Great piece. What you are calling for, of course, is journalism: on the ground newsgathering from people who want to speak about those who would sooner die than open their mouths. Firmly agree. The inquiry could launch its own inspectorate to gather information not from public bodies but people on the ground.
One small quibble... the author writes that this inquiry must probe "tens of thousands of separate atrocities committed by disparate and often unlinked perpetrators over a span of decades". This is a mischaracterisation. What I am confident the inquiry will reveal is that the perpetrators were often directly linked — and not just by criminality — but b clan. These are not random friends and colleagues getting together for opportunistic sexual torture: they are highly formal, strict structures, connected by sociobiological kinship and, often, by organised criminal gang networks. They are not isolated to each town, they move across the country. In Oxford, you find perpetrators from Bolton. They are gun-running and drug dealing. The abuse is often secondary to their primary criminal enterprise. We have revealed this time and time again at GBN and our trafficking mapping and network analysis shows the depth and extent of those networks.
They are not disparate nor unlinked. This is the worst race-hate scandal in our history and it was carried out by men linked by clan, culture, criminality.
Thank you for the response and especially your correction on the nature of these gangs. I wrote this piece primarily because of how little sworn testimony had been taken in previous inquiries and now that the private inquiry set up by Rupert Lowe appeared to have this same reliance on public bodies instead of on investigative journalism, which you and GB News are perhaps the best example of, I did not want this achievement in fundraising to go to waste. I did not realise the formal or clannish structure of the rape gang networks when writing this and having read in the Casey report that "The men were therefore connected by their offending rather than any organised criminal structure." I'm sure I was not alone in being given this very wrong impression. The entirety of chapter four of the report looks dubious in this light and I sincerely hope this is corrected in the inquiry.
Great piece. What you are calling for, of course, is journalism: on the ground newsgathering from people who want to speak about those who would sooner die than open their mouths. Firmly agree. The inquiry could launch its own inspectorate to gather information not from public bodies but people on the ground.
One small quibble... the author writes that this inquiry must probe "tens of thousands of separate atrocities committed by disparate and often unlinked perpetrators over a span of decades". This is a mischaracterisation. What I am confident the inquiry will reveal is that the perpetrators were often directly linked — and not just by criminality — but b clan. These are not random friends and colleagues getting together for opportunistic sexual torture: they are highly formal, strict structures, connected by sociobiological kinship and, often, by organised criminal gang networks. They are not isolated to each town, they move across the country. In Oxford, you find perpetrators from Bolton. They are gun-running and drug dealing. The abuse is often secondary to their primary criminal enterprise. We have revealed this time and time again at GBN and our trafficking mapping and network analysis shows the depth and extent of those networks.
They are not disparate nor unlinked. This is the worst race-hate scandal in our history and it was carried out by men linked by clan, culture, criminality.
Thank you for the response and especially your correction on the nature of these gangs. I wrote this piece primarily because of how little sworn testimony had been taken in previous inquiries and now that the private inquiry set up by Rupert Lowe appeared to have this same reliance on public bodies instead of on investigative journalism, which you and GB News are perhaps the best example of, I did not want this achievement in fundraising to go to waste. I did not realise the formal or clannish structure of the rape gang networks when writing this and having read in the Casey report that "The men were therefore connected by their offending rather than any organised criminal structure." I'm sure I was not alone in being given this very wrong impression. The entirety of chapter four of the report looks dubious in this light and I sincerely hope this is corrected in the inquiry.