Maggie Oliver on GMB this morning- Armistice day

I watched Maggie this morning, it makes me so flipping cross 😡😡😡

I couldn’t agree more, it is heartbreaking, it is still happening and still being ignored.

Over 20 years ago my daughter lived in a flat overlooking a take away, she and her friends realised there was clearly something wrong going on involving young girls and lots of men.

She contacted the Police who had ignored her so she emailed the chief inspector and copied in her MP.

Surveillance was set up in her flat and it was clear as to what was happening but she was told there was not enough evidence.

5 years ago she sent the email trail to an investigative journalist and she was interviewed on the radio.

The consensus of opinion was that for some reason Police and the authorities are afraid of upsetting the Muslim community.

You are absolutely correct, Sago.

I think it's disgraceful how so much of this has been swept under the carpet, I do really think there are those who would like it to go away. How can it be ignored when it was, and possibly still is, on an industrial scale. Consider the furore around Russell Brand and now David Walliams, I'm not saying it's not right and just that their behaviour should come under the spotlight and be dealt with accordingly....and that has been swift once the accusations came out into the public domain. The grooming gang debacle has dragged on for years. So much obfuscation around recommendations that haven't been acted on. It's almost as if, if we deal with these high profile, privileged abusers it demonstrates to women and girls how much society cares about their security, whilst meanwhile it's all still going on and why? because it's still a thing that massive kid gloves are required around certain demographics.

TerriBull 👏👏👏

I didn’t see her on TV but I do know she is doing terrific work with these abused women.

Those in authority are afraid of investigating celebs or Muslims so they just pretend it’s not happening. Disgraceful.

Absolutely spot on TerriBull Race/ethnicity/heritage should not be brought into it, in the rape gang cases it gives the perpetrators a sneaky by and clouds the whole issue.

If these men are British citizens, if they work, pay taxes, bring up families, expect all the rights due to British citizens then why the hell are they above and beyond the reach of British justice?

The survivors of the terrible ordeals inflicted by Brand and all the others have, in some part, won a bit of justice seeing their abusers named and brought to account as much by rightful public outrage as police investigation. Some of them were children when raped by Brand, imagine the outrage if ALL of the survivors of his abuse were children?

This is in no way a denigration of their suffering. All should be treated equally -there is no place for a protected status of perpetrators in any of these abhorrent crimes.

I remember a piece on tv years ago where Maggie Oliver was telling the story of driving a victim around the area ( she was still a serving officer then) to try and find the flat where her and many others had been abused.
The girl said thats him, that’s him Maggie asked who
the girl pointed to a police inspector in uniform walking down the road towards their car.
Maggie left the force not long after that to concentrate full time on trying to put the scum in prison.
Catching them was easy, trying to navigate the corrupt police was the hard part 🤬