Barry Hanson

[Barry Hanson @OAFCbazza]

What a father's day present off my kids.
Memories for ever 🔵🟠🔵🟠 #oafc

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

GROOMING GANGS

For thirty years you have been fed this story in fragments. A trial in one town. A documentary about another. A review that named nobody. Lessons learned. Move on.

The fragments were survivable. That is why you only ever got fragments.

Rotherham was not a scandal. Rochdale was not a scandal. Telford was not a scandal. They were chapters of the same scandal, and nobody has ever been allowed to read it start to finish. Not the newspapers. Not Andy Burnham's assurance reviews. Not a seven year national inquiry.

So I am doing it. Twenty-eight days. The whole case, in order. The crimes. The men. The warnings they buried. The political bargain behind the silence. The retaliation against everyone who spoke. The whitewash. The survivors. The reckoning.

Act 1 is in 4 parts and was published this week. As with all my work, it is free. There is no paywall, because this has to be read by everyone. And for it to be read by everyone, I need your help sharing it. Please.

Start reading here. Act 2 will follow.

Part 1 sets out the crime.
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Children identified, targeted, raped and trafficked between towns, lured from care homes and dragged into cars outside school gates.

Part 2 gives the men their shape.
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Not lone offenders. Groups, known to each other, working the trades that supplied the access and the vehicles that supplied the movement.

Then came the warnings ignored in Part 3.
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In 1991 Birmingham did not publish Jesson’s report. In 2003 Ann Cryer carried mothers’ names to the police and to her own party and was called racist for it. In 2011 Andrew Norfolk put the pattern in a national newspaper.

Thirty years of warnings. Thirty years of burial.

Part 4 explains the bargain that allowed this to take place.
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A judge exposed electoral fraud in Birmingham that would disgrace a banana republic. Pickles recorded pressure inside some Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities and a state willing to look away out of over-sensitivity around ethnicity and religion. Casey found disproportionate political influence in Rotherham reaching into the taxi trade, and police describing councillor pushback when they discussed targeting particular drivers and families.

The bloc vote had leverage. The children did not.

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Over 10,000 of you will read what I publish for free every day.

That matters to me. I want this analysis to reach far beyond the people who can afford to pay. But producing this takes time, research, interviews, documents and complete independence from the institutions I am investigating.

That independence is funded by paid subscribers. Only a handful of readers upgraded this past week. That is not enough to sustain work on this scale.

I am not asking those who cannot afford it. Keep reading. Keep sharing. Help this reach the people who need to see it. But if you read this publication every day, value the work and can afford to support it, please upgrade now.

Do not leave it to somebody else.

Your paid subscription funds the campaign. It keeps the articles free for thousands of others. And it allows me to follow the evidence wherever it leads, without permission, compromise or fear.

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[Justin ROSE @JustinRose99]

First @McLarenF1 signed golf bag giveaway!!

Just RT for a chance to win it!!

I’ll pick one winner on Monday 17th September… 🍀

[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Blog. Done. ✅

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[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Blog. Done. ✅

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[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

💙 A day to remember. Four years ago today. #oafc

[Eddie Hearn @EddieHearn]

👀 😂

[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Weather Blog. Done. ✅

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[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Weather Blog. Done. ✅

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[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Blog. Done. ✅

It's a hot one.

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[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

Legend. #oafc

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

A modern-day Latics great 👑

💙 As he leaves following the end of his contract, we thank Joe for the unforgettable moments and the special history he helped create. #oafc

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

A literal robot just handed the referee the match ball ahead of the second half.

Just pack it in and call it a day. The game is well and truly gone.

[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Blog. Done. ✅

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[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Take it in! 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

England's players share another special Wonderwall moment with their fans after the game 🎶

#FifaWorldCup

[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

My Weekly Blog is here. ✅🥵

🔥 When will this #heatwave end?

⚡ Potential for some severe #thunderstorms.

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[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Blog. Done. ✅

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[Young Bob @YoungBobRB]

Someone has submitted footage of what happened. Look at how a gang of foreigners just randomly begin hitting and punching me.

This was the first incident. After that, I tried to retrieve my things, and they tried to attack me a second time. Then the police arrived.

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

🎶 He gets the Blues excited... #oafc

[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Blog. Done. #heatwave ✅

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[Oldham Weather @ChadWeather]

Weekly Blog. Done. ✅

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