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Stephen Wright, Associate Editor (Investigations)

Stephen has reported for the Daily Mail on major crime cases in the UK and around the world since 1994. His notable investigations and campaigns include his marathon series of exposes on the VIP sex abuse inquiry Operation Midland, the corrupt Met commander Ali Dizaei, and the Stephen Lawrence murder case. He exposed the truth about a killer NHS nurse from the Philippines, earning the public praise of senior detectives, and reported from Ecuador on the rise of Albanian narcos there. He landed a string of major scoops covering the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trial in the US, and has earned the respect of police chiefs, high profile victims of crime and politicians for his work, which has also included tracking down a number of fugitives.

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Major boost for ex-polo playing soldier who has served 37 years for a murder he claims he did NOT commit as watchdog refers conviction to Court of Appeal - after Mail exposed key 'failures' in prosecution case

11/08/25 12:48

Clive Freeman has repeatedly denied he was responsible for the death of vagrant Alexander Hardie in London in 1988, but was convicted during an Old Bailey trial dubbed 'the gentleman and the tramp' the following year. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) today ordered the case be referred to the Court of Appeal, after this newspaper cast serious doubt over the circumstantial evidence used against the Zimbabwean national, a former elite soldier. It is understood the decision centres on allegedly flawed pathology evidence. Mr Freeman's spokesman, Tony Thompson, broke news of the stunning development in a highly emotional meeting at Leyhill Prison near Gloucester this morning....read

The innocent man wrongly locked up for murder for 38 YEARS who was cruelly denied parole...after he refused to say he was guilty of a crime he did not commit
15/05/25 05:01
Peter Sullivan spent 38 years in jail for a murder he didn't commit but the Parole Board turned him down for release just three months ago after he said he 'maintains his innocence'
The new hunt for Diane's killer: Brutally battered to death as she walked to get petrol 39 years ago. Now Diane Sindall's family face fresh quest for justice after DNA bombshell saw 'Beast of Birkenhead' Peter Sullivan's conviction quashed
13/05/25 09:47
Diane Sindall, who was 21 and engaged to be married, was savagely attacked while walking to get petrol after a late shift in a pub in Birkenhead.
The one affront to justice in the Lucy Letby case that IS beyond doubt: Mail's veteran crime writer STEPHEN WRIGHT reveals the insider secrets that could change everything
09/02/25 01:52
The case of Lucy Letby , the former nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others, stormed back onto the front pages last week.
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'I think I'm daft…please help me…I don't understand my own mind': The plea of the 'Beast of Birkenhead' who's served 38 years in jail for murder when he could be innocent
02/02/25 10:01
Peter Sullivan, who is set to be declared innocent in the UK's longest-ever miscarriage of justice case, wrote a statement decades ago telling police he was 'daft' and could not understand why he lied.
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Twenty-one years after he hanged himself in prison, how Dr Death may have murdered as many as 1,000 patients - and why he won't be the last killer doctor
02/02/25 01:14
The former GP was considered by his neighbours to be a bit of a recluse, although he would sometimes venture out of his living space to mix with others if he felt sociable.
I spent months investigating the 'Beast of Birkenhead' and combing over all the evidence. This is the truth behind Britain's worst ever miscarriage of justice - and the chilling hunt for the REAL killer who is still out there: STEPHEN WRIGHT
02/02/25 01:56
That Friday night had been a busy one at The Wellington in Bebington and part-time barmaid Diane Sindall was glad to be heading home.
Miscarriage of justice watchdog boss resigns over rape case scandal that saw Andrew Malkinson wrongly jailed for 17 years - as she blasts panel that said she should lose her job for 'turning her a scapegoat'
14/01/25 09:14
Helen Pitcher 'jumped before she was pushed' after a panel ruled she should lose her job over failings that saw an innocent man jailed for 17 years for a rape he did not commit.
My husband Earl Spencer kept a long-term mistress and dumped me by text: Estranged wife's astonishing court claims about end of her marriage - and the explosive email she sent to his archaeologist girlfriend
30/12/24 06:57
Countess Karen Spencer is accusing her husband Earl Spencer of having had an affair since 2022 'and more likely since 2021' with Dr Cat Jarman, an archaeologist digging for a Roman villa at Althorp.
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Revealed: How the 'Lucan set' could have helped the murderous peer vanish. STEPHEN WRIGHT reveals the truth about his aristocratic friends... and why they vowed never to break their silence
28/11/24 04:57
For five decades, some of Scotland Yard's finest have been convinced that Lord Lucan was smuggled out of the UK. Suspicion fell on his tight-knit circle of friends in the so-called 'Lucan Set'.
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Where did Lord Lucan REALLY go? The escort girl who saw him at a party in Portugal, the upper-class gambling friends who helped him flee - and the country the trail leads to, as revealed by STEPHEN WRIGHT
25/11/24 05:06
In the third part of his gripping series on the fugitive, Stephen Wright examines a range of sightings of the 7th Earl of Lucan, who vanished in 1974 after the murder of his children's nanny.
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STEPHEN WRIGHT: The 'evil genius', bigamist, drug dealer and playboy peer who 'helped' Lord Lucan - and his truly BIZARRE disguise...
24/11/24 01:53
His final resting place can be found under a tree in a cemetery 7,000 miles from his old stomping ground at the House of Lords, where he once pledged allegiance to the Crown.
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Lord Lucan stayed with us in the Philippines TEN YEARS after he vanished and I have the irrefutable proof: Wife of British peer breaks her silence in world-first interview
22/11/24 04:56
In a series of bombshell revelations, Editha says Lord Lucan came to the Philippines, from Thailand, to pick up a false passport that had been arranged for him by her husband Tony Moynihan in the 1980s.
Crimefighter at Britain's FBI is secretly sacked for taking 'gifts' in second scandal exposed by the Mail in a week
21/11/24 12:29
Charlie Edwards, the £130,000-a-year 'Director of Strategy' at Britain's version of the FBI, was dismissed after a panel concluded he 'acted inappropriately during a procurement exercise'.
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Revealed: Cop who led Met's shambolic VIP abuse inquiry was secretly found guilty of misconduct for security blunder after his work laptop was stolen from his car when he was at the theatre with his wife
15/11/24 06:39
Steve Rodhouse, Director General (Operations) at the National Crime Agency, 'recklessly' left his work laptop in the back seat of his parked car while attending the theatre with his wife.
Pictured: Police marksman who shot Jean Charles de Menezes dead is revealed for first time and says he killed innocent man because 'I was 100 per cent convinced we were all about to die'
08/11/24 09:01
The former officer, named only as C12, said he shot Jean Charles de Menezes on a London underground train on July 22, 2005, because he thought, 'If I don't do something now, we are all going to die.
Was there an Establishment cover-up to protect Prince Andrew and other VIPs in the thrall of Jeffrey Epstein? I suspect so, says STEPHEN WRIGHT
18/09/24 01:57
It was the summer of 2020, and Prince Andrew was reeling from a series of scandals and own goals. His BBC Newsnight interview about the Virginia Roberts affair had backfired spectacularly.
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The middle class mother who now regrets not going through with a plan to hire a hitman to kill her daughter's violent boyfriend - because he went on to murder her
07/09/24 12:41
Peter and Anne Hall are the most unlikely couple to contemplate murder. But when their daughter formed a relationship with an abusive career criminal, they considered something unimaginable.
Leon Brittan's widow blasts police watchdog over how it has yet again 'failed' victims of Scotland Yard's disastrous VIP abuse inquiry
02/09/24 09:30
Lady Brittan said the delays in bringing gross misconduct proceedings against the gaffe-prone officer who led Operation Midland are 'deeply troubling'.
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The most dangerous killer I've ever encountered. He tortured then butchered women in the most depraved way possible. So what Cambridge-educated Rurik Jutting is up to now beggers belief... STEPHEN WRIGHT reports
31/08/24 12:55
His home is in one of the most expensive parts of Hong Kong, a city where property prices are among the highest in the world. It's close enough to the coast for the former.
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New inquiry launched into the conviction of ex-polo playing soldier Clive Freeman who has served 35 years for a murder he insists he did NOT commit
25/08/24 11:31
In the wake of a series of Daily Mail revelations, the beleaguered body which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice has commissioned new scientific analysis of the death of Alexander Hardie.
Head of Criminal Case Review Commission is set to lose her job after 'utterly damning' report found Andrew Malkinson - who spent 17 years in prison for rape he did not commit - could have been freed a decade earlier
18/07/24 12:29
Helen Pitcher is under enormous pressure to step down after a top barrister threw the book at her organisation over its handling of the case of Andrew Malkinson.
Lord Lucan is guilty! Thousands join online jury and convict the aristocrat of the murder of his family's nanny and near-fatal attack on his estranged wife in special episode of the Mail's chart-topping podcast The Trial of Lord Lucan
10/06/24 07:37
Listeners to the Mail's ground-breaking podcast The Trial of Lord Lucan tonight delivered their verdicts over the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett and attempted murder of the mother of his children.
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Innocent or guilty? You've heard barristers argue the Lucan case... now listen to the verdict on Mail's chart-topping podcast The Trial of Lord Lucan
09/06/24 10:55
From 6am today, a special episode will reveal whether the 7th Earl of Lucan is guilty or innocent of the murder of his children's nanny and the attempted murder of his estranged wife.
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Don't miss the chance to cast YOUR verdict on Lord Lucan, with time running out in the Mail's exclusive podcast poll
07/06/24 09:00
Listeners of the chart-topping Trial Of Lord Lucan have until noon tomorrow to decide whether he was responsible for the brutal killing of nanny Sandra Rivett 50 years ago.
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THE TRIAL OF LORD LUCAN FINALE - A Tsunami Of Prejudice: Defence questions whether Lord Lucan could ever get a fair trial after being 'vilified' and 'convicted countless times' already. Listen and then cast your final verdict
07/06/24 05:00
In his closing speech, the defence barrister urges jurors to judge the case on 'the evidence, and the evidence alone', saying Lord Lucan had been the victim of a 'tsunami of prejudice'.
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The only female detective on the case reveals Lord Lucan's 10-year-old daughter's account of the murder and how the Clermont Set covered for him
06/06/24 04:27
The Crown's case against Lord Lucan was revealed exclusively in the Mail last week. Today, the Lucan Files continue with an interview with the only female detective involved in the investigation.
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THE TRIAL OF LORD LUCAN, DAY FOUR - The Policeman's Story: Surviving witness from night of nanny's murder reveals how he attended peer's Belgravia home after Lady Lucan raised the alert
06/06/24 08:00
The Trial Of Lord Lucan hears from one of the few surviving witnesses from the night of Sandra Rivett's death, Chris Baddick, who as a rookie policeman attended the murder scene in London.
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THE TRIAL OF LORD LUCAN, DAY THREE - The Nanny Who Survived: French woman, now 78, who spent a year looking after the peer's children gives 'through the keyhole' account of life at his Belgravia home
05/06/24 08:00
Pierrette Goletto gives an extraordinary 'through the keyhole' account of life behind the front door at 46, Lower Belgrave Street, Belgravia - including her encounters with the 'tall and handsome' peer.
THE TRIAL OF LORD LUCAN, DAY TWO - Prosecution Opening Statement: Gambling addict 'plotted murder to ease his finances and rid himself of his estranged wife'... and his daughter, 10, was a crucial witness in the case
04/06/24 01:31
Today on the podcast The Trial Of Lord Lucan, senior barrister Max Hardy takes on the role of the Prosecutor as two real-life eminent barristers argue whether Lord Lucan was innocent or guilty.
The Lord Lucan files: An extraordinarily vivid interview with the PC who was first on the scene at the Lucan mansion... Next to a pool of blood was a sack with a body in it - one arm was hanging out
04/06/24 12:31
Fifty years after the murder that shocked Britain, the Crown's case against Lord Lucan was exclusively revealed in the Mail last week in an extract from a confidential Scotland Yard document.
THE TRIAL OF LORD LUCAN, DAY ONE - The Document: How the case was built after the peer's powerful friends went silent to protect him when he vanished following nanny's murder
03/06/24 01:01
In episode two of the Mail's landmark podcast series The Trial Of Lord Lucan, an actor quotes from the 15,000-word Scotland Yard document which gives a definitive account of the Lord Lucan mystery.
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Pierrette was Lord Lucan's first nanny and saw the hatred at the heart of the peer's marriage. Now in her first ever interview she says: I'm haunted by the belief my sacking led to Britain's most notorious fugitive blugeoning his next nanny to death
02/06/24 01:10
Rarely has a murder been the subject of so much conjecture and enduring mystery. On the night of November 7, 1974, Lord Lucan bludgeoned to death the nanny Sandra Rivett.
A midnight encounter and why the last person to see Lucan alive was an 'infatuated' former deb who defended him to the grave...
01/06/24 01:05
Goodbye, Susie - thank you. That brief sentence, uttered on a doorstep in East Sussex in the early hours of Friday, November 8, 1974, are the last words known to have been spoken by Lord Lucan.
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After the Mail unearthed bombshell report, now our groundbreaking Trial of Lord Lucan podcast storms to the top of the True Crime charts. Listen here to cast your verdict on Britain's most notorious murder mystery
30/05/24 04:24
The Mail's ground-breaking new podcast, The Trial of Lord Lucan, has stormed to the top of the charts within hours of being launched.
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE - BOMBSHELL LUCAN DOSSIER: The explosive case file that reveals the truth about Lord Lucan and the nanny he bludgeoned to death - PLUS a world-first podcast event on Britain's most notorious murder
29/05/24 03:51
The Mail has obtained a sensational, never-before-seen Scotland Yard report from almost 50 years ago that finally reveals the definitive account of the Lord Lucan mystery.
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Key evidence in the 'burking' murder trial was 'hidden' from defence lawyers - as supporters for man who spent 35 years in jail say he was at 'significant disadvantage'
19/05/24 10:35
Supporters of Clive Freeman, 80, say the failure to provide his legal team with material documents put him at a significant disadvantage.
I know what kind of killer murdered Jill Dando: As wild theories about the TV presenter's death persist, the Met's lead detective tells STEPHEN WRIGHT why he's sure his instincts are right in an exclusive interview
24/04/24 04:05
April 26, 1999, had started as a quiet day in Scotland Yard's murder unit in West London. DCI Hamish Campbell had been on call for a week but, with no homicides, his team had become restless.
Former MP attacks police watchdog over delay to disciplinary proceedings for head of shambolic VIP abuse inquiry
15/04/24 11:16
Nearly a year after the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) ruled that Steve Rodhouse should face disciplinary proceedings, no date has been fixed for a misconduct board.
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'Polite and courteous, he's had an exemplary record ever since he arrived at the prison': Governor's report on ex-polo playing soldier who has served 35 years for a murder he insists he did NOT commit is revealed
01/04/24 09:10
'Burking' killer Clive Freeman, 80, was convicted in 1989 of murdering Alexander Hardie, 49, in what prosecutors said was part of a planned £300,000 insurance swindle
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I stared deep into the convicted murderer's eyes and asked him: 'Did you do it?' STEPHEN WRIGHT interviews the man who's spent 36 years in prison with monsters such as Charles Bronson and Jeremy Bamber despite claiming he's innocent. So do YOU believe him?
26/03/24 12:02
The highly charged moment came just ten minutes before the end of our two-hour encounter. Eyeball to eyeball, I confronted the convicted murderer across the table.
Eminent former judges hit out at 'murder that never was' as experts say polo player convicted 35 years ago may be innocent
19/03/24 10:44
Clive Freeman, an ex-polo-playing landowner, now 80, was convicted in 1989 of murdering Mr Hardie with a suffocation technique but eight pathologists and forensic experts have debunked the theory.
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Eight leading forensic experts say polo player convicted of murder 35 years ago may be innocent
13/03/24 09:57
In documents submitted to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), they have debunked claims that Clive Freeman killed Alexander Hardie using the 'Burking' method.
What happened to Fred and Rosemary West's children: 30 years after 'house of horrors' was found, STEPHEN WRIGHT reveals how some live in fear, others have built happy lives… while a few were cut down by fresh tragedy
20/02/24 01:49
How could anyone raised in such a warped environment not be affected by it? How do you cope with being a child of arguably Britain's most evil couple ever?
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Did the premature death of his mother drive 'Mummy's Boy' serial killer Harold Shipman to kill more than a hundred elderly women? Twenty years after the killer GP's suicide in prison, STEPHEN WRIGHT pieces together the evidence
23/01/24 11:49
Two decades have passed since Shipman killed himself, but disturbing questions remain about the case and about how the medical profession deals with misconduct or even criminality by its members.
This is the scariest city I have ever visited. In 30 years of reporting I have never felt so unsafe. Inside the epicentre of Ecuador's blood-soaked gang war where assassins are as young as 12 and you never know who to trust
10/01/24 09:22
These days, many of us are used to seeing shocking footage online. But the scenes that took place in an Ecuadorean TV station this week are in a horrifying new league.
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STEPHEN WRIGHT: Comparing female pundits to depravity of serial killers is an obscene new low for deluded, sexist thug Joey Barton
06/01/24 10:30
In the Autumn of 1995 I spent seven weeks covering the prosecution of West which, in terms of horror, is without parallel during my 30-year crime reporting career at the Daily Mail.
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As new documents uncover details about sex-trafficking conspiracy... Why weren't these four women in the dock with Ghislaine for also enabling Epstein?
05/01/24 10:01
How can it be that, in a case so vast, which saw the organised sex-trafficking of scores of minors and young women, only one person - Ghislaine Maxwell - is now in prison?
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Jeffrey Epstein's victim claims she was groped by Prince Andrew at the disgraced financier's Manhattan mansion in newly released court documents
04/01/24 10:44
Only excerpts of Johanna Sjoberg's testimony have been made public, but the documents give an account of what is said to have happened when she met Prince Andrew in New York in 2001.
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From THAT 'Pizza Express' alibi, lies to Emily Maitlis and an infamous trip to New York in 2001: All of the hotly-disputed sex claims against Prince Andrew, as he finds himself mired in allegations again after release of Epstein files
04/01/24 07:01
A little over three years ago, the Daily Mail published a bombshell four-part series on the hotly-disputed sex allegations facing the Duke of the York.
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Inside the garish £4m Kardashian-style Surrey mansion of Scotland Yard's most notorious corrupt commander Ali Dizaei and his glamorous wife
17/11/23 04:52
EXCLUSIVE: The video shows an attractive middle-aged woman wearing a plunging green vest top and designer sunglasses, opening the double-height doors to a white stucco mansion.
Moment Albanian drugs lord, exposed in Mail's 'Narcos' documentary for flooding UK with cocaine, is finally arrested by team of armed police in Istanbul with Colombian passport
10/11/23 04:50
Dritan Rexhepi, in his early 40s, was held in a dramatic operation after his details were circulated on an Interpol red notice for drug smuggling and other offences including murder.
Was model Lisa Brinkworth the real target of a hitman who shot Jill Dando? That's the theory buried in French legal papers, as our compelling dossier reveals on the eve of a major new Netflix investigation
26/09/23 12:28
BBC journalist Jill Dando (pictured) was shot dead outside her house in Fulham, London, in April 1999.
The day Jill Dando was murdered: A startled scream, a gate clangs, a figure runs... Major Mail investigation tells how police probed 1,393 suspects from Kenneth Noye to a Russian Mafia don. So as new Netflix show airs, could her assassin FINALLY be found?
24/09/23 10:15
Much-loved BBC Personality of the Year, Jill Dando, 37, was killed outside her own front door in Fulham, London by a single gun shot to the head in April 1999.
STEPHEN WRIGHT: The payout to the family of murdered private detective Daniel Morgan is a stain of corruption worse than the Stephen Lawrence inquiry
17/07/23 10:18
STEPHEN WRIGHT: The confidential out-of-court deal is part of a reported £2million settlement including legal costs which will see the Metropolitan Police admit failings in the case.
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Met Police agree 'significant' six-figure settlement to Daniel Morgan's family after admitting 'corruption, incompetence and defensiveness' mired its failed investigation
17/07/23 10:27
The Met agreed to pay compensation to Daniel Morgan's family 18 months after they announced plans to sue the force, alleging that a decades-long cover-up of corruption.
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Doreen Lawrence slams CPS decision not to charge four retired Met Police detectives accused of misconduct over botched inquiry into her son Stephen's murder and says she is in 'immense distress'
07/07/23 12:58
Baroness Lawrence says she has been left in 'immense distress' by the fact four former Metropolitan Police officers will not face charges of misconduct in public office.
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EXCLUSIVE - Four retired Met Police detectives accused of misconduct over botched Stephen Lawrence inquiry WON'T face criminal charges because of insufficient evidence, CPS rules
06/07/23 11:11
After considering a file on the case for over two and a half years, the CPS has ruled there is insufficient evidence to charge any of the four retired officers with misconduct in public office.
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How the Met botched its investigation into a depraved detective after he was reported by four victims of sex crimes who had slept with him
04/07/23 09:02
An inquiry into the conduct of a senior Scotland Yard detective Inspector Warren Arter (pictured) was 'botched' after he was reported by four victims of sex crimes who had slept with him, it has emerged.
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Why did it take seven years to sack the drug-taking, orgy-loving Met detective in the elite rape squad… and why has he kept his pension?
01/07/23 12:02
Warren Arter is estimated to have earned around £400,000 since he was suspended over allegations that he abused his position 'for a sexual purpose', and used and supplied cocaine
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Why are we still waiting to bring police to justice? Ex-CPS chief condemns delay over botched Stephen Lawrence case probe
27/06/23 09:35
A former top prosecutor has attacked the 'excessive' time it has taken to decide whether four detectives in the Stephen Lawrence case should face criminal charges.
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Stephen Lawrence murder suspect's chilling nickname and threat to black man: Sixth suspect dubbed himself 'the lucky one' and warned victim, 'You'll be Stephen Lawrenced' in attack three years ago
27/06/23 07:38
Matthew 'Matty' White, who died aged 50 of a drugs overdose in 2021, also attacked a black shopkeeper yards from where the aspiring architect died in Eltham.
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EXCLUSIVE Stephen Lawrence's father's fury at Met as sixth suspect in his murder is unmasked: He blames the police for 'appalling' failure of investigation into fair-haired assailant
26/06/23 10:15
Neville Lawrence said it was 'appalling' to learn that Matthew 'Matty' White had escaped justice for 28 years.
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Scotland Yard VIP abuse probe chief Steve Rodhouse FINALLY loses his top job... but he's still working at the crime agency in the 'back office'
02/06/23 09:00
The blundering head of Scotland Yard's disastrous VIP abuse inquiry, Steve Rodhouse (pictured), has been removed from the National Crime Agency to 'protect public confidence'.
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The nexus of Nick: Graphic reveals the extraordinary police, media and political links in catastrophic sex abuse probe into innocent VIPs - as failure to suspend head of bungled inquiry from £200k job sparks fury
26/05/23 10:09
Operation Midland, launched in 2014, saw homes ransacked and reputations trashed on the bogus testimony of paedophile fantasist Carl Beech.
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Now suspend him! Fury as the head of Scotland Yard's shambolic VIP abuse inquiry keeps his job despite being set to face gross misconduct proceedings
25/05/23 09:00
Despite the revelation that Steve Rodhouse is to face gross misconduct proceedings, the former Met deputy assistant commissioner remains joint deputy head at the National Crime Agency.
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Story by story, how the Mail's STEPHEN WRIGHT exposed Operation Midland - the scandalous Scotland Yard investigation into 'VIP abuse'
24/05/23 06:14
The Mail's Stephen Wright has spent eight years campaigning for accountability over the Met's botched inquiry into wild claims of abuse by VIPs. Here, we look back at his battle for justice.
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Head of Scotland Yard's VIP sex abuse investigation Steve Rodhouse faces gross misconduct charge over allegations he lied in public
24/05/23 03:31
Former Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse should face a disciplinary board over allegations he lied in public at the conclusion of Operation Midland, the police watchdog has ruled.
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EXCLUSIVE: High-ranking Met Police officer on £100,000-a-year who was found to be a regular user of 'high-class' prostitutes was allowed to keep his job after he was let off with a minor rebuke
01/05/23 06:03
The middle-aged man, who commands a salary package of over £100,000 a year, was given a minor rebuke when colleagues in the Met's Professional Standards unit discovered his sex shame.
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The Met's descent into the abyss began with Labour's favourite copper - a man who was woke before woke was even invented, writes STEPHEN WRIGHT
21/03/23 11:01
STEPHEN WRIGHT: Ian Blair's promotion in 2005 to Commissioner was controversial. Dubbed 'New Labour's favourite policeman', he put politics into policing like never before.
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'If you fail, they kill': Ecuadorian gang kingpin Carlos the Devil's sidekick tells the Mail about feared Albanian Narcos - as our video expose of their blood-soaked global cocaine empire shows brutal restaurant execution
19/03/23 05:01
From beneath his baseball cap, worn back to front but pulled down low, his eyes were full of hostile suspicion
REVEALED: The blood-soaked Albanian narco gangs that mean people can get cocaine in British cities quicker than a Deliveroo pizza... and the trail of devastation left in their wake that should shame the middle class addicts who fund them
17/03/23 10:01
Known locally as 'the Albos', these men are the drug dealers at the bottom of the chain in organised crime groups that supply cocaine 24/7 to customers in the city of Brighton and Hove and beyond.
EXCLUSIVE Albanian narcos bringing cocaine misery from Ecuador to the streets of Britain: Investigation lays bare how mafia has seized control of transatlantic smuggling routes to flood cities like Brighton with drugs
17/03/23 05:01
Albanian gangsters have ruthlessly seized control of the supply of cocaine in South America to flood Britain's streets with record amounts of the drug, a Daily Mail investigation today reveals.
A mother of two remains missing after her personal troubles were laid bare to the world by a bungling force. This might not be such a circus if Lancashire Police didn't demonise the media, argues STEPHEN WRIGHT
16/02/23 10:12
STEPHEN WRIGHT: Mother of two Nicola Bulley (pictured) remains missing after her private troubles were laid bare to the world by a bungling force which is rightly facing condemnation.
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Stephen Lawrence murderer David Norris is sent to tougher jail after he was caught twice with mobile phone behind bars
11/12/22 10:07
Racist thug David Norris (pictured), 46, has been switched from Category C Dartmoor to Category B Exeter in the wake of the scandal.
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Former Tory MP who was caught up in false 'VIP paedophile ring' scandal demands 'full transparency' over exit of police watchdog chief accused of 'inappropriate historical relationship with a child aged 14 or 15'
04/12/22 10:02
Michael Lockwood, former director-general of the Independent Office for Police conduct, quit on Friday amid allegations said to be sexual in nature from when he was in his 20s.
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EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Lawrence killer David Norris is caught with mobile phone in his cell for SECOND time as police launch another probe just months after first incident was revealed
27/11/22 10:04
Prison chiefs are facing questions after David Norris, one of Stephen Lawrence's jailed killers, was found in possession of a mobile phone for the second time in two months.
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British anti-narcotics officer is SACKED from her glamorous Barbados posting after 'selling a key UK spy asset'
25/11/22 10:44
Annie Norris, who was based at the British High Commission in Barbados, was fired after an inquiry into the sale of a high value 'covert asset' used to spy on drug traffickers.
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Head of Scotland Yard's catastrophic VIP sex abuse inquiry faces gross misconduct proceedings over 'misleading comments' at end of £2.5m probe
18/11/22 05:41
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-deputy assistant commissioner Steve Rodhouse has been served with a formal notice alleging he used 'inaccurate or dishonest' words at the conclusion of Operation Midland.
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Met terror chief wears 'hot flush vest' to understand the menopause: Yard boss who tried to feel 'authentic symptoms' at work is accused of woke stunt
11/11/22 05:35
Britain's anti-terror chief has been accused of a 'woke stunt' after he donned a special jacket that simulates menopausal hot flushes at Scotland Yard.
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