Police refer Westminster ‘honeytrap’ to prosecutors

The Metropolitan Police have handed particulars of their investigation into the Westminster “honeytrap” to prosecutors for a call, the BBC understands.

In June, police arrested a person in his mid-20s in Islington on suspicion of offences underneath the On-line Security Act and harassment. The suspect stays underneath investigation.

Earlier this 12 months a string of males, principally working in politics, reported receiving flirtatious WhatsApp messages from senders named “Charlie” or “Abi” typically buying and selling express pictures.

William Wragg, then an MP, resigned the Conservative whip after saying that he gave the telephone numbers of fellow MPs to a person he met on a courting app as a result of he was “scared”.

Labour suspended the person, who had been a celebration member, after studying of his arrest.

Different individuals focused embody the then Conservative MP for Bosworth, Luke Evans, who stated he had contacted the police after turning into “a sufferer of cyber-flashing and malicious communications”.

In April the Met introduced it was investigating studies of unsolicited messages being despatched to MPs and others.