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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ALL whistle-blowers are targeted by their corrupt forces – I have talked to many who have sent me evidence. HMIC 2017 found 41 out of 43 regional constabularies corrupting child abuse cases. The BBC reported the matter of police “lying schools” officers have to attend to learn how to hide evidence and lie to victims. The corruption culture is decades embedded, and continues today. Cooper’s re-open exploitation cases previous NFAed, order to 43 Chief Constables is being converted into closed “repetitious complaints” case re-openings refused, which if carried out would expose the immense level of constabularies prior evidence-hiding, copies destructions, perjuries etc.. That is now, no “change” there. There is a lot of devaluing of whistle-blowers going around. The question is why?
Maybe Jon went to one of these “lying schools”?
Looks like he’s excelled in that particular skillset.
But seriously, no one is needed to devalue Jon Wedger, he has constantly succeeded in doing that to himself.
Like many of them, I think he plays it that way to dodge litigation.
Maybe his luck has run out this time though.
Richard, I don’t know about this particular guy, but in general, there are plenty of angry whistleblowers denouncing their constabularies, who have sent me evidence of corruption, and why they abandoned policing in disgust. You always know a real one when they get persecuted by their ex-force with outrageous lying. We have many examples, we can’t use them in Court, but what they send gives us general information of what is going on top down, that repeats again and again . E.G. some chief constables now converting ex-Home Secretary Cooper’s orders to them, to re-open child trafficking / exploitation cases into closed slammed shut “repetitious complaints”. This means these constabularies collude in hiding council baby / child trafficking for sex abuse and torture as “not in the national interest to prosecute”. They follow the laws of Iran. “Duty of candour” ?? Best joke of the year. NPCC funded by constabularies “donations” 132 million pounds a year to serve constabularies interests, not victims of constabularies. How many trafficking previously corrupted NFAed cases does NPCC CSA have for ‘review and on.pass’ ? 35. Half a million “Forced Adoptions” 3,000 sterilisations cases and millions of child abuse 98% covered up. NPCC CSA has 35 cases. Makes you think U.K. does not have ‘police’ forces, but colluding criminal paedophile mafias known as ‘constabularies’. U.N. Special Procedures:- “Britain is the worst of industrialised nations for child abuse.” My work involves submitting multi-cases evidence of the mechanisms of corruption these constabularies and lying PSD victim anger sponges with no remits, forces use as force-dustbins, and other mechanisms of constabularies evidential, (medical / crime) evidence lying and corruption to U.N. Special Procedures. PSDs always lie to shield their friends and colleagues. Some PCCs do not carry out their role to hold chief constables to account in deception and perjury cases. Their PCC usual trick is to remain silent to provided evidence. They are salaried to shut up, only having remits against chief constables, not the rest of a force, but PCCs curiously use force-PSD lying to justify doing nothing against chief constables who have lied to hide force corruption. PCC Grand force ‘plans’ that do not happen, to keep victims not shouting too loudly hoping for better times that never happen. So this Jon Wedger may have a point somewhere, but at the end of the day, it is actual documents of evidence that matters when Prosecuting the corrupt.
I’ve been disappointed by the Express because they have rather been on the bash the Duke and Duchess of Sussex daily. I mean if people don’t warm to them that’s one thing but bash, bash, bash (metaphorically) day after day. It becomes tiresome.
I’d have thought with something as serious as child exploitation that the Express would not have done due diligence. The trouble is when there are phoneys it can detract from the true cases – and there are true cases where some poor children are exploited.
Edit: I should have said “that the Express would have done due diligence” – the “not” is superfluous and prevents the sentence from making sense.
Richard Bilton is correct. Wedger is an obvious phoney.
I seem to remember Mr Wedger was on the Baby Peter Connolly case. I don’t know when he worked on the case I must be honest but the Police in general didn’t handle that case awfully well.
Does anyone know if Jon Wedger is in fact “decorated”. I don’t know categorically that he isn’t but don’t know when and where he was given a gong if in fact he was given one.