Former Labour MP Ivor Caplin, aged 66, was arrested in Brighton by police following a sting operation by citizen paedophile hunters. He is suspected of engaging in online sexual communications with a 15-year-old boy. Caplin, who was recently suspended from the Labour Party, remains in custody.
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