Member of Parliament for Heywood and Middleton, Chris Clarkson MP, has written to the Home Secretary urging her to seek the deportation of three members of the Rochdale grooming gang and asking for them to be stripped of their British citizenship. Mr Clarkson said:
“Yesterday the Home Secretary announced that the government will publish a paper into group-based child sexual exploitation in order to identify the characteristics of group-based offending and help deliver justice for victims.
“The paper, which will be published this year, will outline the insights gained from this work and focus on how agencies can learn lessons from the past to tackle group-based offending and safeguard vulnerable children.
“The Home Office also announced it will set up an external group of experts to review the research before its publication.
“This is a welcome step to give a measure of justice to those so badly let down by a system that was supposed to protect them.
“The issue of group-based child sexual exploitation has been stain on our community and I welcome this robust approach to ridding our country of these vile crimes and ensuring that victims are to recover.
“Last week, I wrote to the Home Secretary urging her to secure the deportation three of the men convicted in relation to the Rochdale grooming scandal and to ask that they be stripped of their British citizenship after it was reported that they had returned to the town.
“I look forward to working with the Home Secretary to make sure that the victims get the justice they deserve.”
Read Chris' letter to the Home Secretary here
