Sir Keir Starmer is “as guilty as anyone” over British authorities’ failure to tackle grooming gangs, a former detective has claimed.
With a row exploding over Labour’s rejection of repeated requests for a Home Office-led inquiry into historic child abuse in Oldham, former Greater Manchester Police detective Maggie Oliver has said Starmer has questions to answer.
Oliver has called for a fresh and “totally independent” investigation into the decades of abuse of British girls by gangs in towns and cities across the country.
And in the face of fresh Tory calls for an Inquiry, the ex-GMP detective said Labour and the Conservatives were “equally to blame” for failing to get to grips with the scandal.
Maggie Oliver said Labour and the Conservatives were ‘equally to blame’ for failing to get to grips with the scandal
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She told the Daily Mail: “Keir Starmer, as the former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), is perhaps as guilty as anyone I know in where we find ourselves today.
“We all know what’s going on, but I don’t trust a single one of those who to date have been entrusted with keeping our children safe and prosecuting serial rapists.
“They’ve failed. Repeatedly. Knowingly. Criminally.”
As DPP, Starmer green-lit the first grooming gang prosecution in Rochdale in 2013 after warning that the perpetrators had evaded justice for years.
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Starmer has come under serious fire from across the Atlantic over the scandal this week
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He suggested that “an issue of ethnicity” coupled with a “lack of understanding” of the victims had led to a failure to prosecute previous cases, which included dropping a major case in the town in 2009, during his time as DPP.
Starmer has come under serious fire from across the Atlantic over the scandal this week after his party’s refusal to launch an Inquiry came to light.
Leading the row has been X owner and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk, who has said Starmer was “complicit” in the “worst mass crime in the history of Britain” and has shared posts calling on King Charles to dissolve Parliament.
Musk has also called for the imprisonment of Labour Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips – and though the party’s top brass have largely stayed silent on his comments, Wes Streeting addressed them directly on Friday.
Elon Musk has said Starmer was ‘complicit’ in the ‘worst mass crime in the history of Britain’
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“Some of the criticisms that Elon Musk has made, I think are misjudged and certainly misinformed,” Streeting told reporters.
“But we’re willing to work with Elon Musk,” he added.
“I think he’s got a big role to play with his social media platform to help us and other countries to tackle this serious issue.
“So if he wants to work with us, roll his sleeves up. We’d welcome that.”
A Labour spokesman said: “We will welcome and support an independent investigation commissioned by Oldham council which puts victims’ voices at its heart, following the examples of Telford and Rotherham.”