10 h. ago Grooming gangs victim who was first to quit inquiry panel threatens to sue Jess Phillips for 'libel'

Fiona Goddard (pictured) issued the warning in a letter her solicitors wrote to the parliamentary under-secretary for safeguarding and violence against women and girls on Friday.

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10 h. ago Met Police launches massive new grooming gangs inquiry with 9,000 cases probed again after criticism of Sadiq Khan and UK's biggest force

The Mayor of London has repeatedly denied that his city was blighted by the kinds of child abuse seen in towns such as Rochdale and Rotherham.

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11 h. ago Met chief Sir Mark Rowley goes to battle with the BBC over Panorama exposé of shamed police station

This month, the broadcaster released Panorama: Undercover in the Police which exposed racist and discriminatory comments and actions by officers at Charing Cross police station.

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13 h. ago Grooming gang survivor threatens to sue minister in row over inquiry’s focus

Solicitors for Fiona Goddard wrote to minister Jess Phillips on Friday demanding an apology.

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13 h. ago Met Police cop caught 'revelling in use of force' in secret Panorama video sacked

Footage showed Pc Jason Sinclair-Birt claiming to have "whacked the s*** of the back of [the] legs" of a detainee - the officer later claimed to have embellished his account

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13 h. ago Met Police set to reopen 9,000 cases in major London grooming gangs probe

Suspected grooming gangs cases exposed by Standard investigation to be reexamined as part of huge Met Police review

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14 h. ago Fourth Met officer at scandal police station sacked after being filmed boasting about how he 'whacked the s*** out' of a suspect

The undercover footage shows PC Jason Sinclair-Birt tell a colleague he 'whacked the s**t out of the back of his legs' while discussing the use of force on a detainee.

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16 h. ago Met Police reviews 9,000 cases in grooming gangs probe after Sadiq Khan denials

Met Police reviews 9,000 cases in grooming gangs probe after Sadiq Khan denials  Daily Express

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17 h. ago Met Police impose strict conditions on UKIP demonstration and counter

Scotland Yard announced there would be an ‘increased visible police presence’ in London this weekend

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17 h. ago Met Police officer filmed ‘revelling in use of force’ on detainee is sacked

Pc Jason Sinclair-Birt’s comments were captured in undercover footage.

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20 h. ago Metropolitan Police set to use drones in bid to chase down fleeing suspects

The Met Police could start to use drones, launched from the top of buildings, to catch suspect by getting to a crime scene in less than two minutes

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23 h. ago Drill rapper jailed for murdering man whose brother was killed years later

Lekan Akinsoji and accomplice Sundjata Keita were found guilty of murder eight years after 21-year-old Ahmed Deen-Jah was killed.

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23 h. ago Police response to grooming gangs faces ‘significant challenges’, watchdog says

Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley said force had a ‘steady flow’ of ongoing investigations

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24 h. ago Could Prince Andrew ever be prosecuted over his links to Jeffrey Epstein?

The Metropolitan Police is ‘actively looking’ into claims the royal tried to use his bodyguard to smear his accuser Virginia Giuffre - as her family urged the force to reopen a probe into her alleged abuse

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24 h. ago Oldham grooming gangs survivor backs Jess Phillips after calls for minister to quit

The grooming gangs inquiry has been thrown into disarray

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25 h. ago Labour minister says they won't be 'rushed' into launching shambolic grooming gangs inquiry after it emerges finding someone to run it could take MONTHS

Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said finding the right chairperson for the investigation is a 'crucial appointment to get right' after leading candidates backed out.

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27 h. ago Grooming gang survivors risk becoming pawns in a political game that is no place for vulnerable people | Gaby Hinsliff

The chaos surrounding the inquiry stands as a warning: this is what happens when collapsing trust in public institutions, combined with point scoring, leads to paralysisIn the early hours of the morning, the cars would pull up outside the Bradford children’s home where Fiona Goddard lived as a teenager.Staff were worried about the men coming to collect her – records show she was felt to be “at high level of risk from unknown males” – but the policy was not to go to the police unless a child’s behaviour became concerning or she was seen being actively “dragged into a car”.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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29 h. ago London’s violent crime hotspots: Interactive map reveals tide of knife attacks and other assaults across capital

Capital accounts for almost a third of knife offences in England and Wales, research shows

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29 h. ago London’s violent crime hotspots: Interactive map reveals tide of assaults across the capital

Capital accounts for almost a third of knife offences in England and Wales, research shows

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33 h. ago Former Lord Speaker Baroness D'Souza is suspended from House after lobbying Met Police chief about her 'unfair' speeding fines

A House of Lords Conduct Committee report said Lady D'Souza chose to highlight how losing her license would impede her parliamentary work which showed the seriousness of her misjudgment.

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