A GROUP that claims more than 1.2 million children have gone missing in Banbury as part of a 'government conspiracy' has been refused charitable status.

The Banbury Children's Foundation had applied to the Charity Commission to gain charitable status after it was set up to investigate a 'nationwide trafficking operation'.

It was initially rejected but appealed to the charity tribunal who also refused the application.

Despite Banbury having a population of 46,853, the charity's founder Tobias Yeats, claimed he 'had seen' 1.2 million children go missing in the area over a five month period.

In the tribunal papers, he stated that: "The trafficking is achieved by the use of particular software in mobile telephony networks that emit messages or sounds in a particular language that can be heard by the public at large, but which is particularly appealing to teenagers and young adults."

Children are also removed at birth from their mothers, according to Mr Yeats.

He believes the government is 'complicit' in the process and the police are prevented, by law, from investigating or stopping it.

But Mr Yeats did not produce any evidence to the tribunal, other than his own account, to show that this trafficking was taking place.

He produced a letter from the Prince of Wales and Red Bull Racing that, he said, showed support but the judge dismissed these as 'no more than' standard letters acknowledging correspondence, with no indication of support.

The tribunal concluded the foundation's purposes would not be 'exclusively charitable' and not for the 'public benefit'.