An IOPC whistleblower has told @thetimes that the investigation into Rotherham abuse gang failures “barely scratched the surface” and deliberately avoided senior police officers.

The probe examined 47 officers. None lost their jobs. The most severe sanction? A written warning. @thetimes Op Linden received a lot of criticism when published in 2022. Survivors have told me it's not worth the paper it's printed on.

But now a whistleblower claims its standards were poor and there was “no desire” to uncover the reasons behind the failings.

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BREAKING @GBNEWS: 364 MPs vote against an independent national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal across Britain @GBNEWS From @MaggieOliverUK: "I expected it Charlie. You know my thoughts."

An abuse gang whistleblower said: "I'm fuming."

Jess Phillips has expressed anger tonight at the slow response to child abuse inquiries.

Oldham Council wrote to her in July asking for a government inquiry. GB News revealed that she wrote back — saying no — almost four months later.

Will she apologise to Oldham survivors? In her interview with @AnushkaAsthana, Jess Phillips confirms she has yet to speak to any Oldham survivors.

Yet she still was confident enough to deny their request for a government-led inquiry.

How can you make that decision without speaking to the victims?

EXCLUSIVE: A victim of abuse gangs in Oldham was forced to take emergency contraception by a male police officer after she reported her abuse, @GBNEWS can reveal. In a police complaint seen exclusively by GB News, it is said that the officer “had the pill in his hand and told her she had to take it.”

Sam, who was 12-years-old when she was gang raped, has shared her horrifying story with us.

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EXCLUSIVE: Civil servants delayed compensation plans for grooming gang victims.

Several government sources told @GBNEWS that attempts to raise the issue were “pushed into the long grass” by senior officials Kemi Badenoch told me that payment is ‘the least victims are entitled to’ after delays were exposed.

The govt has been contacted for comment.

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This conversation sparked by the abuse gangs scandal is spiralling into political gossip.

Let's bring it back to what matters: the survivors and getting the action they need.

So far, the government’s response to the demand for a national public inquiry has been to point to the IICSA report.

Bashing Elon Musk's amplification of calls for a public inquiry, Wes Streeting said that we’ve already had a report into grooming gangs so we don’t need another.

But what did the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse actually find out about grooming gangs?

In this thread I'll go through why many victims and campaigners think the report didn't do enough on the gangs. Published in 2022 after seven years, IICSA had a broad brief, which included all forms of exploitation.

Grooming gangs were lumped in with other abuse networks, while other subjects like online abuse, the Catholic Church, and care homes got their own investigation.

REVEALED @GBNEWS: Keir Starmer ignored a Rotherham whistleblower's bullying complaint after she exposed child abuse and Labour corruption @GBNEWS GB News has seen correspondence between a whistleblower and Sir Keir's office in 2020, when he was the leader of the opposition.

He was told about Jayne Senior being bullied and facing a witch hunt after she helped to expose the Rotherham atrocity.

Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is attracting attention. It’s happened before, but now it seems different.

I’ve dedicated most of my career in journalism to covering it. Because it’s the most appalling atrocity in modern British history.

In this thread, I’ll tell you what I know about the crisis, what I’ve uncovered, and what is yet to be revealed… When did it start?

Reports of gangs of men abusing children via on-street grooming go back as far as the 1970s.

But it first came to major prominence after Labour MP Ann Cryer raised concerns about the targeting of young girls by “Asian men” outside school gates.

It was 2003. She was accused of racism by many in her own party and had to install a panic alarm. Cryer was vilified for trying to support girls facing appalling abuse by predominantly Pakistani men. She was the first to endure this treatment, but by no means the last.

Exclusive: Labour has rejected Oldham Council's request for a government inquiry into grooming gangs.

GB News has seen a letter from Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips urging the council to organise their own inquiry. Jess Phillips said that she understands "the strength of feeling" but rejected calls for a government-led review.

She also apologised for the delay in responding to two letters from the council's executive.

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Derek Heggie has pleaded guilty to making racially aggravated comments.

But what did he post?

In videos referring to Muslims, Heggie said "young white girls are being raped by these grooming gangs"

The prosecution said his comments were "inflammatory" Carlisle Crown Court heard that his comments about grooming gangs were made for the "purpose of causing distress or anxiety."

The "grossly offensive comments" could see him imprisoned.

He was remanded into custody by a judge today.

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2 months after seeing her abusers jailed, a Rotherham survivor returns to court to see their sentences reduced by years after an error.

At court, the rapists' relatives mock her and allegedly threaten violence.

It sounds like a crazy nightmare, but it all happened this week. EXCL @GBNEWS: Rotherham survivor in court confrontation after grooming gang rapists have sentences reduced by several years after admin error

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Tommy Robinson has admitted two contempt of court claims by repeating false allegations against a Syrian schoolboy, who successfully sued him in 2021.

Robinson smiled towards his supporters in the public gallery as he entered the dock in a grey suit at Woolwich Crown Court. The judge told the court that he had watched the “Silenced” film that contains the allegations, which remains on Tommy Robinson’s X feed and has some 55 million views.

The barrister for the solicitor general said the film had been republished widely, including by Andrew Tate.

Sara Sharif had dozens of injuries - old and new - when her body was found.

Jurors are hearing from a pathologist who assessed the 10-year-old. Dr Cary found a gaping head wound, bruising, scarring.

He has been speaking for 2 hours. We are on injury 62. His evidence continues. Sara Sharif had at least 71 new injuries when her body was found, jurors have been told.

That figures excludes the dozens of scars and internal wounds, which are now being detailed at the Old Bailey.

They include bruises to her lungs, skeletal injuries, and brain haemorrhages.

Reform has sent a letter to the Home Secretary, threatening a private criminal prosecution over the Manchester Airport incident in late July, where several police officers were injured after an altercation with some men.

Reform allege that it is an example of two tier policing.
Reform claims that a “very senior person” in Greater Manchester Police made a deliberate decision not to release the full CCTV footage of the incident, where a female officer suffered a broken nose and others were hospitalised.

The full footage was later leaked to a newspaper.

Exclusive @GBNEWS: A Black History Month video uploaded by Labour MP Dawn Butler includes a 'celebratory collage' of murderers and rapists The video includes pics of cop killer Assata Shakur and Nation of Islam figure Khalid Abdul Muhammad.

Shakur is one of the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists after she escaped custody.

Muhammad gave a speech where he called Jews the “bloodsuckers” of blacks.

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NEW @GBNEWS: “I am your karma” - Rotherham survivor powerfully confronts her abusers in courtroom statement ahead of sentencing

gbnews.com/news/rotherham… This was one of the most extraordinary and emotive experiences I’ve had as a journalist.

Seven convicted sex abusers sat silently in the dock - many looking to their families in the public gallery or glumly staring at the floor - as a survivor of the ‘harrowing’ ordeal they subjected their victims to stood up and told them that they had lost.

Speaking directly to them from the stand next to the judge, her victim impact statement detailed the appalling nature of her suffering.

She was forced to commit a sexual act aged 11, groomed at her primary school playground, raped at 12, her “childlike body” assaulted as she was plied with drink and drugs by a taxi driver.

In her stark testimony, she told the court how she had been made to take a virginity test aged 11. “You made it sound like it was a crime to be a virgin. That same day you sent me off and forced me to commit a sexual act. My innocence was stolen.”

The ‘dehumanising’ abuse led one of the victims to being raped by over 150 men by the time she was 16, having been trafficked cross the country.

The girls were abused in supermarket car parks, in cemeteries, even behind a nursery. In one shocking example, a girl had to escape from one of her rapist’s homes, climbing through a window after she was locked inside.

Some of the abusers looked towards the press gallery - where I was the only journalist present - instead of looking directly at the address from the survivor of their abuse. One man held eye contact with me for a few moments. Otherwise they looked anywhere but towards the woman telling them how they had not won, how she had beaten their abuse.

“You ruined my life but I won’t let you ruin my future. I’m a fighter and a survivor. You can’t and won’t ever take anything from me again.”

She closed her moving speech: “you stole my childhood, now I’m taking your freedom, I am your karma.”

Mohammed Amar, 42, Yasser Ajaibe, 39; Mohammed Zameer Sadiq, 49; Mohammed Siyab, 49; Abid Saddiq, 43; Tahir Yasin, 38 and Ramin Bari, 37 will be sentenced shortly.

The 17-year-old charged with 3 murders and 10 attempted murders in Southport is set to appear shortly at Liverpool Crown Court.

At Youth Court moments ago, the defendant smirked at us in the press gallery as he entered the dock. He cannot be named for legal reasons. He remained silent throughout.

He covered his face with his grey tracksuit during the five-minute hearing, occasionally lowering his jumper to reveal his eyes.

The alleged weapon was described in court as a curved kitchen knife.

His bail hearing is set to start shortly.

EXCL: Manchester child abuse review team resign after police ‘block’ access, whistleblower claims

@MaggieOliverUK told @GBNEWS that Gary Ridgway and Malcolm Newsam resigned after being “blocked” from accessing documents and speaking to some survivors

gbnews.com/news/mancheste… @MaggieOliverUK @GBNEWS GMCA said this allegation was “inaccurate.”

One of the reviewers confirmed they had resigned and that they gave "reasons for doing so in a resignation letter."

They said they would not share the letter and that they would not comment further on Maggie Oliver’s claims

EXCL @GBNEWS: Several Labour and Tory candidates have supported a 'Sikh Manifesto' by an organisation that called for a "Sikh homeland" through the "break-up of India and Pakistan"

gbnews.com/politics/uk-se… The Sikh Federation told me that the manifesto “makes clear Sikhs are no different on the big issues, but this supplements specific concerns of Sikhs.”

They added: “The only controversial points are calling out the Tories (Rishi Sunak) for always appeasing the Indian Govt and highlighting issues that will bother the Indian Govt.”

The federation accused Conservative politicians of “appalling xenophobic and unacceptable actions towards Sikhs” and the “deliberate demonisation of Sikhs to appease the Indian government.”

Despite this, leading Conservatives have supported the Sikh Manifesto.

Guy Opperman (Hexham) was photographed holding the document.

Theresa May was photographed with the manifesto alongside her replacement in Maidenhead, Dr Tania Mathias.

Caroline Nokes, the Tory candidate for Romsey and Southampton North, was also seen holding the manifesto on a visit.

Conservative campaigner @sam_bidwell said: "The Sikh Manifesto is a sectarian document that doesn't reflect our national interest. The rise in this kind of sectarian campaigning should concern us all."

EXCL @GBNEWS: At least four Tory candidates have signed a 'Hindu Manifesto' that demands easier immigration for Persons of Indian Origin and Hindu Priests, despite CCHQ immigration pledges

gbnews.com/politics/tory-… @GBNEWS Some Tories have slammed the document:

@sam_bidwell: "The Party should not be compromising on major policy issues to pander to sectarian campaigns."

@AmandeepBhogal: "Any pressure groups that push political aims by sectarian separatism serves only to further fringe elements"

BREAK: Seven men have been convicted for child sex abuse offences against two girls in Rotherham in the 2000s.

Mohammed Amar, 42, Mohammed Siyab, 44, Yasser Ajaib, 39, Mohammed Zameer Sadiq, 49, Abid Saddiq, 43, Tahir Yassin, 38, and Ramin Bari, 37 were all found guilty. The trial was the result of a five year investigation by the NCA.

The victims, who were aged between 11 and 16 at the time of the offences and were both in care, were groomed and often plied with alcohol or cannabis before being raped or assaulted.