It is no disrespect – indeed, quite the opposite – to wonder why the BBC’s investigative reporter Sue Mitchell and her colleagues succeeded where the British state failed, having managed to track down and question one of Europe’s most prolific people traffickers.
Filmed casually sweeping the pavement outside one of his mini-marts in Blaby, near Leicester, Twana Jamal was confronted by Ms Mitchell with the evidence of his various crimes; at first he denied them, and then remarked: “I don’t care.”