NCA forced to withdraw ‘BBC trick’ claims

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has been forced to withdraw claims that BBC reporters had tricked their way into a Malaysian children’s home to interview victims of sexual abuse. The organisation, dubbed the British FBI, had claimed that traumatised youngsters were lured with false offers of counselling before being captured on film. It was even suggested the broadcaster may have committed a criminal offence while out filming in preparation for the sentence of one of Britain’s worst paedophiles, Richard Huckle,…