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Charlie Peters

OPINION - The last inquiry failed grooming gang victims — we need a full national inquiry

A National Crime Agency composite shows (L-R, top to bottom) Iqlak Yousaf, Nabeel Kurshid and Asif Ali, Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar, Salah Ahmed El-Hakam and Tanweer Hussain Ali - (PA/NCA)

It’s easy to get sucked into the online fight between Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and the British government over the rape gangs scandal. But it risks us losing sight of what really matters: the victims and their needs.

The scandal has been laid out by reports on places like Rotherham, Telford and Rochdale: thousands of girls, mostly white, were raped and abused, often in sadistic ways, by organised networks of abusers, who were disproportionately of Pakistani origin.

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