TELFORD: 1,000 CHILDREN, A POWERLESS INQUIRY AND THE MEN WHO WERE NEVER FORCED TO ANSWER.
Ten years ago, senior figures in Telford opposed an inquiry into the rape and sexual exploitation of its own children.
When an inquiry was eventually commissioned, it was non-statutory. It had no legal powers to compel witnesses to give evidence or force the disclosure of documents. Senior figures who held positions of responsibility during the years of abuse were therefore able to avoid being questioned.
When Tom Crowther KC finally reported in 2022, he referred to estimates that as many as 1,000 children had been sexually exploited. Campaigners consider his estimate to be conservative.
He found that the majority of CSE suspects were men of South Asian heritage, including perpetrators identified by victims as Pakistani. He also exposed how police and other authorities had failed to act, partly because they feared that investigating Asian men would inflame racial tensions.
But his inquiry was unable to hear from everyone it wanted to question, leaving important questions about individual accountability unanswered.
Fast forward 10 years and now the council and police are publicly at odds over what is happening today.
My latest dispatch will be published on Red Wall and the Rabble later this morning. It reveals what the official documents tell us and why this matters as the national inquiry approaches.
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For eight years I have exposed how politicians, police and public bodies failed working class White girls who were systematically raped by Pakistani grooming gangs. Together, with the support of the people of Oldham, we forced the Government to concede a National Statutory Inquiry after years of resistance.
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