Rotherham abuse: Researcher’s warning ‘ignored in 2002’

I was up until midnight last night waiting for this interview to come on line after the 10pm BBC News. It is on-line now.

The Home Office researcher whose report into the rape of English girls by Pakistani men was squashed in 2002 has spoken openly at last. I should have guessed that she was a Yorkshirewoman – I pondered whether a London head-office based official would have been better protected and supported.

Listen to her describe how a policeman stopped her outside the office  

He and a colleague said words along the lines of ‘Wouldn’t it be a shame if these perpetrators found out where you and your family lived’. “And I took that as a direct threat to my personal safety. The message was very clear.”

South Yorkshire Police say they can not comment on that particular claim.

That is horrifying. Thats not just the police being too PC to prosecute. That’s the police actually involved in the prostitution.