By Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor\u00a0 | VT<\/p>\n
Former Labour MP and Under-secretary for Defense Ivor Caplin has been arrested after being confronted by an activist group of\u00a0\u201cpedophile hunters\u201d<\/em>\u00a0who accused him of trying to court a 15-year-old boy, officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n On Saturday, clips emerged on social media of a man resembling Caplin being confronted by members of the Stop Stings vigilante group at a railway station and later being handcuffed by police.<\/p>\n The group told The Sun that it had arranged a meeting with Caplin while posing as an\u00a0\u201cunderage boy.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The leader of Stop Stings, Dean Rowland, claimed that the activists\u00a0\u201chad done a lot of research before this meeting took place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe have been speaking to the individual for months over WhatsApp,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he noted, adding that\u00a0\u201call of the evidence has been handed over to the police now and we hope that justice will be done.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As the activists were pressing Caplin on the alleged messages, the ex-MP denied any wrongdoing, insisting that he was not going to meet any children.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Musk renews attack on British PM over mass-rape scandal<\/a><\/p>\n Following the controversy, Sussex Police confirmed that\u00a0\u201ca local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday, January 11 and currently remains in custody.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201cThis is an ongoing and active investigation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Ivor Caplin, a self-described\u00a0\u201cLGBT patron,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0served as the MP for Hove from 1997 to 2005 and held the role of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defense under Tony Blair. He was previously suspended from the Labour Party in June 2024 due to undisclosed\u00a0\u201cserious\u201d<\/em>\u00a0allegations.<\/p>\n In the days leading up to his arrest, Caplin publicly criticized tech billionaire Elon Musk for comments directed at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and MP Jess Phillips. Musk had accused Starmer of failing to prosecute child grooming gangs \u2013 mainly consisting of Pakistani men \u2013 during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions and labeled Phillips a\u00a0\u201crape genocide apologist\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for rejecting calls for a public inquiry into historic child abuse.<\/p>\n Caplin described Musk\u2019s remarks as\u00a0\u201ccompletely and utterly unfound[ed]\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and labeled them\u00a0\u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The tycoon responded to the news of Caplin\u2019s arrest by writing\u00a0\u201cwhat a creep\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on X.<\/p>\n ___ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ivor Caplin was targeted in a child protection operation by an activist group posing as a 15-year-old boy By Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor\u00a0 | VT Former Labour MP and Under-secretary for Defense Ivor Caplin has been arrested after being … Continue reading
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