Predator Hunters launches its newsroom

Our first major story was a murder. We published details the police had not, and afterwards officers came to us asking for our sources. We protected them, as we always will. That is what we are built on.

More followed. In 2022 we reported that a social club in Derbyshire was selling alcohol to children. We have covered bailiffs and arrests at a local hospital, and decisions by a local council that left residents without homes. We break serious local news of all kinds, and since 2020 we have offered rewards for information that helps catch the people behind serious crimes.

Today we are opening our newsroom properly.

From here we will break local news of all kinds, not only the headline crimes. We will report concluded cases from the public court record. We are building a public database so a community can look up offenders who have been convicted, by name, area and offence. And where information can help bring someone to justice, we will keep appealing for it, with a reward.

Some things will never change. We protect our sources. We keep them anonymous, and we only act on what we can stand up. As a rule we do not name anyone before they are charged, unless there is a strong public interest and we can confirm it. On the cases we cover, we stick to the record.

We hold ourselves to a published standard, not a promise. We run a documented complaints procedure, we correct mistakes openly and keep both the original and the correction on the record, and we are working towards registration with IMPRESS, the UK's approved press regulator. All of it is set out on our Standards page, and if you think we have got something wrong, we want to hear it and we will put it right.

We were limited in what we could do in 2025. In 2026 this became a core part of who we are. We are independent and self-funded, and we work independently of any police force. If you have a story, information, or want to support the work, get in touch. If a child is in immediate danger, call 999.