The former Labour MP for Hove, Ivor Caplin, was arrested today (Saturday 11 January) after a sting by paedophile hunters.
The sting was live-streamed on Facebook and further footage of the arrest was shared online.
Sussex Police said: “We are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a man in Brighton being detained on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child.
“Officers can confirm that a local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday January 11 and currently remains in custody.
“This is an ongoing and active investigation.”
A confrontation with Mr Caplin, a former defence minister, was livestreamed on Facebook, lasting 30 minutes and attracting more than 36,000 views and 3,000 comments.
Further footage of his arrest similarly shared online.
Mr Caplin is understood to deny any wrongdoing.
That water in the bottle he was obsessing over seriously needs testing for substances which make people unconscious…
The sweets too!!
In these cases the police seize all computer devices belonging to the arrested person like phones and computers for analysis so we must hope they don’t find anything bad.
It will be brushed under the carpet if they find anything
That’s the truth.
“… we must hope they don’t find anything bad.”
Why?
Is he not part of the labour Jewish defence league?
I have a lot of jewish friends who would be disgusted by this. The issue is these people often get themselves into powerful positions. Think they are untouchable, this is a public interest issue now, there will be a lot of pressure to bring charges and a convictions and reign this behaviour in, i hope also due to his access to young people there must be an example set here and time spent in prison, being added to the sexual offenders register for the rest of his life. Victims of these horrific and life changing crimes need to know the authorities are taking the issue seriously and going down hard to stop these incidents. Keep our children safe, cant just be sting groups doing all the work, as great as they are.
Slightly premature as this person has not been found guilty in law of anything yet!
He’ll probably get a slap on the wrist. Starmer likes to release paedophles early to make way for lawful protestors.
His religion has nothing to do with this. His position as a Defence Minister, most likely known to the KGB/GRU/FSS is.
According to one of Andy Winter’s blogs current Kemptown MP used to work for Ivor Caplin but started distancing him some time ago. Andy’s blog post makes interesting reading with what we know now – he said back in Jene last year:
“Some feel that Chris hasn’t been straight with them. His original CV sent to members mentioned that he once worked for Ivor Caplin, but, interestingly, reference to working for Ivor has been removed since Ivor was suspended by the Labour Party (an extremely unusual occurrence for someone on the right of the party).
“As one party member said to me: “Whenever something odd happens in the Labour Party, all roads lead back to Ivor Caplin. Guess who helped select the Council candidates for 2023 – including two that allegedly didn’t live in Brighton?”
Bella Sankey has some questions to answer about she knew about Caplin and when. This isn’t his first arrest for dodgy allegations. Ivor Caplin not only selected the Labour councillor candidates as mentioned by another – he picked Sankey as council leader and presented her as a single candidate for leader to the new labour council group.