Watchdog to probe CEOP over handling of intelligence

Child protection experts are to be investigated by the police complaints watchdog over delays in acting on intelligence about suspected British paedophiles.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to investigate how staff at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, now part of the National Crime Agency, dealt with information provided by Canadian Police in July 2012.

The NCS referred the matter to the IPCC last September after it emerged Ceop had failed to contact police forces concerning the intelligence for over a year.

It emerged last year that the tip-offs included information about disgraced Cambridgeshire medic Myles Bradbury as well as teachers Martin Goldberg and Gareth Williams, who both secretly filmed children.

Williams, from Cardiff, is now serving a five-year jail term for child sex offences, but Goldberg was found dead a day after police first contacted him.