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

Police investigating a report of rape which occurred near a hospital in the early hours of the morning have charged a homeless man....

The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised the Metropolitan Police Service to charge DJ Tim Westwood with 15 sex offences against seven...

A man who incited and recorded thousands of children engaging in sexual activity online from his Croydon home has been jailed following a...

AN EFL Assistant Referee has been jailed for 14 years for grooming and sexually abusing three underage girls. Gareth Viccars, 47...

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

CELEBRITY peer Lord Brocket will not stand trial for allegedly raping a woman for more than two years. Lord Charles Brocket, 73, a former contestant on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, appeared at Isleworh Crown Court today, September 30 2025, for a plea hearing after being charged with two counts of rape last month<August>. He is charged with two counts of rape against the same woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in London on August 10 this year. A further ch