The Manchester Evening News has published a second exposé on social media deviant DJE Media, otherwise known as Curtis Arnold and Daniel James Edwards.
I am again grateful to readers for bringing this to my attention.
You can read the latest piece by journalist Stephen Topping here (archived copy).
Regular readers will no doubt be aware that the MEN first broke news of Arnold's sexual harm prevention order on 17th December 2025. Under the front page headline "The sex offender pointing a camera in your face" the paper finally confirmed, loudly and clearly, his previous convictions for voyeurism and making an indecent image of a child. Please refer to my earlier article for the full background on those convictions.
Rumours of Arnold's sordid past had been circulating online ever since the former hairdresser lied his way past police officers in order to film the recovery of Nicola Bulley's body from the River Wyre. At the same time as Nicola's family were overcome by grief, Arnold uploaded his macabre footage to YouTube and later boasted about making £900 from it.
It now transpires that shortly after those tragic events of 19th February 2023, with the media noose now tightening around Arnold's neck, the 36-year-old attended the offices of two national newspapers to shamelessly deny past criminality and tell them what a "good egg" he really was.
Make no mistake that lying comes as second nature to Curtis Arnold. It comes as naturally to him as swimming does to a fish. He is not bothered about who he lies to, just as long as it somehow works in his favour.
He's as comfortable lying to his YouTube flock and he is to police officers investigating his crimes. His previous convictions for fraud, perverting the course of justice and burglary paint a picture of a man who could not lie straight in bed at night.
Anyhow, back to the new MEN story. According to journalist Topping, Arnold is now subject to a suspended sentence order having been convicted of trespassing at the Prime Minister's country retreat, Chequers.
In a now deleted YouTube confession video, Arnold said that he'd visited the Buckinghamshire estate with the intention of making a video. I watched the short-lived video at the time it was published, but as it is now deleted I am going to have to paraphrase Arnold's comments in it.
According to him, he knew that Chequers was "something to do with the Government", but didn't realise its significance at the time (undoubtedly another of his lies, in case you hadn't spotted). By his own admission he saw signs warning that trespass there was a criminal offence, but decided he was going to have a wander down the driveway anyway. He said he could see a barrier a short way down the hedge-lined driveway, so his intention was to go to barrier and ask if he could film anywhere on the estate.
He didn't get as far as the barrier before several armed police officers "jumped out from nowhere". The officer who took the lead was quite amiable, telling Arnold that he shouldn't be there and asking him to turn around and head back to the public road.
On this occasion, very unusually, the penny dropped with Arnold that he should actually comply with the officer's request instead of trying to outsmart him. He turned around and started walking back up the driveway. Only a few steps into his journey a second officer, who was not quite as amiable as the first, decided to arrest him.
The Chequers incident happened on 28th February 2025. According to the MEN, he was convicted of an offence under section 128 of the Serious Organised Crime Act 2005 and was sentenced to 4 months' custody suspended for 2 years.
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Who wrote this ? A 12 year old ?
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