Metropolitan Police 'prepares to reopen 4,000 [Islamic] grooming gang cases' - after London mayor Sadiq Khan was accused of downplaying problem in capital

The Metropolitan Police has identified more than 4,000 grooming gang cases that may need to be reinvestigated, according to a report. Scotland Yard has been carrying out a major audit of group-based sexual abuse in London dating back to 2010, amid concern that perpetrators could still be at large. Of the more than 12,000 alleged incidents that were reported to the Met during the period, a review has found that a third of them may need to be reopened. The potential major escalation of the Met's policing of historic grooming gang cases comes despite Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of...