‘It’s time Lord Ahmed was truly shamed’: Survivor speaks out

Campaigner and journalist Julie Bindel was the first to report on grooming scandals in the early 2000s. Here she talks exclusively to a survivor of ex-Labour peer Nazir Ahmed's child sexual abuse

It was in 2016, that Mr B, a survivor of sexual abuse, heard that a female victim had reported his attacker for attempted rape. I went mad when I heard that," he says. I could just about cope with knowing what he had done to me, but when I heard that I just thought: You dirty bastard, you are not getting away with this any longer.'"

The attacker was Nazir Ahmed, or Lord Ahmed of Rotherham as he prefers to be known, and last Friday he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for child sex offences, namely the attempted rape of a young girl and sexual assault of a boy, during the 1970s.