{"id":202087,"date":"2020-02-07T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T08:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202087"},"modified":"2020-02-10T07:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:55:50","slug":"asian-grooming-gang-free-to-roam-streets-because-officers-were-told-to-find-other-ethnicities-to-investigate-detective-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202087","title":{"rendered":"Asian grooming gang free to roam streets because officers were told to ‘find other ethnicities’ to investigate, detective claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabriella Swerling \u2013 The Telegraph Jan 14, 2020<\/h1>\n
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Men convicted of grooming underage white girls for sex in Rochdale. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

An Asian grooming gang was free to roam the streets and abuse young girls because police officers were told to \u201cfind other ethnicities\u201d to investigate, a detective has claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n

At least 57 young girls are thought to have been exploited by a paedophile network of around 100 suspected perpetrators based in south Manchester in the 2000s. The gang, mainly comprised of Asian men, hooked their victims on drugs, groomed, and sexually abused them. One girl, aged 15, died after being injected with heroin by a 50-year-old man.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following a two-year inquiry, commissioned by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, into the historic failings of police and social workers, a report was published today\u00a0which concluded that vulnerable girls in care were groomed and abused in “plain sight”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report found multiple failings at the hands of GMP, including how fears over race relations appear to have played a part in senior police thinking when tackling grooming gangs comprised of predominantly Asian men.<\/span><\/p>\n

It added that officers were aware of “many sensitive community issues” around policing in south Manchester in 2002 and 2003<\/span><\/p>\n

Giving evidence to the report panel, a Detective Superintendent was emphatic that any concerns about creating further community tensions did not influence any of his investigative decisions, but the impact “clearly had to be considered” by senior officers in the gold command group.<\/span><\/p>\n

However the report also quotes an unnamed GMP detective constable, involved in the arrest and jailing of one child sex offender, who was not of Asian heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n

It quotes him as saying: “What had a massive input was the offending target group were predominantly Asian males and we were told to try and get other ethnicities.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Operation Augusta was set up in 2004 and uncovered the systematic exploitation of looked after \u00a0children mainly in the care system in the city of Manchester and around the Rochdale area.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s report, report, written by child protection specialist Malcolm Newsam CBE and former senior police officer Gary Ridgway, comes following the death of 15-year-old Victoria Agoglia, who \u2013 after years of abuse and days after she was injected with heroin by a 50-year-old man – died in hospital of an overdose in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Margret Oliver. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The inquiry was launched off the back of allegations made by former GMP detective turned whistleblower, Maggie Oliver.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a detective, she had investigated countless gangland murders, shootings, kidnappings, rapes and witness protection jobs. She said that she felt \u201cvindicated\u201d by the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said: \u201cGirls were lost to the wind. What has been the cost of all these lives? We will never be able to put a number on how many lives have been lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI want the law changing so there can be retrospective accountability for people whose duty it is to protect the vulnerable. It\u2019s knowing and deliberate neglection of duty\u2026[those who were involved] should be charged with gross misconduct – it\u2019s criminal – where is the accountability?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was face-to-face with 15 years of misogyny – \u2018stupid woman, she\u2019s become too emotionally involved\u2019 – authorities are very powerful and tried to control the dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be other people in their own force areas who see similar things, I encourage them to stand up and speak up. This has been life for 15 years, it\u2019s destroyed my life but I don\u2019t regret it because we\u2019ve made the public aware that this is the truth. I think the establishment will do half the job if they can get away with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

GMP has made a referral to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct. so that they can carry out an independent assessment to determine if there are any conduct matters that should be investigated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain, Head of Specialist Crime for Greater Manchester Police, said: \u201cWe accept that authorities fell short of doing all they could to protect and support the child victims of sexual exploitation identified under Operation Augusta in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cChildren should be able to expect those responsible for their care will do all they can to keep them safe and I want to apologise to all those vulnerable children who were let down.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI can only imagine the pain and distress they must have gone through, which would have only been made worse by these failings. I am sorry they were let down and I am sorry they were not protected from harm.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the children were subject to the most profound abuse and, although the review team acknowledged there was much in Operation Augusta and the work carried out by the investigation team to be commended, we agree the overall operation was not to the standard rightfully expected from victims.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that the case involving Victoria Agoglia\u2019s death is ongoing and anyone with information is being urged to come forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria Agoglia was in the care of Manchester City Council following the death of her mother. The report found that her carers were aware of her being subjected to “multiple threats, sexual assaults and serious sexual exploitation” and were told that she was being “injected with heroin by an older Asian man [however] no action was taken by the police or social care”.<\/span><\/p>\n

She subsequently died “having been administered an overdose”, but the men who exploited her “have never been brought to justice”, the report said, \u00a0 Following the publication of the report, grandmother, Joan Agoglia, said the publication of the report made her feel “wonderful as I’ve been fighting for this all my life, it seems”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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