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WATCH: Ex-Met Police officer tells GB News he was 'forced' to drop child abuse investigation
Oct 29, 2025
Former Met Police officer and whistleblower Jon Wedger has said Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan is "beyond redemption" over grooming gangs in London.Speaking to GB News, Mr Wedger revealed that he was told to drop investigations into 50 cases of child abuse or he would "lose his home, job and children", as what he had exposed would "F the Metropolitan Police".FULL STORY HERE.
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It was more aggressive and coarse than that
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I was told that if I continued to look into it or revealed my findings as one of two officers
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that was dedicated to looking for children involved in what we call a crime of prostitution
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I'm not endorsing the term, I'm just saying it was, when I put my findings on an intelligence report
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and I was submitted to a senior officer, I was told that if I continued on my path
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I would lose my home, my job and my children. What I had exposed would F the Metropolitan Police
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past, present and future. I cannot and will not allow this out
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That's what I was told. And I was told that there was nowhere for me to go. And if I classed the attitude of the officer as bullying
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he told me that he would not betray fellow rank, nor would they
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So you were basically forced not to do anything? That was it. I was then removed straight away from the operation
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an active operation in which we had dozens of young kids, girls and boys, from the ages of nine to 14
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involved in being pimped out on the streets of London, most of which were addicted to crack cocaine and heroin and some had life diseases such as AIDS hepatitis C and contagious tuberculosis This is almost back to Dickensy in England
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And I thought, you know, in the Victorian times we sorted all this out. But it's all come back
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Was it different to the grooming gangs in Rochester and Rotherham, which were predominantly Pakistani
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Was there a different twist on this? Yeah, I mean, the premise is the same, but we've got to bear in mind that most abuse goes on in the home
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80% of the abuse goes on in the home. a child that's been abused is six times more likely
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to be involved in the trafficking for crime, whatever it might be
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Stepparents equate for most of the abuse. But the ones that were, if we could classic grooming games on these girls
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we had Jamaican Yardies, we had Albanians, Kosovans, Lithuanians. One of the most prolific pimp, as it were, was a white woman
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who we managed to get convicted for double figures. she was the first person ever to get convicted under the amended 2003 Sexual Offences Act
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But it was as diverse as the population of London. Yeah OK So slightly different to the north Yeah slightly different Same problem There were Bangladeshis and a few Pakistani gangs but they were in the areas that more represented their ethnicity
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Now, the Met have now said they're going to reopen 9,000 cases
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of child exploitation. Yeah. Is this, and you went through all this all those years ago
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are the Met finally waking up? Yeah, I was on Talk TV and I did a call-out to Sadiq Khan
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who, in my opinion, is beyond redemption on this topic, and also Mark Rowley
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because I genuinely believe that Mark Rowley, underneath that... The boss of the Met. The boss of the Met
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Yeah. Underneath that corporate exterior, there is a heart, and I appealed to his heart and said
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Mark, do the right thing. Do the right thing. You know, be the hero of the day
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Turn this around. It's in your power and capabilities. Do it. You know I'm not lying
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And I challenged Sadiq Khan and Mark Rowley. I said, prove me wrong, because you can't
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And it looks like he may have taken heed. whether he has or not he is now seems to be doing the right thing but the level of denial
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you know i mean i showed you one clip of the mayor there a previous time when he was asked about this he said no no no the problem is county lines drugs no i mean how How can the Mayor of London He must have known about this Yeah well of course you see but how it works
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you need dedicated officers on what's known as a proactive approach. You cannot have what they call fire brigade policing
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which is purely reactive. This crime never presents itself in a disorderly or dishonest way
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like most crime does. This is hidden, it's covert. The Met did have dedicated officers on the vice unit
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but they've shut all that down. How angry do you feel? When I saw that clip with Susan Hall being berated by
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and he was engaging in this seminar of semantics, a wordplay, and ignoring the most vile criminality going
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and the disregard and disrespect to victims and survivors of the most appalling crime
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You know, when a kid is sexually abused, the damage goes on for three generations
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And what about the suicides? You know, in order for healing, we need justice
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And in order for justice, we need to go out there and nick these people
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And I just turn around and say, you know, to the police, to Mark Rowley
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just do your job. Do it
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