5 d. ago Cooper orders ‘crackdown’ on suspected illegal working for delivery apps

Officers will carry out checks in hotspots across the country where they suspect asylum seekers are working as delivery riders without permission.

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5 d. ago Sister fights to save vulnerable British teen accused of smuggling kilo of meth to Japan

Sean Stephenson, 18, has been detained in Japan after allegedly being caught with over a kilo of meth - but his family insist he was groomed and coerced by British gang members

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6 d. ago Greater Manchester police investigating over 1,000 grooming gang suspects

Inspectorate finds force has made ‘significant improvements’ in how it treats victims of sexual exploitationGreater Manchester police are investigating more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects, as a new report found the force was “trying to provide a better service to those who have experienced sexual exploitation”.The force has made “significant improvements” in how it investigates grooming gangs and other types of child sexual abuse offences, according to the report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Andy Burnham issues statement on his grooming gang review after he's forced to miss press conference

The reports found that Greater Manchester Police has made 'significant improvements', but still faces some issues in tackling child sexual exploitation

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6 d. ago Greater Manchester Police investigating 1,000 grooming gang suspects, watchdog says

Andy Burnham said ‘never again will any child here be labelled or dismissed’ after a report found significant improvements in the force’s response to grooming gangs

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6 d. ago Police force investigating more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects

Watchdog says Greater Manchester Police has made ‘significant improvements’ following years of failure.

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7 d. ago Revealed: more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects investigated by one of Britain's largest police forces in 59 separate abuse probes

Over 300 police officers in Greater Manchester alone have been conducting live inquiries into whether 714 victims were preyed upon, it says.

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8 d. ago Grooming gangs 'are using a worrying new tactic to target young girls'

Marcus Johnstone, from Warrington, has represented scores of clients accused of involvement in gang-based grooming and has several cases underway.

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9 d. ago I've spent my legal career defending grooming gang suspects. Now they are accused of using a different tactic to target young girls

Marcus Johnstone, from Warrington, has represented scores of clients accused of involvement in gang-based grooming and has several cases underway.

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1 week ago Revealed: Notorious Rochdale grooming gang paedophile builds new house in Pakistan village while getting £285k taxpayer handout to fight deportation battle

Furious neighbours of Abdul Rauf in Rochdale say they are terrified to let their children out of sight after the 55-year-old was released having served just two-and-a-half years in prison.

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1 week ago 'Utter outage' as two Rochdale grooming gang members remain in town 13 years after being told they would be deported

Adil Khan, 54, and Abdul Rauf, 55, are said to remain in the town

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2 w. ago Neighbours' fury as Rochdale grooming gang leader throws parties in house fitted with police panic alarm after using legal loophole to dodge deportation

The convicted paedophile, 55, was one of nine men jailed in 2012 for raping and trafficking vulnerable girls across northern England in a case that shocked the country.

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2 w. ago Telford grooming beast must stay in prison for raping schoolgirl, Justice Sec orders

Shahmeel Khan's victim - a teenager at the time she was raped - welcomes the decision to keep him locked up, 14 years after he was jailed in a huge Telford grooming gang investigation

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2 w. ago Grooming gang survivors make plea to ‘put politics aside’ ahead of new inquiry

Exclusive: Telford survivors say people are ‘exploiting the exploited’ and push for women to shape investigationThe political “tug-of-war with vulnerable women” abused by grooming gangs must stop ahead of a new national inquiry into the crimes, survivors have told the Guardian.Holly Archer and Scarlett Jones, two survivors who played a key role in a “gold-standard” local inquiry into the crime in Telford, have urged politicians and those without experience of abuse to allow women to shape the investigation. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago JENNI MURRAY: Those paid to protect children must stop being scared of racism accusations and tell us what they know

When I encounter horror stories about the grooming gang scandal - and how the young rape victims were accused by police of being prostitutes - my blood boils.

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3 w. ago Televise grooming gang inquiry given public interest, Labour peer urges

Muslim Labour peer Baroness Hazarika apologised for the crimes carried out by ‘wicked, wicked men’.

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3 w. ago Labour MP who was groomed as teenager shares powerful message over Tory 'point scoring'

Natalie Fleet delivered a powerful message to Kemi Badenoch as she said 'I do not know how she dare' after the Tory leader claimed victory when a national inquiry into the grooming gang scandal was announced

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3 w. ago What the national grooming gang inquiry means for Oldham's local investigation

The government will need to discuss with the council how to proceed

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3 w. ago Wales' First Minister says 'lessons need to be learned' over grooming gang abuse

The Conservative group leader in Wales said sexual exploitation of children had been 'happening right under our noses here in Wales'

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3 w. ago Labour's lack of control over illegal immigration 'risks fuelling new grooming gang crisis' as report says non

Chris Philp said abuse of teenage girls was a 'border security issue' after a damning report said foreign nationals are involved in a 'significant proportion' of ongoing police investigations.

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