A MASSIVE canal based paedophile ring of scores of sex offenders living on narrowboats has been exposed.
Though the investigating detective, John Wedger, was threatened by his superiors that he would be 'thrown to the wolves' if he spoke out, he has done so, with the Independent Police Complaints Commission now investigating a string of cover-up allegations.
Living on narrowboats
It has been discovered that scores of sex offenders are living on narrowboats, with DC Wedger telling the inquiry:
"I found a lot of paedophiles were going off the radar. There was a loophole in the law that allowed them to live on canal boats without being on the electoral register."
When he identified the sex offenders he tells that he was taken off the case.
Boats in London
He told of a pimp free to groom teenage girls, as a magistrate was an alleged client of one of them; vice quad officers were ordered not to arrest prostitutes; a child prostitution ring operated from boats in London.
He says he was moved to a vice unit but told not to bring under-age girls into the station, however he told of occurrences involving under-age girls, but when he presented his report a senior officer summoned him to his office and took him off the case and shut it down.
It is understood that DC Wedger is still employed by the Metropolitan Police but has no current role with a cut in wages.
Supported
However he is being supported by a former police officer, Detective Constable Margaret Oliver who left Greater Manchester Police claiming her evidence of child sex ring victims was not being used to arrest members of the gangs grooming the children.
A police spokesman has stated that 'various allegations' were being assessed by its Professional Standards Directorate.