Maggie Oliver: Last News

Maggie Oliver has defended barristers' decision to strike as a 'last resort' to fix what she claims is a "crumbling" criminal justice system.

Children were being raped 'every day' - but the 'lone voices' who spoke out about it were 'disbelieved' and 'silenced'.

Police officers and social workers raised fears that more than 500 children from Oldham were being sexually abused last year - the highest in nearly a decade - a Manchester Evening News and Local Democracy Reporting Service investigation has found.

The MP of the Greater Manchester town rocked by a child abuse scandal says he wants 'some action, not just more words' after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched a new grooming gangs taskforce to root out and jail paedophiles preying on vulnerable youngsters.

More than a decade on, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the Rochdale child grooming scandal 'remains one of the greatest failures of our society'.

Former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police Sir Peter Fahy has mounted a robust defence in the face of allegations from a force whistleblower that he created a 'culture of cronyism' that promoted under-qualified officers into senior positions.

gang has been honoured as an 'equalities representative' while serving time behind bars for his depraved crimes. Shabir Ahmed, 69, has been handed the prestigious title as he continues to serve his 22-year sentence at HMP wakefield, also known as monster mansion due to its influx of sex offenders.

The horrific case of a 12-year-old girl who was raped by strangers and let down by authorities in Oldham is ‘not unique’, says the ex-detective who has repeatedly blown the whistle on child abuse failings.

Loose Women panelists and social media users for her work in supporting victims of the Rochdale grooming scandal.On today's episode (14 April) of Loose Women, Maggie Oliver spoke about how police at the time failed to help the victims of the Rochdale grooming scandal that came to light in 2012Speaking to the panelists, Maggie explained that the victims have become like her own daughters and said: "To sit there and watch the light come up in her eyes when she, for the first time, sat there and read a letter saying 'you were a victim', 'you were failed', and 'we should not have treated you like this', was really emotional."I have seen that child, she's a young woman now, nearly lose her children because she had been portrayed as 'a madam' when she was 14 and 15 years old."Maggie revealed she went to a chief constable in desperation to explain that the young girls were victims, however, he "fobbed" her off, "ignored the children" and "allowed this to happen for ten years."The former police officer revealed that she's had to "fight to the nail" and has been through two sets of lawyers to get an apology for the victims. Talking specifically about one of the victims, Maggie said: "She has been demonised as a madam, as a criminal, as a child who wasn't worth prosecuting dozens of men who raped her."After hearing her story, fans headed straight for Twitter to praise Maggie in all that she's done.One user said: "Maggie Oliver is a very courageous woman, we need more like her to deal with the issue."A second penned: "Well done Maggie what you have done for survivors is remarkable."Another wrote: "Maggie Oliver needs to be made Dame Maggie Oliver.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has welcomed GMP's apology to three victims of grooming gangs in Rochdale.

Police and authorities might be 'downplaying' the scale of child sexual exploitation by criminal gangs over concerns they could be seen as 'another Rochdale or Rotherham'.

A brave detective who risked her career to highlight the horror of child sex grooming wept happy tears when she was honoured with a Pride of ­Manchester Award.

The detective who helped expose one of Britain’s worst paedophile scandals today demands a police investigation into Prince Andrew’s links with Ghislaine Maxwell.