Key Highlights The Metropolitan Police is investigating alleged non-recent serious sexual offences involving David Walliams. The force said the allegations are separate from complaints previously reported by ITN and The Guardian, but detectives are reviewing that reporting. Walliams, 55, denies wrongdoing and any allegations of criminal activity. Warning: This article contains discussion of sexual offences ...
Key Highlights: Model Lilly Creightmore has publicly alleged that television personality and author David Walliams persistently pressured her for sex after contacting her when she was 18 and he was 32. A joint investigation by The Guardian and ITV News detailing claims of sexual misconduct and grooming was published following a failed legal injunction, with ...
Key Highlights Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault dating between 2004 and 2009. Following the court hearing, Brand’s father, Ron Brand, dismissed the verdict outside Southwark Crown Court, asking reporters if they meant “The victim? ...
Key Highlights: The Metropolitan Police published interrogation footage of Russell Brand following his conviction for rape and three counts of sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court. During police questioning across late 2023 and mid-2025, Brand read prepared statements claiming his interactions were consensual and declined to answer specific allegations directly. The 51-year-old former comedian and ...
Key Highlights: Meghan Markle provided London’s Metropolitan Police with a retained copy of a 2019 warning letter after the force lost the original document concerning her estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr. The letter, authored by Thomas Markle Sr.’s ex-wife Roslyn Loveless, warned the Met’s Fixated Threat Assessment Centre of potential risks and accused him of ...
Key Highlights Meghan Markle claimed that law enforcement presented her with a concerning letter in 2018 detailing allegations regarding her father, Thomas Markle Sr. London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed that they never conducted an investigation into Thomas Markle Sr. A representative for the Metropolitan Police told Page Six that the department is “aware of media” reports ...
Key Highlights: London’s High Court determined that Chinese law governs property rights over 61,000 Bitcoin seized by the Metropolitan Police, currently valued at roughly $5 billion. The ruling stems from civil recovery proceedings targeting fraud mastermind Zhimin Qian, who was sentenced to 11 years and eight months for money laundering. While the decision establishes the ...
Key Highlights: The London High Court ruled that victims of a massive Chinese Ponzi scheme cannot use English law to claim 61,000 seized bitcoin worth approximately £3.8 billion ($5 billion). Mr Justice Mark Turner determined that Chinese law must govern the property claims because the underlying fraud took place entirely within China. The decision significantly ...
Key Highlights The Financial Conduct Authority, HM Revenue & Customs, and the Metropolitan Police jointly inspected three London commercial premises on September 10 over suspected unregistered peer-to-peer crypto trading, with details published on September 17. Cease-and-desist notices were issued to the businesses involved, targeting physical and P2P operations operating outside the UK’s anti-money-laundering registration and ...
Key Highlights The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), and the Metropolitan Police conducted a joint enforcement action against three peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency trading locations in London, issuing cease-and-desist letters. No P2P crypto trading businesses are currently registered with the FCA in the UK, meaning any operator conducting P2P trading by way ...