Ex-MP Ivor Caplin out on bail — journalist who exposed him on trial

Retired Brighton-based journalist Greg Hadfield is scheduled to face trial this month for exposing an obscene X post by right-wing former Labour MP Ivor Caplin, 67 — while Caplin has again been granted bail after being arrested in a paedophile sting operation.

Ivor Caplin

Caplin is a notorious Israel supporter, former chair of the so-called ‘Jewish Labour Movement’ (JLM) revived in order to fight Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party. The former Blair defence minister has again been given extension to his bail. He has still not been charged, despite allegedly going to meet (what he thought was) the child and planning to take him somewhere after online discussions about sex:

Despite the arrest, Caplin does not appear to have been suspended by the Labour Party. National ‘mainstream’ media appear to have ignored it, with the right-wing Jewish Chronicle even deleting the report on his arrest that it initially published.

Greg Hadfield

Hadfield, a retired news editor of the Sunday Times, who has written extensively on his personal website about the ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam in which JLM played a leading role, is facing a charge of an offence: “sending by public communication network offensive/indecent/obscene/menacing message/matter” under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 for posting a screenshot on X last year showing an example of the explicit gay pornography with which Caplin peppered his (since-deleted) X account alongside posts supporting right-wing Labour.

In the post accompanying the screenshot, Hadfield said that he was sure that another local right-winger “has known about @ivorcaplin’s ‘likes’ – and likes – for a very long time. Why didn’t she say something?” X would usually blur out explicit images unless a user has set to bypass the censorship. He was then interviewed under caution about a complaint from the other right-winger that his post was harassing her. After the CPS formally charged him, he applied for the court case to be halted but was denied. The case will be heard at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on 17-18 November and Hadfield’s donation page for his legal costs is still open.

Caplin is not the only such scandal among the pro-Israel Labour right. In 2023, Hackney right-winger Thomas Dewey was sentenced to just 150 hours community service despite admitting possessing pictures of child rape including torture and bestiality. Keir Starmer’s Labour allowed Dewey to stand as a candidate in local elections even after his arrest, locked Hackney women members out of the party’s systems to prevent them discussing the issue and threatened members with disciplinary sanctions if they tried to ask questions.

Kier Starmer

During Starmer’s tenure as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the CPS also decided not to prosecute serial child rapist Jimmy Savile — and destroyed its records of who was involved in the decision.

Starmer repeatedly covered up Jewish party staff whistleblower Elaina Cohen’s allegations of ‘sadistic’ and ‘criminal’ abuse, including sexual abuse, of vulnerable domestic violence victims by another party staffer. His appalling record toward women also includes sheltering two alleged sex pests in his Shadow Cabinet, taking no action against disgraced MP Chris Matheson after he was placed under investigation and ultimately found guilty by Parliament of sexual harassment. Matheson instead resigned after the finding.

As opposition leader, Starmer also welcomed Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP Neil Coyle back into the party last year, despite Parliament finding Coyle guilty of at least one count of sexual harassment and of making racist remarks – and last week blocked demands for the abuse inquiry that would have put his time as head of the CPS under scrutiny and disclosure.

You can donate to Greg Hadfield’s crowdfunder here.

Featured image via Jewish Labour Movement