A man who encouraged child sexual abuse facilitators to make their victims ‘cry’ has been sentenced, to just 32 months in prison following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. The NCA launched an investigation into Christopher Sanders, 50, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, after receiving intelligence from international partners in July 2023 about a UK individual who was a prolific purchaser of live-streaming content. From August 2017 to February 2019 Sanders used online

A prolific sex offender who targeted children in the 1990s by masquerading as a caretaker has finally been brought to justice. David Pearce, now aged 70, from Cambridgeshire, will serve 18 years in prison, after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police presented indisputable forensic evidence. Pearce pleaded guilty to seven sex offences following the prosecution’s opening statement at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Wednesday, 6 May 2026. He was sentenced on Friday, 3 July, at

EIGHT grooming gang investigations that were shut down by police forces are being reopened after they were reviewed by the National Crime Agency's national Operation Beaconport. The NCA confirmed this today, one year since the publication of Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, but it has not identified which police forces are involved or if it is eight separate ones. It also said that new suspected grooming gangs have been ident

Detectives investigating a serious sexual assault in Hyde Park have released an e-fit of a man they want to speak to as part of their enquiries. On 31 August 2024 police received a report that a man in his 30s had been sexually assaulted around two months previously near Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park. The man reported being approached by another man, who demanded sex from him and then produced a knife. He reported that the suspect cut his abdomen when he refused and subsequen

POLICE have said there is no evidence to support the Epsom gang rape happening as reported. Full statement from Assistant Chief Constable for Local Policing Sarah Grahame: "Over the past week, there has been widespread speculation and commentary following a report of a rape in Epsom in the early hours of Saturday (11 April). We are aware of the strength of feeling this has created, and of the frustration caused by our limited public comment on the matter. During this time, we

THE Met Police's pledge to start 24/7 patrols of Leicester Square and Soho has been called into question after officers were unable to attend an alleged sexual assault on a woman for an hour and a half. The suspect was only arrested after private security officers from My Local Bobby (MLB), who had detained him and requested police attendance, marched him to a police station. The incident also raises questions about the Met's commitment to combatting violence and sex abuse ag

A man who subjected two young children to abuse over 15 years has been jailed following an investigation by Met detectives. Anthony Adewale Sobogun, 61 (04.03.65), of Thistlewood Crescent, Croydon was sentenced to 28 years' imprisonment at Inner London Crown Court today, Wednesday, 15 April. He had previously been found guilty of 17 non-recent sexual abuse offences against two children. The offending includes multiple incidents of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age

Humberside Police has closed a major investigation into child sex grooming gangs in Hull for the second time, bringing no charges. The first probe called Operation Marksman ran from 2019 to June 2021 when it closed with no charges even though 34 people had been arrested. Details of the first investigation were revealed by UK News and Investigations editor Jon Austin while he was Crime Editor of the Sunday Express. It was after a former social worker whistleblower alleged th

A JUDGE said two brothers who raped a woman after one of them was caught on camera forcing her into their property had no case to answer it has emerged. Marius Todoran, 40, (04.11.1985) (top right) and Vasile Todoran, 43 (18.06.82) (top left), both of Girton Avenue, Brent, were only jailed after the Court of Appeal overturned the judge's decision to stop their trial, paving the way for another one. The pair were sentenced today, Wednesday, 8 April 2026, at Kingston Crown Cour

The Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs for England and Wales has formally received its mandate with its terms of reference published today, March 31 2026. Once they are laid before the House of Commons on 13 April, the Inquiry will begin its investigation into the sexual abuse and exploitation of children by grooming gangs across England and Wales. The Inquiry is chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield CBE, supported by panellists Zoë Billingham CBE and Eleanor Kell