EXPOSED: How Andy Burnham's Police Force Hunted The Whistleblowers Instead Of The Child Rapists

Leaked documents raise questions about whether a joint police and council operation was used against those exposing the rape gang cover-up, with information flowing into Andy Burnham's own review while the operation itself remained beyond scrutiny.

There is a police operation Greater Manchester Police will not talk about. For years the public was allowed to believe it existed to hunt the men who raped Oldham's children. It carried a Gold command structure, the apparatus reserved for terror attacks and major disasters, and it ran for years in near total secrecy.

The documents tell a different story. The operation was watching the people exposing the cover up of the rape gangs. Two sitting Labour MPs fed complaints into it. Its intelligence circulated among Labour politicians who then weaponised it against private citizens. And its product flowed, by written agreement, into Andy Burnham's assurance review, the same review that would declare there had been no cover up, while the operation itself was placed beyond the review's reach.

They called it Operation Hexagon. It never charged a single man over the rape of a child. The cases it built against the people it hunted collapsed. Had those cases held, there would be no National Inquiry into the grooming gangs today.

What follows is the evidence. A leaked email from the Leader of Oldham Council. The operation's name written into the founding document of the Mayor's own review. Statements from GMP's command team. Court rulings. Dates that align too neatly to be accident. Read it all and decide for yourself who Operation Hexagon was built to stop.