Police fear ‘right-wing driven’ reaction to grooming gangs will harm victims
by Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6TMZF)
Senior officers say fraction of child abuse cases relate to gangs and resources could be diverted from current cases
Senior police officers fear that government pressure to reinvestigate closed historic cases of gang grooming could make it harder to catch those targeting children today.
The government on Thursday announced more reviews of past cases and also that victims, whose cases did not end in prosecutions, will be given a new right of appeal to have their investigations reopened.
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