15-05-2025
Grooming gangs scandal to get ‘moment of reckoning', vows minister
A 'moment of reckoning' is coming in Britain's grooming gangs scandal centered on the question of 'why so many people maybe looked the other way', the justice secretary has said.
Shabana Mahmood said there was a need for 'truth and reconciliation' for people whose trust in authorities had been 'fundamentally shaken, if not totally broken'.
While 'justice might technically have been delivered' through perpetrators being convicted, victims deserved answers on 'why this wasn't picked up sooner', she added.
Mahmood's comments to the Spectator come as the death of Andrew Norfolk, the Times journalist who uncovered the scandals, was announced.
Norfolk's reporting in 2011 revealed a pattern of mainly white teenage girls being groomed by gangs of adult men of Pakistani heritage after a growing
