Scotland Yard is urgently reviewing around 30 sex cases due to go to trial in the UK after the collapse of two rape prosecutions in the past week.

Ten seemingly respectable people - including six women - subjected young children to sexual and physical abuse over more than a decade, prosecutors have told a British court.

A children’s doctor who abused 18 boys in his care has been jailed for 22 years after a judge described him as the worst paedophile he had ever seen.