MORE than 230 previously closed grooming gang investigations are being reviewed by the "national police operation" led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) it can be revealed. Dubbed Operation Beaconport, the probe will be one of the biggest ever policing operations the country has ever seen, but the NCA was today unable to confirm its budget. It will review cases where police forces (across England and Wales) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) made the decision to take no

THE Met Police is reviewing 9,000 child sex abuse cases, including many involving alleged grooming gangs, despite London Mayor Sadiq Khan previously suggesting there wasn't a problem in the capital. The force revealed it was looking back at the cases dating back to about 2010 as part of a nationwide reinvestigation of grooming gang cases recommended by Baroness Casey following her report on the scandal published in June. A Met spokesman said: "We are currently undertaking a r

A SECOND candidate to chair the Government's national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs has pulled out of the running blaming "political point scoring." Former senior police officer Jim Gamble, who later led the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) police command, withdrew after senior social worker Annie Hudson pulled out of the race to chair the inquiry, citing "media pressure" on Tuesday and four survivors resigned from a liaison panel. There had been criti

SIX members of a gang of Pakistani heritage child sex groomers were finally brought to justice for offences committed (in some cases)...

AROUND £12 billion of criminal cash is being generated in the UK every year, the National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates. Much of it is...

Social workers are identifying and reporting fewer victims of grooming gangs despite police recording record numbers of child sex abuse...

JUST a day after the Labour Government's major U-turn on launching a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, it has today...

Two men who got children drunk and then abused them at parties have been jailed for 38 and a half years in total, following a National...

Three men who organised parties at which they got children drunk and then abused them have been convicted of a series of sexual offences,...

A ROMANIAN woman has been arrested in the UK in connection with allegations of controlling prostitution. Ana Maria Varga, 25, (above) of...