Wedger’s comments endorsed by Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp
A front-page splash at the Daily Express:
Sadiq Khan is facing pressure to resign over his failure to accept there is a grooming gang problem in London
It comes after a police whistleblower revealed to the Express that the “horrific crime” has been rife in London for 20 years.
…Decorated former detective Jon Wedger claims he uncovered a trove of evidence suggesting that there is organised sexual exploitation of children in the capital on a level that goes way beyond notorious scandals in towns like Rotherham or Rochdale.
…”They were being sold in crack houses, swapped for nine rocks of crack, then taken to hotels to have sex with builders that were working in central London. After that, the kids would then be taken to upmarket Arab restaurants in Mayfair around the Curzon Street, where they would be traded for as much as £2,000 each. That was happening on a daily basis.”
…The former detective said Mr Khan should be “removed immediately” for repeatedly refusing to accept the problem and continuing a policy of “willful neglect” that, he felt, amounted to an “act of malfeasance in high office.”
Readers of the Express with reasonably long memories may wonder how it is that Jon Wedger is “revealing” anything at all in 2025, given that he was quoted extensively by the newspaper as a supposed “whistleblower” way back in 2017. At that time, a month after he had taken “ill health retirement”, he claimed that he had been forced out after investigating a “a well known prostitute in 2004 who was suspected of using children”. This individual
would ply youngsters, including a 14-year-old girl, with drugs and alcohol and then pimp them out to men in budget hotels near Paddington railway station in west London.
Wedger alleged he had been warned off by a senior officer after discovering links with organised crime and corrupt officers. A bit of digging by the Hoaxtead website a couple of years later showed that he was referring to the case of Fiona Walsh, although his claims of cover-ups and conspiracies failed to withstand scrutiny, not least because Walsh was tried and convicted and sent to prison in 2006.
It is notable that Wedger’s earlier story makes no mention of “upmarket Arab restaurants in Mayfair”, and it reasonable to suppose that this is an attempt to add an ethnic element to his (old) story that would resonate with accounts of Muslim-heritage “grooming gangs”. This then provides rather tortuous grounds for his criticism of Sadiq Khan, who did not become mayor of London unil 2016. Wedger’s complaint is based on a video clip of an exchange between Kahn and Conservative London Assembly member Susan Hall, which has been transcribed here.
The new Express article comes with a reaction quote from Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, who has also posted it to Twitter/X:
The comments by Jon Wedger are damning. This is yet another example of a cover up by the police who shut down his investigations into child sexual exploitation in London.
Sadiq Khan should be leaving no stone unturned to get to the bottom of organised child sexual exploitation in London – instead he has been facilitating a cover up.
Philp’s confidence in Wedger here as someone who has particular insight into police cover ups is somewhat problematic given broader allegations he has made. Take, for instance, a series of interviews Wedger provided to one John Cooper in 2023, which Cooper is selling on Amazon under the title The Great Reveal: Ex-Scotland Yard Detective Exposes Child Trafficking and Satanic Ritual Abuse Going All the Way to the Top. In 2019 Wedger heavily promoted wide-ranging SRA claims by a fanatic named Wilfred Wong, and he has since advocated for Wong’s freedom after he was convicted of abducting a child at knifepoint. Wedger’s self-description of being a police whistleblower has also been challenged by the Independent Police Support Group.
I noted a previous example of Chris Philp making an ill-considered investment in a particular narrative here.
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