Former chief investigative reporter for The Times Andrew Norfolk has died aged 60. Norfolk was single-handedly responsible for bringing Pakistani rape gangs to national attention...
Norfolk launched a two-year investigation into targeted grooming and sexual exploitation of teenage girls in 2010 in Rotherham and Rochdale – reports appeared from January 2011 onwards. His reporting challenged the official narrative that ethnicity had no impact on offending in these cases. For this the reporter was vilified and harassed by left-wing figures…
There followed a string of inquiries, investigations, prosecutions, and resignations. The Jay report was published in the summer of 2014 and named 1,400 victims. Ten years later the issue has not diminished in importance as Labour refuses to hold a national inquiry into the rape gangs…
Norfolk said earlier this year that “abuse would never be fully stamped out until there was proper research into and understanding of the issues of religion, culture and social cohesion that had allowed criminals to flourish.” The same hand-wringing that resulted in the cover-up of the gangs is still holding back justice today. R.I.P.
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