Exclusive: Did the Met “cover up” a paedophile ring?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
An exclusive investigation by Andy Hughes, co-host of The Crime Agents and LBC crime correspondent, raises disturbing questions about whether a London police officer was operating a grooming gang in the capital. He speaks to Lewis about his report, the accusations of a cover up, and the Met police response.
Later, Keir Starmer has been leading efforts today to get Europe to reform the ECHR. He's claimed that the best way to fight "the forces of hate and division" is to show that mainstream politics can fix the problem. Is he right? Jake Richards, the justice minister, came in to the News Agents studio to discuss what's at stake.
You can listen to the special investigation from The Crime Agents here:
https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42L4DG/
Andy's video report is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9f_qHJeCpU
The News Agents is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Before we get going on today's episode, we wanted to give you a warning that there are graphic descriptions of sexual abuse, indeed child sexual abuse from the very start. |
| 0:22.6 | Hi, my name's Andy Hughes. I'm a reporter for LBC. It's okay if we chat about some allegations. |
| 0:28.6 | Can you get any ID? |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah, I do, yeah. Here's a letter which details the allegations. The allegations relate to your time at the Met Police. |
| 0:40.0 | And the allegations are that you sexually abuse young girls when you were at the Met Police. |
| 0:45.1 | Do you have any comments to that? |
| 0:47.3 | Can you take the... |
| 0:48.4 | That was the crime agents, Andy Hughes, doorstepping, a former metropolitan police officer about a story that Andy has been working on for months. |
| 0:58.7 | This officer has been accused of being involved in a London paedophile ring while serving with the Metropolitan Police as an active officer. |
| 1:09.9 | And it gets worse than that. Andy has heard claims that the case was |
| 1:13.5 | brushed under the carpet and covered up. On today's episode of the newsagents, we speak to Andy |
| 1:19.1 | about his story, his jaw-dropping story, and ask what it tells us about the culture of the |
| 1:25.4 | metropolitan police, both then and now. Welcome to the news |
| 1:30.2 | agents. |
| 1:34.9 | The news agents. It's Lewis, just me today, and we have Andy Hughes, who is LBC |
| 1:41.1 | crime correspondent and co-host of the crime agents, you'll know, of course, here to talk through this extraordinary story at some length. |
| 1:48.2 | And it is an extraordinary story, Andy, isn't it? |
| 1:50.1 | I mean, a former Met Officer being accused of being in a paedophile ring, |
| 1:53.7 | it is shocking. |
| 1:55.5 | How did it first come to your attention? |
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