service after he had sex with a woman three times at her home while he was on duty.

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