Norris arrested over rape, paedophilia allegations – latest right-wing Labour figure linked to sex crimes

Norris not yet convicted of any crime, but becomes latest Labour right-winger accused or found guilty of sex offences

Dan Norris, the Starmeroid MP for North-east Somerset MP Dan Norris has been suspended by Labour after his arrest on suspicion of rape, child sex offences, child abduction and misconduct in a public office.

Ironically, Norris’s Wikipedia entry still says that he has “a particular interest in child safety and regularly campaigns against child sexual abuse, having co-written a free booklet on its prevention”. Norris is also still West of England mayor – in 2020, the party banned Labour members in Bath from donating money to foodbanks and the homeless to keep the funds for Norris’s election campaign.

Norris becomes the latest Labour right-winger to be linked to sex crimes. In January, the so-called Jewish Labour Movement’s former chair Ivor Caplin was arrested on suspicion of child sex offences after falling for a ‘sting’ set up by an anti-paedophile group and being filmed turning up for what he thought was a meeting with an underage boy. Just last month, Sam Gould – a Redbridge Labour councillor who also worked for Starmer’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting, another JLM supporter – was convicted of exposing himself to a 13yo girl and then pursuing her.

Not all alleged culprits have ended up facing criminal charges. Israel lobbyist John Woodcock quit the party rather than face investigation over sex-pest allegations; fellow right-winger and Bermondsey MP Neil Coyle was welcomed back into the party by Keir Starmer despite being found by Labour to have sexually harassed a young woman.

The party dismissed ‘serious’ sexual assault allegations against then right-wing Redbridge Council leader Jas Athwal – against the advice of Labour’s own barrister – and abused the selection process to ensure Athwal was selected to stand, and eventually be elected, as the MP for Ilford South.

Former MP Chris Matheson resigned from Parliament after being found guilty of sexual harassment, but party leader Keir Starmer never suspended him while under investigation and was accused of continuing to shelter at least two alleged sex pests on his front bench, to deafening silence from the ‘mainstream’ media.

And in 2023 Thomas Dewey, at the time an organiser for right-wing pressure group Labour First, was convicted for possession of the most serious and sadistic child-rape images, yet was sentenced to only 150 hours of community service. Labour had allowed him to stand for election as a councillor in Hackney, despite knowing of his arrest.

Others have escaped being named, as the party covered for them and in some cases had women sign non-disclosure agreements or pressured them into silence. In 2023, a female front-bench MP reported a then-shadow minister on Starmer’s front bench to the Met Police alleging sexual assault. No action appears ever to have been taken. At the same time, Starmer’s party was exposed letting off a sex-pest senior party staffer, who kept his job with a final warning.

And Keir Starmer – who ran the Crown Prosecution Service when it decided not to prosecute serial rapist Jimmy Savile (and later destroyed records about his involvement in the decision) – covered up whistleblower Elaina Cohen’s allegations, repeatedly ignoring her warnings that the staffer and alleged girlfriend of right-wing Labour then-MP Khalid Mahmood was engaged in the ‘sadistic’ and ‘criminal’ abuse and sexual exploitation of vulnerable Muslim women escaping domestic violence. Numerous other allegations have been quietly covered up and ‘disappeared’.

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