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

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

A CONVICTED sex offender, wanted in Moldova to serve a sentence for a sex attack on a woman, has been arrested in the UK. Maxim Vitalii Cosnicean, 36, of Wanstead Lane, Ilford, east London, was arrested on an international arrest warrant and brought before Westminster Magistrates' Court on October 10 2025. The court heard he has a sentence to serve there in prison after he sexually assaulted a woman on July 12 2014. He was refused bail after the court heard he has a lengthy s

Witnesses and information are sought by detectives investigating a rape in Tunbridge Wells. It is reported a teenager was sexually assaulted by an unknown man on Tunbridge Wells Common, close to Mount Ephraim and the junction for Molyneux Park Road. The incident happened between 8pm and 9pm on Saturday 18 October 2025. The man approached the girl as she was walking home along Victoria Road. They walked together towards Mount Ephraim, at which point it is alleged the man took

A MAN has been accused of a sex attack on a woman on a cruise ship in international waters. Arvie Oporto, 36, a Filipino national, was arrested on an international arrest warrant from Bermuda in the Hampshire area and brought before Westminster Magistrates' extradition court on October 10 2025. The warrant alleges that he sexually assaulted a woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, aboard a Bermuda ship, the Queen Anne (above), on August 13 this year. It is understood t

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