The British police constable who was one of the first people to investigate grooming gangs in the city of Manchester has written a summary of her years-long battle to get the police force to take the situation seriously. Maggie Oliver had only been on the force for seven years when she learned about the case of a 15-year-old girl who had been groomed, abused and eventually killed by Mohammed Yaqoob, a 50-year-old Pakistani man who injected her with too much heroin leading to an overdose. Oliver was put on the case and quickly began to uncover the full extent of the gang’s behavior.
There were three of us on the team as well as a detective inspector who was leading the day-to-day investigations. Within weeks, social workers helped us identify a group of about 100 abusers who were potentially raping dozens of children on a daily basis.
Social workers, who knew…
