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'.
In August 2008, police were called to a report of a teenage girl smashing the windows of a fast-food takeaway. From that lone incident, clearly sparked by a sense of desperation and anger, a chilling picture of child grooming and sexual abuse on a scale never before seen, and uncovered, in Greater Manchester slowly began to unravel in Rochdale.
The girl told police of the abuse she had suffered but, as other victims began to emerge, they faced a battle to be believed and for justice to be served.
