Overview
- The alleged offences against 11 teenage girls date from 2022 to 2025 and follow an inquiry launched in November 2023 after concerns about one victim.
- All seven suspects were re-arrested in Bristol on Tuesday and are due before Bristol Magistrates’ Court today.
- Police have named five defendants and said two more cannot be identified for legal reasons, with charges ranging from rape to arranging or facilitating child sexual exploitation.
- Additional counts include making or distributing indecent images and supplying drugs such as ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine.
- Detectives describe a complex investigation with safeguarding in place; the CPS has warned against prejudicial reporting, police disclosed nationality and self-defined ethnicity under national guidance, and a public appeal page is open for information.