In February 2024 a dossier of evidence was submitted to the Metropolitan Police with a request to commence a criminal investigation into the incitement of genocide and crimes against humanity. The allegations were made in connection with individuals associated with the Telegraph Media Group Ltd, publishers of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. The dossier consisted of a 120 page document and 2559 items of supporting evidence.
The dossier provides detailed evidence that the Telegraph Media Group Ltd has incited the most serious crimes by relentless lobbying for the policies that drive climate breakdown, thereby causing mass death, mass suffering and beginning a process that will lead to the complete annihilation of several low-lying island states. The Telegraph Media Group Ltd has also taken a series of steps to encourage its readers to participate in the crimes.
Although the crime of deliberately contributing to climate breakdown is easy to understand, the legal concepts and evidence are complex. The legislation relating to incitement is in Article 25 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. This legislation is brought into UK jurisdiction by ICCA 2001.
There is an overwhelming public interest in making this evidence publicly available.
The Metropolitan Police refused to act on ICCA 2001, simply saying it had nothing more to add to the correspondence relating to CGAN’s first case against senior UK politicians. The Met Police did this despite knowing CGAN proved its case in July 2023. The final option for appeal is to go to the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, which we did on 16 August 2024. Despite several reminders MOPAC refused to reply.
It was only when CGAN approached all London Assembly Members that MOPAC felt it had to reply. It then falsely claimed that only the International Criminal Court had jurisdiction and CGAN should forward its case there. We wrote and explained the basis on which the ICC requires all signatory nations to introduce comparable domestic legislation and why MOPAC was wrong. There has been no reply.
On 21 October 2025 the case against the Telegraph Media Group Ltd was lodged with the ICC. An acknowledgement has been received. The ICC has been informed that the UK police and regulatory bodies will not comply with the UK’s obligations to the ICC. It has been suggested to the ICC that it should remind the UK police of their legal obligations.
