Taxi drivers with nick-names like Car Zero and Master Aziz, a pillar of Rochdale's Pakistani community known as Tiger and a Muslim preacher were . The three-part series tells the story of the victims of an infamous child grooming and sex trafficking scandal in Rochdale, and continues on Wednesday night. By then police were investigating allegations from another girl about on-street grooming in Heywood. To keep up with Rochdale news sign up to the MyRochdale newsletter here. On 9 May 2012, the Rochdale grooming trial reached its conclusion. [45] In particular they pointed out that the inquiry by the Office of the Children's Commissioner[33] found that, while a majority of victims were white and a majority of perpetrators were men of South Asian descent, there were many cases where "perpetrators and their victims were ethnically diverse. [16], The trial concluded in May 2012 with the nine convictions. In 2014 an inquiry led by MP Ann Coffey suggested sexual exploitation of children had become normal on some streets and estates in Greater Manchester. [28], Ann Cryer, Labour MP for Keighley, recalled in a BBC documentary filmed in 2012 that she had worked with the families of the victims involved, and had been "round at the police station virtually every week" and was "begging" both the police and social services to do something. "I felt let down," she said. She still has a scar on her arm and as far as we know, the man who abused her was never investigated. Following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, nine men were convicted in May 2012. [19] [22] Operation Doublet was launched at the same time as an investigation into child grooming and sexual abuse in the region. I'm only a kid - why is it always me? [8], Some gang members told the court the girls were willing participants and happy having sex with the men. Police began to investigate child grooming in Rochdale almost by accident. Instead, when she became upset and disruptive, she was arrested and later convicted of disorderly behaviour. There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. The convictions she received as a teen continue to hold her back to this day. It revealed that some CSC staff have been subjected to disciplinary action, although no-one is thought to have been sacked. Nine men between 24 and 38 years old were arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a child. The probe began after a local teenager was arrested for smashing up a cabinet at the Balti . Not just once - but repeatedly - by a gang of men who would ply her with vodka and threaten her with violence unless she succumbed to horrific abuse. A June 2008 report identified 50 children in the town at risk of sexual exploitation. Five of the girls had "clearly" needed help and intervention by safeguarding agencies before the abuse began, the report said. Sun Online looks at the group from Rochdale and Oldham, who exploited girls as young as 1 Numerous opportunities to intervene were missed and only two girls received child protection planning, the report said. Two worked for the same taxi firm and another two worked at a takeaway restaurant; some came from the same village in Pakistan and another two men shared a flat. Why has nothing happened to these men? The abuse of minor female children that occurred in 2008 and 2009 centred around two takeaways in Heywood near Rochdale. [8] The victims, plied with drugs and alcohol, were passed around friends and family,[18] and taken to various locations in the north of England, including Rochdale, Oldham, Nelson, Bradford and Leeds. Attempts by Rochdale Crisis Intervention Team co-ordinator for the NHS, Sara Rowbotham, to alert police and authorities to "patterns of sexual abuse" were ignored. They ripped away all my dignity". Although police interviewed a total of 56 men on suspicion of abuse, only a handful were tried. "It's not a normal relationship when your boyfriend is getting you to sleep with all his friends for money.". Speaking before the airing of a new BBC1 drama, Three Girls - which tells the story of three victims in the 2012 Rochdale sex grooming case - Margaret Oliver said police had still not learned. 2023 BBC. Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain of Greater Manchester Police told the BBC he thought while cases should be reviewed on an individual basis, now was the time for a wider, national debate in cases where young people may have been criminalised as a result of exploitation. You have only got my kind here. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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He shouted in court, "Where are the white people? Ive got a box in the back of my head, and I just put it all in there and its locked away.. [48][49], A further investigation was carried out by the British government in December 2020, when the Home Office published their findings, showing that the majority of child sexual exploitation gangs were, in fact, composed of white men and not British Pakistani men.[50][51]. Last Tuesday Amber, with two other victims of the Rochdale grooming gang, finally received an apology delivered personally by Stephen Watson, the chief constable of Greater Manchester police. The uncomfortable truth would eventually come out despite the botched original police investigation which concluded the girl, who would later become the prosecutions star witness, was not credible. Cryer said, "Neither the police nor social services would touch those cases. However, Sir Peter said the report failed to confront a "fundamental" problem faced by police officers, who are repeatedly asked to track down and return young people missing from children's homes, only for them to run away again. But when she was just 12, she was groomed and sexually abused by gangs of adult men. This reluctance was because shed been in this position before. He said there was no doubt she was a victim of horrendous abuse and exploitation and he accepted that the police response "could and should have been better". News. Greater Manchester Police said officers are becoming want to make sure Payton is 'safe and well'. When police were called to a report of a 15-year-old girl smashing up the Balti House takeaway in Heywood, they had no idea that the crime they had. Social services became involved when she started to arrive at school dirty and sometimes smelling of alcohol. Parents felt agencies "failed to work together", did not listen or keep them informed. "We have to remember that in most of those cases, the girls themselves did not regard themselves as victims and were not willing to make complaints and that is still the situation now," he said. ", "Lesley Sharp: 'What happened to the girls in Rochdale is never far from my mind', "British-Pakistani researchers say grooming gangs are 84% Asian", Failing victims, fuelling hate: challenging the harms of the 'Muslim grooming gangs' narrative. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood said that about 550 officers were working on Operation Doublet in May 2013. ", He added that significant improvements had been made to the way child sexual exploitation is investigated and encouraged anyone with any concerns to please get in touch. Why's nothing happened to the police? The serious case review looked at six girls who suffered sexual exploitation in Heywood, Rochdale between 2007 and 2010. Finally, after a gruelling 18 months and several hearings, the judge threw the case out. Daisy gave evidence at the Rochdale grooming trial; her testimony about the abuse she witnessed helped put men in prison. She has forced the police and social services to apologise to her for their behaviour. "That can't make sense.". Career Track: Leadership. While GMP has finally settled the claim, which includes the personal apology from the chief constable, the DPP has so far resisted. [1][8] Most of the men were married and well-respected within their community. Tellingly, he added: I believe that one of the factors that led to that was that they were not of your community or religion. One victim, a 15-year-old known as the Honey Monster, acted as a recruiter, procuring girls as young as 13 for the gang. Read about our approach to external linking. The women, who cannot be named for. The scandal shocked the nation - and helped change the way the criminal justice system treats victims of grooming. Willmer added: "We think this is the tip of the iceberg", although she cautioned against treating the matter as a race crime: "It's a criminal thing. [14] The CPS's original decision was overturned in 2011 when a new chief prosecutor for the region, Nazir Afzal, a first generation British-Pakistani,[15] was appointed. A second serious case review looked at a separate case involving a seventh girl. Molly Windsor, Liv Hill and Ria Zmitrowicz feature as a trio of girls drawn into the frightening world of sexual exploitation. Now they werent prepared to do that. [7] A former Detective Constable who was investigating the grooming gangs, Margaret Oliver, resigned in 2012 in disgust of the handling of the cases by the police force and spoke out as a whistleblower to inform the public. Furious, Maggie vowed never to be part of such an investigation in future. In subsequent cases, the racial and religious background of perpetrators have been exploited by some - but there have also been accusations that authorities were slow to act on concerns for fear of being dubbed racist. Sir Peter said Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd has set up an independent commission to look into the handling of cases involving teenagers with chaotic lifestyles. Updated 10:45, 3 JUL 2017. Following the case in Rochdale similar cases of grooming and sexual abuse/exploitation of young girls came to light in various towns and cities across the UK. [22] Suggestions emerged that police and social work departments failed to act when details of the gang emerged for fear of appearing racist, and vulnerable white teenagers being groomed by Pakistani men were ignored. "It made me feel like I was pretty. Her act of pent-up frustration in the takeaway - followed by her bravery in speaking out - was the first step, a key moment that would lead to questions about the part which racial identity played in sexual grooming of children in the town and in other places up and down the country. ", "Police 'sorry' over Rochdale child sex abuse failures", "This is what happened to Three Girls whistleblower Sara Rowbotham", "Nine men found guilty of sexually abusing vulnerable girls in Rochdale", "Senior judge slams lawyers for obstructing Rochdale child sex grooming gang deportation case", "Members of paedophile gang treated victims as 'worthless', "Gang To Be Sentenced Over Child Sex Crimes", "Profiles of Child Sex Abuse Gang Members", "Rochdale Grooming Scandal Whistleblower Defends Sarah Champion And Slams Austerity", "Rochdale child sex grooming case originally dropped", "Nazir Afzal: 'We tackled grooming gangs. [20], Four of the convicted, Shabir Ahmed, Adil Khan, Abdul Rauf and Abdul Aziz, who had dual British and Pakistani citizenships, were denaturalized (stripped of their British citizenship) by then Home Secretary Theresa May in order for them to be deported to Pakistan. Then, shortly after the ID parade, Oliver was told that they were no longer going to use Ambers evidence. She added: "The danger with saying that the problem is with one ethnicity is that then people will only be on the lookout for that group and will risk missing other threats. Nine men were convicted of being part of the child sexual exploitation ring, Nazir Afzal regrets that the CPS dropped the original grooming case, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Who were the men in the Rochdale grooming gang and what happened to them? Cockbain and Brayley expressed concern that "findings were being overextended from a small, geographically concentrated sample to characterise an entire crime type". She later went on to positively identify a number of offenders, which enabled charges to be brought against them all. 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The victims, many of whom were from difficult backgrounds and therefore particularly vulnerable, were plied with drugs, alcohol and fast food, and then taken to chill houses across the north of England to be abused. Why the Rochdale 'grooming trial' wasn't about race Focusing on the ethnicity of the men convicted of child sex offences in Rochdale detracts from the real issue: this was ultimately about. The government would not comment on the Rochdale case but said it had deported more than 51,000 foreign national offenders since 2010. [31], In late 2011, the Office of the Children's Commissioner began a two-year long inquiry into child sexual exploitation by street gangs. In 2017, the BBC aired the drama "Three Girls" which featured the story of . My name has been dragged through the mud. The police were called. UK News US News World News Weird News Real Life More Hopeful TeamDogs In Your Area. 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The victims were coerced and bribed into keeping quiet about the abuse by a combination of alcohol and drugs, food, small sums of money and other gifts. Also cited were a lack of managerial oversight in 2008 and 2009 and lack of resources and managerial support for the investigations despite formal requests. "I've had a lot of problems in the past, suicide attempts and drinking, but now I know something is being done to prevent it happening again. In 2009, when Amber was 16, uniformed officers arrived at her mothers house, arrested her and took her to the police station. The period during the buildup to the trial of the men accused of being part of the grooming gang, was dark for Amber. [citation needed], Twelve men were initially charged with sex trafficking and other offences including: rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. '", 'We should have listened to he broken teenagers'. Rochdale is also being considered as part of the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse, which is examining whether authorities across the country took the problem seriously. But she added: "They're just brainwashing you so you think you love them so you do what they say. "I was scared telling them, because I didn't know what the consequences would be from the men. "She yearns to put her awful experiences to some value. That nightmare should have ended with the arrest and trial of the perpetrators, but instead the police, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and even social services treated her not as a victim but as a perpetrator. In October 2010 the M.E.N. "We have got a number of girls in Rochdale that we believe are being abused and many of them will not talk to us and, even if they did, will not tell us about what is happening and certainly don't want to make a complaint because that means they go into the criminal justice system.". Nine men from Rochdale and Oldham were sentenced for up to 19 years in prison in May 2012 after being convicted of offences including rape. It is worth remembering though that none of it would be happening without a frightened, angry girl who had been raped venting her rage in a takeaway in Heywood and then being courageous enough to speak about what had happened. The alleged offences that took place in Rochdale between 2005 and 2013 included rape, conspiracy to rape, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual activity with a child, and sexual assault. The abuse took place in Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, in the early 2000s. One of the victims given the fictitious name Amber in Three Girls, the BBC One drama about the abuse was 14 when she was targeted by gang members. Handout pictures released by Greater Manchester police in 2012 show eight of nine men convicted in connection with the child sexual exploitation ring. ", Wigan driver waits to find out if he will be spared a road ban after driving at almost 100mph on the motorway, Police issue appeal to trace missing girl from Stockport, Urgent police appeal to locate missing teenage girl not seen for over 24 hours, Constance Marten's baby found in Brighton woodland Met Police say, Bolton Wanderers player Kyle Dempsey faces possible jail term - court, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon: Body found in search for missing baby, Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. "He asked me to come upstairs and I didn't really think anything of it," she explained. Job Description. She says they got into a fight and he hit her in the face. Shabir Ahmed received the longest sentence, 19 years for rape, aiding and abetting a rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. "At first I felt really bad, dirty and ashamed. The review acknowledged that police officers might have discriminatory attitudes towards the victims, that the victims were interviewed by detectives without training in child exploitation and no strategy when victims returned to their abusers. Maggie Oliver was again left fuming when one of the girls she had talked round - a victim of abuse - was placed in the indictment that went before the jury. Nine men of mainly Pakistani. A significant proportion of cases were labelled as no further action needed and the leadership team were not interested in childrens social care. Her mother was not allowed to be with her during the interview, and there was no mention of an appropriate adult. The trial at Liverpool Crown Court in 2012 heard five girls - aged between 13 and 15 - were given alcohol, food and money in return for sex but there were times when violence was used. Without Ambers initial evidence there might never have been a trial at all. Abdul Aziz, 51, Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Rauf, 52,. To date, the CPS has not accepted any failure on its part and instead continues to herald this case as the first successful prosecution of a grooming gang. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The ID parades were particularly gruelling for Amber, who did 12 in one day alone, correctly identifying 10 of her abusers. The woman now wants her story to be told to help people spot the signs of grooming, which she describes as "a common thing that not enough people know about". A serious case review by the Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board highlighted failures by 17 agencies who were meant to protect the children. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, How fake copyright complaints are muzzling journalists, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. Although a court order prevented her being named, everyone in her local community knew who she was. [10] The gang worked to secure underage girls to rape and exploit.[11][12]. In this case the judge did indicate his belief that the Rochdale gang had deliberately sought victims outside their own community. [25] Furthermore, The Times article alleged: "with the exception of one town there is scant evidence of work being undertaken in British Pakistani communities to confront the problem" of "pimping gangs" largely consisting of "members of the British Pakistani community". [5], In March 2015, Greater Manchester Police apologised for its failure to investigate the child sexual exploitation allegations more thoroughly between 2008 and 2010. [33] After members of the Rochdale gang were sentenced, the UK's Department for Education announced new funding for a specialist foster care scheme to protect vulnerable children in residential care, where some victims had been. She was being raped. A new investigation, dubbed Operation Span, was launched. Her complaint was not taken seriously and she carried on being abused by the gang until December 2008 when she fell pregnant and moved away. [1][2], The oldest person to be convicted, Shabir Ahmed,[16] was for a while the main trafficker of the victims. The investigation slowly built a compelling case, away from the public gaze. 'We are not going to stop' - Mikel Arteta sends Man City title message after Arsenal win, Manchester City now trail Arsenal by five points in the Premier League table after the Gunners beat Everton 4-0 on Wednesday night, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp learns Real Madrid lesson ahead of Manchester United clash, Liverpool beat Wolves in the Premier League on Wednesday and face Man United this weekend, West Ham manager David Moyes delivers bullish verdict on FA Cup defeat to Manchester United. [17], Victims were physically assaulted and raped by as many as five men at a time,[1] or obliged to have sex with "several men in a day, several times a week". 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