UK News & Investigations

A LABOUR peer has been announced as the chair of the national inquiry into grooming gangs . Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield (above) was announced as the lead of the inquiry announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in June this year following a damning report by Baroness Louise Casey who completed a rapid audit looking at the scale of grooming gangs across the country. Announcing the appointment in the House of Commons yesterday Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood

A MAN who is suspected of raping a child in France has been arrested in Liverpool by the National Crime Agency. Sri Lankan national Sujanth Ketheeswararasa, 30, was detained by specialist officers from the agency's National Extradition Unit in Liverpool city centre, on Wednesday, 19 November 2025. Ketheeswararasa is wanted by the French authorities for the alleged rape of a young girl. He appeared at court in London on Thursday for extradition proceedings to begin and was rem

A BRITISH man who was a key figure in an international online child abuse platform that exploited at least 25 underage UK girls, from the home he shared with his mother has been jailed for seven and a half years. Bradley Talbot, 29, from Portsmouth, was a 'moderator' on a twisted Telegram group that incited girls aged 12 to 17 and groomed online into sex acts that were filmed and livestreamed to about 6,000 members across the globe. The group had 'poster girls' and degraded i

THE most senior civil servant in the Home Office was unable to confirm what the budget will be for the National Grooming Gangs Inquiry, or how many people will work on it, and could not commit to there being any meaningful update before Christmas. Dame Antonia Romeo (above), the Permanent Secretary for the Home Office, received a grilling from MPs on the Home Affairs  Select Committee, about when the inquiry will be up and running. Robbie Moore, (below) Tory MP for Keighly an

A MAN who raped a girl in Rotherham around 25 years ago when he was 14 has been jailed today, November 11 2025 at Sheffield Crown Court. Sageer Hussain, 40, who is already serving a 19-year-jail sentence for raping a girl, was sentenced to a further three years in prison for raping a second girl, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Hussain, a British national of Pakistani heritage, and the girl were both aged about 14 at the time. The girl used to s

BLACK cab serial rapist John Worboys could be considered for release again by the end of the year despite being subject to a new police investigation into an alleged sex attack in the 1990s. A minimum six year jail term he received for sex attacks on four of his victims is due to end next month<December>and the Parole Board confirmed that an initial assessment into whether Worboys can have a fresh parole hearing to assess if he can be released is underway. But, it comes as La

A MET Police officer who shared messages about sexually abusing children has dodged a jail term. PC Duncan Bouette, attached to the North East Command Unit was arrested by the Met’s Central Specialist Crime Unit on Tuesday, 7 October 2025. On Wednesday, 8 October, he was charged with two counts under the Obscene Publications Act. PC Bouette appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 9 October where he pleaded guilty to both charges. The court heard how PC Bouette

PRISON staff did not tell police about a foreign convicted sex offender being mistakenly released until six days later it has been confirmed. Another urgent manhunt is underway after the accidental release of 24-year-old Brahim Kaddour Cherif (above) who is an Algerian national. Details of the mishap at HMP Wandsworth in south London have only just been released despite it happening on 29 October, only five days after the release of migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu from HMP

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