Evening Briefing Friday 13th November

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0:37Welcome to the Times Radio evening news briefing on Friday the 13th of November. Police have opened an investigation into allegations of non-recent serious sexual offences allegedly involving David Walliams. Earlier this week a High Court judge rejected a plea by the 55-year-old entertainer who was trying to stop The Guardian and ITN from naming him. Times Radio's Olly Cole is following the story. The allegations the police are looking into are separate from those reported by ITV and The Guardian earlier this week. But officers, as part of that investigation, are proactively reviewing what was found in the investigation and that reporting to establish whether there's any evidence of any other offences to come forward.

1:22Lawyers for David Walliams say he never engaged in grooming young women and the allegations of serious criminal conduct are false. A suspected Hamas terrorist has been found guilty of a knife attack on a bailiff outside his home in Birmingham. Mohammed Al-Fati is reported to be the son of a senior Hamas official and spent time as a bodyguard for Ishmael Hanayi, a former Hamas leader. Born in Germany, he was smuggled into the UK in the back of a lorry in 2014. Home Affairs commentator Danny Shaw says he was allowed to stay here shortly afterwards. Asylum in 2015, settlement in 2020 and then citizenship in the following year or the year after that.

2:01And that was all, by the way, under a Conservative government. Theresa May was Home Secretary when he was granted asylum, Priti Patel, when he was given settlement. The Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, has accused the Housing Secretary of abusing her power. Angela Rayner used emergency powers to push through plans to house 1 ,200 male migrants at a former RAF base in Oxfordshire. The leader of Piddington Parish Council says the government will be responsible if any asylum seekers commit crimes in the village. Here's Reform UK's Home Affairs spokesman Zia Youssef. What is happening here is absolutely a national disgrace.

2:37This has become ground zero for the invasion of this great country. The fact that the government is dumping 1 ,200 illegal migrant men, and yes, they are all going to be men. That's not speculation. It's literally on the government's website, is utterly extraordinary. into a village of 350 people, the result of which will be that the women and girls of Piddington are going to be outnumbered eight to one. And the wife of the former DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years. Eleanor Donaldson was found to have aided her husband's offending following a trial of the facts.

3:14He was sentenced to 15 years after being found guilty of 18 child sex offences, including rape. You can follow The Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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