1. A 2013 report from the Home Affairs Committee faulted the CPS and said that "unlike many other official agencies implicated in this issue," the CPS "readily admitted that victims had been let down by them and have attempted both to discover the cause of this systemic failure to improve the way things are done so as to avoid a repetition of such events."
But that same report praised Starmer for trying to "improve the treatment of victims of sexual assault within the criminal justice system throughout his term as Director of Public Prosecution."
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A number of online sources including Musk have claimed that a Home Office mail/document/memo sent in 2008 “suggested the girls… had made ‘informed choices’." The quote comes from a 2018 interview with a former senior prosecutor – not Sir Keir – who was discussing the Home Office guidance. That prosecutor has since said this was the incorrect way to interpret the guidance.
2. Jan 4, 2025
Nazir Afzal, when he was chief crown prosecutor for North West England, told the BBC that, in 2008, the Home Office under Gordon Brown’s administration sent a circular email to all police forces calling on them not to investigate the sexual exploitation of young girls. In 2011, the then home secretary Jack Straw let the cat out of the bag when he said that white girls were “seen as easy meat” by Pakistani rapists. Straw was swiftly shut down.
And look what happened to Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham. In 2017, Champion was forced to resign from her position as shadow women and equalities minister over what she called her “extremely poor choice of words” in an article she wrote for The Sun. The piece came after 17 men and one woman were found guilty of committing nearly 100 offences, including rape, against vulnerable women and girls in Newcastle. Champion’s article began: “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls. There. I said it. Does that make me a racist? Or am I just prepared to call out this horrifying problem for what it is?”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/05/grooming-gangs-scandal-labour-yvette-cooper-keir-starmer/
This entire blog could be in on the grooming of young girls but just a few observations that struck me when I had the opportunity to post.
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