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Essex News & Investigations

Rotherham child sex groomers who plied vulnerable girls from care homes with booze to rape them receive significant jail terms
Two men who got children drunk and then abused them at parties have been jailed for 38 and a half years in total, following a National...
By JON AUSTIN
Mar 5
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Rotherham grooming gang jailed for raping vulnerable girls from care homes over ten years ago after probe re-opened
Three men who organised parties at which they got children drunk and then abused them have been convicted of a series of sexual offences,...
By JON AUSTIN
Mar 3
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Romanian woman convicted of controlling prostitution is arrested in the UK
A ROMANIAN woman has been arrested in the UK in connection with allegations of controlling prostitution. Ana Maria Varga, 25, (above) of...
By JON AUSTIN
May 29, 2024
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Whistleblower Maggie Oliver's response to today's findings of independent review into failings to investigate child sex abuse in Rochdale
TODAY the findings of a six-year independent review into the investigation, prosecution and prevention of child sexual abuse in Rochdale...
By JON AUSTIN
Jan 15, 2024
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'LOVERBOY' Romanian women lured to UK as men's 'girlfriends' only to be forced into sexual slavery
MET Police officers in partnership with Europol, Eurojust, and Romanian Police have rescued six victims of modern slavery. In the early...
By JON AUSTIN
Aug 4, 2023
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Social worker who blew whistle on police 'child sex grooming inaction' arrested after news report
ESSEX News and Investigations editor Jon Austin looks at how a child sex grooming investigation in Hull was re-opened and charges could...
By JON AUSTIN
Aug 1, 2023
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EXCLUSIVE: 'New alleged victims come forward' in re-opened probe into Humberside child sex grooming
AT least two new alleged victims are said to have come forward as part of a a major child sex grooming investigation that was re-opened...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 6, 2023
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People smuggling crime boss jailed for 10-and-a-half-years
The head of an organised crime group that smuggled hundreds of people both into and out of the UK has been jailed for 10-and-a-half...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 26, 2023
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Man accused of arranging dangerous boat crossings from Libya to Italy from UK appears in court
A MAN has appeared in court charged with people smuggling offences as part of an international investigation into an organised crime...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 24, 2023
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ROTHERHAM GROOMING PROBE: Three men charged with historic sex offences in children's home
THREE men have appeared in court charged with a series of offences linked to Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency (NCA’s)...
By JON AUSTIN
Jan 9, 2023
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