'Time to deliver justice for rape gang survivors'

THOUSANDS of victims of the grooming gang scandal have waited far too long for justice. We have no more time to waste in getting at the truth about the industrial-scale rape of British girls by gangs of largely Pakistani Muslim men.

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Having first voted down a national inquiry and then reluctantly agreed to set one up, Keir Starmer's Labour government has dithered, delayed and done nothing to make it work.

Last week Ellie-Ann Reynolds, a survivor of grooming gangs who resigned from the inquiry panel, told me that this shambles of a government inquiry is “less about the truth and more about a cover-up”. Enough is enough. I and the other

Crime Agency-led review, of which 236 are being examined as a priority because they involve allegations of rape. NCA deputy director Nigel Leary said initial findings suggested there were mistakes, adding: “We've seen in those cases what appears to be potentially human error”.

But Rotherham survivor Sammy Woodhouse blasted the claim, saying: “It was not human error that hundreds of thousands of children in the UK were groomed, abused, raped, tortured, trafficked and murdered - while people in power were complicit, blamed and ignored the victims, criminalised them, intimidated them, drugged them, and even removed their children to give them to the men who raped them and then fined or arrested their parents for trying to stop it. They're complicit and should be criminally charged”.