A lawyer who nailed the Rochdale grooming gang says Britain’s child abuse purge has “only begun scratching the surface”. Ex-chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal says targeted child abuse is “an enormous issue”.
And he blasts an eight-year wait for a government report into Asian grooming gangs. Mr Afzal, speaking after the Sunday Mirror’s award-winning exposé of the Telford abuse scandal, says: “We have an enormous issue to address.
We’ve only begun scratching the surface. “We have the highest conviction rate in our history. We went from a very low base to substantial success, but let’s not be complacent. "Three million adults say they were abused as a child.
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