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UK News & Investigations
How Rochdale grooming gang was brought to justice after police and CPS finally took it seriously - but one offender still remains at large
SIX members of a gang of Pakistani heritage child sex groomers were finally brought to justice for offences committed (in some cases)...
By JON AUSTIN
Oct 2, 2025


Much of £12 billion of criminal cash generated in UK each year 'laundered through high street shops' says NCA
AROUND £12 billion of criminal cash is being generated in the UK every year, the National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates. Much of it is...
By JON AUSTIN
Sep 30, 2025


EXCLUSIVE: Fears social workers have 'dropped ball' on child grooming gangs - victims identified hits record low as reported crimes rockets
Social workers are identifying and reporting fewer victims of grooming gangs despite police recording record numbers of child sex abuse...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 21, 2025


Just day after Starmer's U-turn on grooming gangs Home Office announces NCA national probe - why didn't they launch this years ago?
JUST a day after the Labour Government's major U-turn on launching a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, it has today...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 15, 2025


Rotherham child sex groomers who plied vulnerable girls from care homes with booze to rape them receive significant jail terms
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...
By JON AUSTIN
Mar 5, 2025


Rotherham grooming gang jailed for raping vulnerable girls from care homes over ten years ago after probe re-opened
Three men who organised parties at which they got children drunk and then abused them have been convicted of a series of sexual offences,...
By JON AUSTIN
Mar 3, 2025


Romanian woman convicted of controlling prostitution is arrested in the UK
A ROMANIAN woman has been arrested in the UK in connection with allegations of controlling prostitution. Ana Maria Varga, 25, (above) of...
By JON AUSTIN
May 29, 2024


Whistleblower Maggie Oliver's response to today's findings of independent review into failings to investigate child sex abuse in Rochdale
TODAY the findings of a six-year independent review into the investigation, prosecution and prevention of child sexual abuse in Rochdale...
By JON AUSTIN
Jan 15, 2024


'LOVERBOY' Romanian women lured to UK as men's 'girlfriends' only to be forced into sexual slavery
MET Police officers in partnership with Europol, Eurojust, and Romanian Police have rescued six victims of modern slavery. In the early...
By JON AUSTIN
Aug 4, 2023


Social worker who blew whistle on police 'child sex grooming inaction' arrested after news report
ESSEX News and Investigations editor Jon Austin looks at how a child sex grooming investigation in Hull was re-opened and charges could...
By JON AUSTIN
Aug 1, 2023









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