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Iran has accused Kyiv of supporting US and Israeli attacks, escalating a diplomatic row. Ukraine rejects the claim, saying nearly 60,000 Iranian drones supplied to Russia have struck its territory — while “not a single Ukrainian drone has ever hit Iran.” kyivpost.com/post/72965

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Over recent months I’ve been working with The @Daily_Express journalist Zak Garner Curtis and Callum cuddeford who have really been doing some brilliant investigations. Here’s the latest work looking at how police forces have used “CAWNS” as a way to get rid of horrific child abuse cases… I remember the first time I saw a Child Abduction Warning Notice (CAWN) used in place of real action. It was 2005. On paper, a CAWN sounds decisive — a formal warning issued to an adult associating with a child where there are safeguarding concerns. In reality, I saw them deployed as a bureaucratic shield. A piece of paper instead of a prosecution. A warning instead of an arrest. A CAWN is not a criminal charge. It carries no immediate legal consequence. It is meant to disrupt risk. But too often it becomes the end of the story rather than the beginning of an investigation. Files are marked “action taken”. Supervisors reassured. Cases closed. Statistics look ‘tidier’. Meanwhile, children remain in danger. I saw this culture firsthand during Operation Augusta. In excess of three dozen children had been identified as victims of horrific organised abuse at the hands of at least 97 Pakistani Muslim men. The scale was staggering. The evidence existed to pursue serious sexual offence investigations. Yet not one of those men was charged. Not one of those children was properly protected. They were, in effect, knowingly abandoned. Instead, the case was closed and CAWNs were issued as if they were meaningful justice. They were not. They were a paper exercise that allowed an institution to say it had “done something” whilst avoiding the hard work, scrutiny and political fallout of prosecuting organised child rape. Again when I read the figures from Operation Sanctuary in Northumbria , I see two very different stories. The PR machine says there have been 97 convictions and 35 ongoing prosecutions. Taxi drivers suspended. Deportations pursued. That matters. But alongside those figures ‘hides’ the fact that 220 Child Abduction Warning Notices. And that is where my alarm bells ring! Because I know how easily CAWNs can become a substitute for building strong rape and exploitation cases. Instead, notices are served, boxes ticked, vehicle allegedly ‘monitored’. Yet the abuse and exploitation continues. There is rarely any meaningful follow-up. Rarely any prosecution or accountability when the warning is invariably ignored. The notice just sits on file while children remain exposed and in danger. For me, CAWNs symbolise a deeper institutional failure — a system too often more concerned with managing risk on paper than confronting crime in reality. A warning notice is not justice. And when it is used to reduce serious charges or quietly close down difficult cases, it becomes part of the failure itself.