Posted on 02/03/2025 7:48:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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 the victims well, told me the scale of the crimes, and how the gangs operated in Manchester. Almost always, the girls knew their abusers. They were men who worked as taxi drivers and at Asian restaurants, people the girls met around the community. At least one, we suspected, was a police officer. These men would park outside care facilities and wait for the girls to return from school, then persuade them to come to their homes or remote places in the countryside where they were forced to drink bottles of alcohol and take drugs. At least 26 girls were raped vaginally, anally, and orally, passed around between gangs of up to 20 men at a time. Sometimes the abusers would give the girls £10 for their troubles; other times they were forced to submit by knifepoint or gunpoint. One girl was told she would be “burned alive” if she said anything...
Through our network, we started to learn this was happening nationwide. We spoke to forces in Liverpool and West Yorkshire, and both reported the same phenomenon: networks of predominantly Muslim men of Pakistani descent who were grooming and raping underage white girls.
I discovered the gangs were in cahoots. Men trafficked girls to other towns where they knew other abusers. But for some reason, the police in these districts had also been slow to respond.
This was in 2004 and around this time, Oliver took an extended leave because her husband had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. After his death, she returned to work and immediately asked what had happened with the case.
As soon as I returned, I asked a senior colleague for an update on Operation Augusta. “Oh yeah,” he said offhandedly. “They’ve warned a couple of lads under the Child Abduction Act.”
In other words, a few suspects got a slap on the wrist, but no one was charged.
And that was it. The operation was shut down, allegedly because they lacked enough evidence to bring charges.
We had hundreds of pages of reports from social workers, sexual health clinics, and care home staff. We had precise locations of abuse, car registration plates, names, addresses, and testimony from witnesses with corroborating accounts. And yet not one of the 97 suspects we had gathered evidence against was charged with rape, and not one of the 26 young victims would see justice. It was as if all my life’s work and all these children’s lives meant nothing at all. Meanwhile, the abusers were still roaming free, able to target more children.
Years passed until a key to making some of the charges stick was discovered in a police evidence freezer. An aborted baby which had been collected by police after a 13-year-old victim of the gangs got pregnant. It had sat in the freezer for a year with no one making any effort to move the case forward.
Oliver continued to pursue evidence against the gangs for more than a year, brining her findings to a series of higher-up police officials all of whom seemed curiously disinterested in pursuing the case. One even threatened her about not revealing anything she knew to the media.
With nowhere else to turn, she filed a formal grievance saying the police were failing to investigate crimes. But the official response accused her of being "overemotional" about the case.
Nevertheless there was a trial held in 2012 in which 11 Pakistani men were tried and nine were eventually convicted. Those convicted got various sentences but in the UK they were mostly released after serving half their time. So the person who had raped and impregnated the teen girl whose aborted baby was found in the freezer served 4 years.
The sentences were minor and more importantly, the vast majority of rapists involved in the gang were never charged at all. Oliver quit her job in 2012 in order to tell her story to the media. She started working with a reporter at the BBC. In March of 2013 the story aired.
Listening to Ruby, Amber, and other victims talk about their ordeal made me cry all over again. Hearing my own voice was surreal and unnerving. And then I was shocked to hear the words of Chief Constable Peter Fahy, the head of the Greater Manchester Police. He said some of the victims were not credible witnesses, because they had “consented” to sex with their abusers.
A few days later, I heard Fahy on another BBC Radio program saying I’d become too emotionally involved in the case, probably because I had suffered the deaths of my husband and later, my granddaughter, who passed away at the age of 2 from a rare genetic disorder.
It wasn't until 2018 that an independent review revealed the original case had been shut down in part because no one wanted to deal with the "sensitive community issues" the case revealed. In other words, the fact that nearly all of the men involved were Pakistani and all of the girls involved were white. That and the fact that it was routine for police to refer to the 13 and 14 year-olds being groomed as "child prostitutes" or even "sex workers."
The piece ends with Oliver thanking Elon Musk for amplifying the story about this case a larger audience than had heard about it previously. She says the gangs are still operating and most of the men involved have never been charged.
Love her. She’s been very outspoken.
Criminal.
BTT
"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."
Maggie Oliver is a brave and very determined woman.
If King Charles cares even a little for his country, he should give Oliver a high decoration. It is well within his rights as monarch to do so.
And it would send a message.
On top of everything else, they would take videos of their rapes and using them for RECRUITING new migrants from back in Pakistan.
Perhaps the UK should consider doing something about this? Just maybe?
no quarter for predators
“From river to the sea”
The Muzzie’s cry you see
Upon Big Ben.
Christ’s Kingdom commeth yet
Will the Brits’ Empire get
Where the sun never sets?
Never again.
And the previous stanzas:
To Muslims don't be rude
Living in dhimmitude,
No offense bring.
Gospel preaching is "hate"
Christian faith second rate
The goal of servile state:
Alllah is King.
All women Hijabs wear
To avoid angry stares
Muslim or not.
Cover in sight of school!
That is the contract rule
Can't have muzzie school boys drool
At hair so hot.
For kiddie's farm set play
We take the pigs away
(They are unclean)
Never make Muzzies mad
They might declare Jihad
And though it makes children sad
Pigs are unseen.
When Ramadan draws near
We forsake ale and beer
(Can't give offense)
School children can't eat lunch
Can't even candies crunch
Lest Moslems' panties bunch
Dhimmis' nonsense.
Can't stop with solid food
Liquid intake is rude
Don't "water" kids
Let them all dehydrate
Christian faith’s second-rate
Diversity’s ever-great
Alllah is King.
Don"t ignite a Koran
Can"t even burqas ban
They might protest
Shar-i-a's here to stay
Amputate, stone away
Beheadings on Friday
Thus falls the West.
We'll sport a shav-ed head
Wear sashes made of red
To get along.
Appeasement is our way,
Chamberlin our main stay
"Give us peace in our day"
Our final song.
History books made clean
"Holocaust" never seen
Must teach a lie.
Separate but equal?
Not in a British school
What is this new found rule?
"All truth must die."
Don"t write Father Christmas
He is no terrorist
But send a note
To those who spread ill will
Torture maim, hurt and kill
Support ISIS, we will
And on them dote
For spitting in a pram
The suspect on the lam
Never sees jail
“White people should not breed”
Such filthy muslim screed
Goes unpunished do take heed:
Britain shall fail.
When gay priders sashay
No signs “Allah is Gay”
Don’t dare offend.
All animals equal
But some are more equal
Living by Orwell’an rules
Free speech does end.
When Muslims groom school girls
Our upper lips are curled
“Asians” the word.
Can’t let Muslims be vexed
While kids are prepped for sex
What perversion shall be next?
Our world is Third.
Schoolgirls must Hijabs wear
Cover all female hair
As young as five
If they are covered not
“Islamophobe” is thought
What has this madness wrought?
Islam will thrive
Don’t make a crude, rude joke
‘Twill land you in poke
No free speech here.
“Come here to bomb the place?”
Can’t say with any face
Insult Muslims: disgrace
Jail time is near.
Oxford now saith, “Nay”
To keep Saint George’s day
With feast this year.
What honor shared instead
Of their patron saint’s head?
Why, have you not read?
Eid-al-Fitr.
It seems to me that the constable was saying that the residential population were intimidated, as demonstrated by the guidance of not saying anything to the media.
The constable was getting feed back from the wrong residential population which means he wasn't really looking for an answer,
or he was referring his question to a population which considers women to be nothing more than property, to be 'used', as is found in Islam.
Could it be that the entire residential population is intimidated, just as the constable seems to avoid controversy.
In a word, there was no serious inquiry, he just didn't want to be bothered at all with the situation on his beat.
This is not what I consider to be 'Christian behavior', given that 'we are our brothers keeper'.
Has the British nation fallen so low ?
The fact that King Charles has never done anything of the kind, and is part of covering it all up, sends a bigger message.
the indifference is them being involved
And what did the MSM of the West do?
Last month, I was amazed when Elon Musk, one of the most powerful men in the world, suddenly took an interest in this story. I also felt vindicated. What happened in my hometown, and in other towns in the UK, all those years ago was so shocking and horrible it is now making waves across the world.
It’s a shame it’s taken a South African–born billionaire living in America to spread the word about this very British scandal. Of course, the UK government is hoping it will all fade away—even as the rape gangs are still operating to this day and the overwhelming majority of abusers have never been charged.
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