Swinney: We're open to grooming gangs probe

Scotland could follow England with national inquiry after victim's plea

- BY PAUL HUTCHEON

JOHN Swinney is “open” to a grooming gangs inquiry after a victim pleaded with him to launch an investigation.

The First Minister hinted at a national probe after the Record revealed the case of a 13-year-old abused while she was in care.

We told how “Taylor”, not her real name, claimed she had been groomed by a gang of up to 10 men in Glasgow around 2013.

She is now in her 20s and wrote to the First Minister urging a national investigation.