Reform councillor is filmed offering 'Sunday morning Rose Garden executions' of grooming gang members in ITV undercover sting

From the Newshound archive · first published 18 October 2026.

Councillor Adam Parkins told the undercover reporter: "Give me a f*'ing pistol and I'll walk behind them and go 'boom, boom, boom'." He also demanded "the most brutal f'*ing punishments" for the gangs and the public bodies he said ignored them. Nigel Farage was caught joking about "banter" from his Dulwich College days. 'Undercover: A Year in Reform' airs on ITV on Sunday evening.

Reform says everyone featured in the programme is under investigation, with some suspended.

Alan Feeney quit all council seats after being filmed calling Asian homeowners 'parasites'.

Defector Sarah Cooper-Lesadd likened Reform's response to criticism to 'an abuser'; Reform called her claims 'fabrications'.