Prosecutor reveals how one teenage girl was grilled by 11 barristers for six days and called a liar - but refused to back down and laid bare the horror of Asian rape gangs

She told of underage girls being threatened and picked up in car parks and taken to houses across the town, where they would be passed around dozens of men.

In one case, a man in his 40s poured petrol on the head of a 14-year-old girl with learning difficulties and threatened to set her alight unless she performed a sex act on him.

In 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to pursue the cases in court, describing the girls as ‘not credible’.

Authorities who were supposed to protect them had judged the girls promiscuous teenagers who were making lifestyle choices by engaging in sexual activity with these men.

They brought me up to speed on Operation Span, an inquiry which had been launched by Greater Manchester Police following complaints from 47 girls that they had been raped by grooming gangs in Rochdale.

I watched the footage of a 15-year-old girl being questioned by police in 2008. She was the teenager the Prosecution Service had labelled not credible and would later become known as Girl A.

The look on her face as she spoke of being raped repeatedly by a gang of men was heart-rending.

Girl A appeared via video-link from a police station and was questioned by 11 barristers over a period of six days.

When she had been questioned by the ninth barrister, she finally lost her temper – much to the lawyer’s delight.

One journalist asked: ‘So what happened in 2009? Why was no one prosecuted then?’

David Cameron, the then-Prime Minister, called me, asking how widespread a problem the grooming gangs were. I told him it was a deep-rooted issue that we simply hadn’t been paying enough attention to nationwide.

I see your point. For me, it’s child rape gang jihadis.

Which of us worked as a headline writer and editor for 40+ years? Oh, right, that would be me.

In your latest version, "rape" is modifying "gang" and not, properly, the reverse. I understand your wanting to shoehorn that horrible concept in there, but you're going to have to choose if you want something

• immediately impactful and
• easily memorable.

To achieve this goal, the wording must be precise and fit together seamlessly in a way that doesn't need to be explained.

You need to choose between the "gang rape" concept, which can be done by any group of depraved persons, and the "rape jihad" concept, which in my estimation is more heinous because it conveys the fanaticism of evil acts based on religious fervor, which conveys the perpetrators' self-deluded illusion of righteousness, and also identifies the ideology from which this evil springs.

Once you have people's attention, they may pay attention to the rest of the sordid details, like "gang." But it's not always gang. It is, however, always under the excuses of the religion of peace—which is also the reason the police were too PC and too frightened to protect the native English girls.

its a british newspaper. in the UK “asian” means south-asian.

And hindus, christians, sikhs etc. from the subcontinent are angry that the newspapers are using the term “asian” instead of muslim.

Fun fact - hindus, christians, sikhs and parsis from the subcontinent are HEAVILY UNDERREPRESENTED IN PRISONS - close to 0% and the ones that ARE there are for white-collar crimes.

Muslims from the same ethnic/racial background are OVERREPRESENTED by 4 times in prisons.

Aryan Nation are hardly christian.

There are white groups in prison as well - the biggest being the Russians.

But among the Muslims they also have white and black converts to Islam - criminals there fall into Islam.

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