Earlier this week, Rishi Sunak said that his government would create a police task force to tackle gangs that groomed children for sexual abuse, and claimed that victims have been ignored because of political correctness. Suella Braverman’s rhetoric has been even more extreme. Over the weekend the Home Secretary suggested to the BBC that gangs of rapists were “overwhelmingly” made up of British-Pakistani males.
I was the chief prosecutor who led the teams that brought, among others, the Rochdale grooming gang to justice in 2012 for the abuse of up to 47 young girls. I then led the national response on the way that we tackle all such localised grooming and child sexual abuse in England and Wales.
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