Overview
- Cheshire Police said evidential searches at Webb House have finished and the property was returned to residents, with officers keeping a visible presence.
- The ten people arrested were released on conditional bail that bars them from returning to the site.
- The group’s leader, Abdullah Hashem, plus four others are under civil orders that block entry to Crewe, ban contact with the alleged victim, restrict unsupervised contact with children, and require surrender of passports.
- The investigation focuses on alleged sexual abuse, forced marriage and modern slavery against one woman in 2023 when she was a member of the group.
- Raids that involved about 500 officers on Wednesday April 29 targeted Webb House and two other Crewe addresses, and 25 people now face public-order charges from the disturbance.