1/ ⚠️ This thread is graphic and detailed. It contains descriptions of child rape, torture and institutional cover-up.
It is also entirely documented and sourced.
It will tell you what has been done to girls in this country, why it was allowed to continue, and why today's inquiry is not enough.

PLEASE read it all. You need to read it all. 💾🧵

#RapeGangs #GroomingGangs #OpenJusticeUK #Justice #RapeGangInquiry 2/ They're calling it a grooming gang inquiry.
Let's be clear. Grooming was the process.
What came after was rape.
Systematic, repeated, organised rape of children.
Not grooming. Rape.
Today the government launched its rape gang inquiry. Three years. March 2029.

I’m a former CID detective.

I spent 21 years inside the British criminal justice system.

And I’m done staying quiet.

A thread. 🧵 I investigated serious crime. Domestic abuse.
Sexual offences.
Murders and attempts.
Stranger rapes.
Paedophile cases.

The kinds of cases that stay with you long after the file is closed.

Those years taught me something most people never see.

How the system really works. And how often it fails. 🧵

On Monday this government voted to let a single judge — no jury — decide , amongst many other crimes , sexual assault cases involving children.

I’m a retired detective.

I built those cases.

Here’s what they’re not telling you. 🧵 304 MPs voted to scrap your right to a jury trial.
203 voted against.
90 of Labour’s own MPs abstained.
Ninety. His own side couldn’t bring themselves to support it. 🧵 2/10