Shocking moment paedophile is caught with young girl in seedy hotel room as cops storm in after harrowing 999 call
Shocking moment paedophile is caught with young girl in seedy hotel room as cops storm in after harrowing 999 call
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SHOCKING footage shows the moment cops caught a paedophile with a young teenage girl in a seedy hotel room. Police officers stormed the hotel in Manchester after receiving a harrowing emergency call from a staff member. Video captured on bodycam shows a Greater Manchester Police officer banging heavily on the door.
![[Police officer investigating a hotel room where child sexual abuse occurred.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/arresttttt.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He is heard saying: "Police open the door, I'm going to open it.". The 999 call was made by a concerned hotel worker who reported that a 14-year-old girl was in a room with an "over-age man". In the audio of the emergency call, it can be heard that the hotel was notified by two women from a care home about the disgusting crime.
![[Blurred image of a hotel room.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/copss.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Once the man eventually opens the door, cops can be heard asking the paedophile why he "didn't answer the door" straightaway. Dressed in a black t-shirt, the sick man is then escorted outside before being formally arrested by police. The footage ends with the man sitting in a police car as the reason for his arrest is read out.
![[Police officer arresting someone near a bus.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/b2e05feb-5927-4c09-a176-05bf09bac0f7.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Sergeant Ian Haselden, from Greater Manchester Police, conducts operations during which officers pretend to be an abuser and travel to a hotel with a child acting as a victim. They then attempt to book a room while displaying signs of suspicious behaviour.
He said: "We'd rather they be safe than sorry, because this is an extremely serious crime and we don't want them to worry about making the wrong call. "If hotels are suspicious the gold standard response is to call the police.". It comes after new data came to light revealing that police have received hundreds of reports of child sexual abuse in hotels.
