Newport: Attempted murder arrest as altercation closes Caerleon Road
A 42-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two men were injured in an "altercation" that closed a road in Newport.Gwent Police said officers were called to an address on Caerleon Road at about 19:00 BST on Sunday.The force said the men were taken to hospital, but their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing and were discharged.A 33-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of affray.
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When Sir Keir Starmer called Baroness Casey of Blackstock and asked her to examine the scale and nature of child sex grooming, she was opposed to another national inquiry. 'I didn't want to spend any more money on legal fees and lawyers when actually there were perpetrators that need locking up in prison. I'd rather spend money, frankly, on more prison places and more police officers to put more of these rapists inside.' But as she began speaking to police and local authorities, and scouring through conviction statistic and local reviews, the overwhelming theme was one of denial and obfuscation. Casey uncovered an 'appalling lack' of data on the ethnicity of perpetrators and a reluctance to face up to the truth, linked to fears of reputational damage as well as cultural insensitivities. She was dismayed at a lack of accountability for failings of the past. And, most importantly, she found that victims were still not being protected. 'Everywhere I went, I found people saying, 'Oh we don't need an inquiry'. Apart from Oldham, nowhere else embraced the idea of doing a local inquiry. And I realised, 'We haven't got this right'. 'We have let victims down. And they're children. There isn't this willingness to look at the history and say 'Did we get this right?'. And so I moved very much to the conclusion that we need national grip.' Casey's report details how young and vulnerable predominantly white girls across the country have been plied with drugs and alcohol before being passed to men who groom them into sex, using violence and coercion. Shockingly, given it is more than a decade since my late colleague Andrew Norfolk exposed this problem, Casey cannot form a national conclusion on the role of ethnicity because of an institutionalised failing to record who is responsible for these crimes. In the areas where it has been properly investigated, though, males of Asian and largely Pakistani descent are disproportionately involved. 'Without a doubt,' Casey says, 'there's a fear that if you get to the bottom of this then it turns out to be something you don't want to hear.' The official term — 'group-based child sexual exploitation' — failures to capture this horror. What it means is child victims of rape, often gang rape, having to have abortions, contracting sexually transmitted infections, having children taken from them at birth. Then, when they report it, they are retraumatised. The system does not protect them and often they are not believed. It is an unremittingly grim read. But what makes it worse is that Casey and others uncovered it all in Rotherham a decade ago, in series of scathing reports that lifted the lid on how the authorities had turned a blind eye to sex grooming. • Starmer ruled out a grooming gangs inquiry. What changed? Sitting in the Treasury building, where she and her team — 'getting back together, like Ocean's Thirteen ' — have been based to conduct the five-month audit, Casey shakes her head. 'I have rage on behalf of the victims. Nobody has been held accountable for the decisions they made. Nobody is learning the lessons they should learn to make sure this doesn't happen again.' She recalls the work of Norfolk, who revealed in 2011 how gangs of predominantly Pakistani men had groomed and targeted young white girls. His painstaking investigative work, for which he faced accusations of racism, helped Casey understand how the gangs worked and how their crimes were covered up. Norfolk died last month. Casey presumed that the government, police, councils and other agencies would 'wake up to the fact that these were abused children and do their damnedest to make sure these victims were given as much care, respect and chance at justice as possible'. That has not happened, for three main reasons. First, cultural sensitives and concerns. She recalls an official in Rotherham who felt-tipped out the word 'Pakistani' on a children's services file, an attitude that she has found reflected around the country this time around. 'I thought, 'Oh God, the person that did this is well-meaning but utterly stupid'.' But the attitude still lingers around the country. She also says that concerns about reputation held by those in power — in government, police, local authorities and health services — have also played a part. 'People's ability to put their reputation above everything else is quite profound. And that's partly because we've got quite a nasty society nowadays, where you can be very quickly scapegoated publicly and personally. So I think there is a nervousness about looking at where your organisation, or you, have not led it effectively. And I understand that nervousness.' Finally, she wants to expose the wider society's 'ambivalence' to adolescent girls, particularly those who are vulnerable because they are in care or come from impoverished backgrounds. She points at me and one of her aides on the audit: 'If they were our children, the three of us who are women here in this room, there would be outrage. We would not put up with this if they were children that belonged in middle-class families. And I profoundly believe that it is incumbent on all of us in public life and particularly in government to make sure the voice of those who have no voice is very much listened to and acted upon.' Casey wants the national inquiry, which will oversee local investigations, to make sure once and for all that 'the voice of those who have no voice is very much listened to and acted upon'. Starmer asked Casey to conduct the audit after remarks by Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, resulted in a public outcry, online disinformation and claims of a coverup. Musk accused Starmer of being complicit in the 'rape of Britain', even though as the then director of public prosecutions he had changed the laws to try to tackle the problem. Some Labour MPs accused those who raised concerns of fuelling the far right, while the MP Lucy Powell apologised for later describing it as 'dog-whistle politics'. Dubbed the 'tsar of tsars', who has advised government on other thorny subjects including cohesiveness, homelessness and troubled families, Casey says that Starmer asked her to 'get a grip and tell me exactly what is going on'. 'And when he called I said, 'You know me, I'll tell you exactly what I think'. To which the answer was, 'That's why I want you'.' Casey says the problems has been used as a tool by the far right. She says that when she produced a community cohesion review in 2016 for David Cameron, prime minister at the time, she 'saw then that the inability of all parts of society to potentially talk about difficult things was a gift to the nasty extremist hate mongers'. This subject sits squarely in that space. 'The problem is that when I hear people on the far right talk about it, I think, 'You're only doing this for your own ends. You are milking this to sow division. You do not care'.' She is emphatic, though, that it is not racist to want to examine the ethnicity of offenders, because it can help to better understand and help tackle all kinds of crime. 'Do I want kids who happen to be Asian walking around the streets of this country thinking that I or anybody else has said they are more likely to be a perpetrator of these heinous crimes? I do not think that and I do not want them to think that. I think we've got to be really clear about that. 'But it is the right thing to do to collect the data sufficiently and start having the difficult conversations locally and nationally. I think everybody needs to be measured and calm.'
