A LEAKED report written by former deputy police chief Lenny Harper offers an account of the legal advice given to his team which challenges the version of events described by Attorney General William Bailhache.

The leaked report, published on Senator Stuart Syvret’s internet blog, was written on 24 June when Mr Harper, who then led the child abuse inquiry and has since retired, was angry at what he claimed was a change of mind by a lawyer acting on behalf of Mr Bailhache.

The report says that the police were in no doubt that a couple accused of child abuse were to have been charged.

Mr Bailhache, however, has said that there was a misunderstanding and that the couple – who, it was revealed yesterday, will face no charges – were the subject of conflicting evidence that provided insufficient grounds for the case to continue.

The Attorney General insists that if Mr Harper, pictured, said that he and his team obstructed the police, then he was ‘simply wrong’.

But as well as disputing the circumstances in which the couple were released, the report accuses the Attorney General’s legal team of taking ‘a frustratingly long time’ to process files submitted to them, and is deeply critical of the service provided by a UK adviser in the legal team.