How Starmer was forced to admit CPS let down child victims of grooming gangs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : He said: "I think looking into the conduct of the Crown Prosecution Service, including during the time when Keir Starmer was the director of public prosecutions, would be one of the things that this inquiry should certainly be looking at."A gang of men took part in the rape and abuse of girls as young as 12 in Oldham and Rochdale before they were finally brought to justice years later.
34% : Speaking in 2012 after the Rochdale grooming scandal, the then director of public prosecutions (DPP) said perpetrators had escaped justice for decades because of the failure of the authorities to take the abuse seriously.

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