A former MP arrested on suspicion of a child sex offence has had his police bail extended for two months.
Ivor Caplin was arrested by Hove Station in January after being filmed by paedophile hunters as part of a sting they set up.
After he was kept in for questioning overnight, he was released the following day on police bail until yesterday while the investigation continued.
Sussex Police said the bail has now been extended to 10 June. Another man arrested in connection with the same investigation has been released without charge.
A police spokeswoman said “A 66-year-old man arrested on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child on 11 January has had his bail extended to 10 June pending further enquiries.
“A 40-year-old man who was also arrested on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child on 11 January has now been released without further action.”
Kicked into the long grass. They don’t want this coming out around the local elections.
Vote reform
Trumpys mate, never!
Wow AI Wills. This individual isn’t a party. Are you that naive about human nature? Grow up. And by the way, lets hear Reform UK’s sokutions to the genuine grieveances people have with the status quo in the UK. Labour are lame. You need to try harder!
This is part of a pattern of behaviour over decades, the Labour Party of very much involved at least by enabling him. This is completely a party political issue and should be treated as such and low party needs to be held accountable for this.
This is potentially good news and means the Police could be taking it seriously. Let’s hope so.
I suppose in one way it’s good that the “paedophile hunters” pass this information on to the police. However, what doesn’t sit well with me, is how they out the alleged paedophiles on social media, press. Some may argue that people have a right to protect their children, that may be the case, but this way doesn’t seem right to me. It seems like their are “outings, name and shame”, on social media. Saddens me, what society has become.
Perhaps put on social media only if the person in question is convicted.
This story has been wiped from most western media sources if you google it
I wonder why….