There’s always a tweet. I look forward to the day when Mr Colquhoun and other SNP HQ staff will be called upon to give evidence about this and other matters.
SHE REPORTED CHILD ABUSE 181 TIMES. BRITAIN SAID NOT NOW, THANKS.
Sara Rowbotham was an NHS sexual health coordinator in Rochdale. Between 2005 and 2011 she filed 181 detailed referrals to Greater Manchester Police and social services.
Each one named victims. Each one described systematic rape and trafficking of girls as young as 11. Each one went nowhere.
She was not ignored because the evidence was weak. She was ignored because the evidence was inconvenient.
Authorities labelled her not credible. Her team was dismissed. The official reason given for inaction was community cohesion.
Read that again.
Community cohesion. While children were being passed between men like property, the priority was keeping things quiet.
She was made redundant in 2014.
A 2024 independent review confirmed every referral she filed was credible, substantive and appropriately communicated. The same review identified 96 men still considered an active risk to children. Still out there. In 2024. Because the original response scraped only the surface and called it a job done.
Five police officers refused to cooperate with the review. They were not charged. They were not recalled. They retired on pensions.
Sara Rowbotham got an MBE.
The system that failed 181 times got a press release about lessons learned.
If this does not alarm you, you have not understood it yet.
@BBC@guardian@AndyBurnhamGM
#DishonestJohn like #BrassNic demanded David McLetchie, Wendy Alexander & Henry McLeish all RESIGN over relatively small issues. This is a massive scandal. Swinney's position is untenable and it will only get worse in coming weeks. As will the briefing against him.
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The reason I became a “persistent critic” of the SNP leadership from 2017 onwards was that I became aware of ineptitude & a whiff of corruption behind the scenes. The backlash was very unpleasant but I’m proud to have been vindicated. It was worth it. https://t.co/lME8KZr3yC
The process around the supposed handball by Nicholson sounded incredibly rushed to the point of panicked and emotional. Andrew Dallas sounded like his trousers were on fire
It’s only right to say that Hearts had some terrible decisions go their way and Celtic had some terrible ones go against them but everything about the Kyziridis and Nicholson incidents is even wilder now that we’ve heard the ‘communication’ and Willie Collum’s ‘explanation’.