Former Labour staffer charged with sexual offence

Former Labour staffer and former Stevenage councillor Conor McGrath has been charged with “taking or making indecent images of a child”. McGrath, who used to work for Israel-funded MP Kevin Bonavia, was arrested after a ten-month probe by Herts Police.

McGrath appears to have been publicly quiet about Israel. But it’s unthinkable that Bonavia would have employed an anti-Zionist staffer. He therefore becomes the latest in a seemingly endless string of right-wing Labour figures linked to Israel who have been convicted or accused of child sex offences.

Starmer’s record as Labour leader is an appalling continuation of the impunity of celebrity paedophiles when he ran the CPS. He was hit in early February 2025 by a scandal over his peerage for former adviser Matthew Doyle despite knowing Doyle had campaigned for the election of a Scottish Labour paedophile. This in turn followed the scandal of the various appointments given to the disgraced Peter Mandelson despite his ardent fandom toward serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein — to whom he also leaked confidential state and financial information.

The iceberg

But those cases are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Starmer’s right-wing, pro-Israel faction is riddled with paedophiles:

• ‘Friend of Israel’ Liron Velleman was convicted of repeated sex crimes against a 13-year-old girl.
• In January 2025, former Blair minister Ivor Caplin was arrested in a sting operation as he allegedly attempted to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex. Local police went after local left-winger Greg Hadfield for exposing the explicit content Caplin posted on his X feed — Hadfield defeated the ‘vexatious’ charge in November 2025. However, no charges have yet been brought against Caplin and a court did not impose bail conditions after his initial bail expired.
• Hackney councillor Tom Dewey, an organiser in pro-Israel group ‘Labour First’, admitted possession of the most serious category of child rape images in 2023. The party knew of his arrest when it allowed him to stand for election. After his conviction, it blocked local women members from its systems to prevent them discussing the case.
• In March 2025 Sam Gould, another JLM activist who worked for Starmer’s health secretary Wes Streeting, quit as a Redbridge councillor after being convicted on two separate counts of indecent exposure to a 13-year-old girl.
•  The following month Dan Norris MP, an ally of Keir Starmer, was arrested over allegations of rape, child sex offences and child abduction.  Avon and Somerset Police says its investigation is still ongoing.
•  The same Dan Norris was arrested again for allegations of rape and sexual assault.

This issue is so endemic to the Zionist Labour right that it almost looks like a factional entry requirement to the party’s friends of genocide club.

Featured image via the Canary